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Paper Diamonds posted:Is there any recommended program for converting .mov files to .mp4? I downloaded the free trial of Adobe After Effects but it doesn't like .mov files. A quick google shows a ton of converters but most want money and the free ones look like viruses. AE works just fine with mov files... What problem are you encountering? As far as free converters... Use handbrake.
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powderific posted:I'm starting to play with some motion tracking stuff in After Effects and I'm curious as to what governs its performance. It seems to take forever, but looking at activity monitor my CPU is barely spiking at all. I'm on an quad core i7 MBP with 8 gigs of RAM, working off of a FW800 drive. Could the FW800 connection be slowing it down somehow? Huh. I did some emergency motion tracking on a Best Buy laptop (Lenovo with 6 gigs of RAM and some blah mobile i3 processor) a few weeks ago and it flew through it. 720p footage, tracking about 20 to 30 seconds worth of footage.
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Looks like Bunim/Murray is dropping FCP in lieu of Avid. Interesting. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/04/reality-tv-producer-bunimmurray-drops-final-cut-for-avid/
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Peacebone posted:Question: It is ....ridiculously low ball.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Yo. A little bit of Avid help, if you please. I'm sorry I can't help you, but on the subject of Avid importing. Is it possible to link multiple AMA files at once? I can't figure it out.
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Is there some sort of channel other than eBay to sell production equipment? We just closed down our Tampa facility and have tons of rack mounted equipment. They were a post/finishing/editing facility so it's all decks and smoke (2009 not upgraded) and other stuff. The most expensive piece being an HDCam deck.
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Apr 13, 2012 22:55
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Moon Potato posted:It's probably worth posting your inventory on DVXUser and seeing if anyone's interested. Hey thanks!
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Apr 13, 2012 23:48
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Mozzie posted:Does anyone recommend how to convert a premiere project file's assets into dpx or a tiff image sequence? I currently have a project in muxed cineform but I want to generate either dpx or tiff for discrete left and right eyes for working in after effects? Because cineform 3D is poo poo, half the time when I switch eyes in neoplayer it refuses to refresh in after effects without clearing the cache completely) I'm not exactly sure what you're doing, but After Effects exports to DPX and Tiff sequences.
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bassguitarhero posted:
Yeah this was gonna be my main suggestion. Easy those frames in and out! F9 sets to ease in/out but you can also go through and set to just ease the "in" or just ease the "out." Under "Animation -> Keyframe Assistant" you should see some more options.
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May 19, 2012 18:10
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I have an After Effects question. I'm doing a favor for a friend and it' s sky replacement/building cutout. Basically we have a nice angular building in the foreground and a parking garage hotel in the background. I need to cut out the hotel/parking garage. Typically I'd just do this with a mask but it's proving difficult as gently caress for some reason. No matter what I do the mask always seems to bobble a frame behind. I suspect it's just the camera move having micro bobbles or something. Either way it's preventing me from efficiently cutting out the buildings. I was wondering if there is some other trick I'm missing. Since the shape in front (that I want to keep) is very distinct and angular it's pretty easy to make an accurate mask of. Is there a way to just say "ok I made this mask one time...now track this mask to the building" or something like that? It seems like something that can automatically track the outline would be nicer than having to manually adjust the loving mask. Does Mocha help with this?
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May 22, 2012 21:47
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RaoulDuke12 posted:You're making the building shaped mask on the sky layer, correct? Sorry I may have misstated what I needed. We have a long jib shot of a building with two buildings in the background. I want the back two buildings removed. So I've masked the building I want to keep out. And tried to manually animate the mask to match the building through the shot. But it's a large move with a full tilt that changes the perspective a bit. So animating the mask around the building is proving tough. I'm not having trouble matching the sky to the back...just getting a clean mask around the building that doesn't bobble around during the move. I'm messing around with Mocha right at the moment.
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May 22, 2012 23:06
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buttopticor posted:I got no response from the Windows Software thread, and even though this isn't really the level of editing generally discussed here, I figured people here would either know or be able to direct me to a more appropriate thread. Windows Movie Maker?
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mayodreams posted:I am not an editor, so I don't want to post any bad info. I do, however, support video editing and 3D graphics from an IT standpoint. The 3D boxes I built for my consulting client are dual socket Xeons, with 6 cores a pop, 48Gb of ram, and a Geforce GTX 580. The 6 series GF cards (Kepler) on the market do not have the compute performance of the older Fermi (4xx and 5xx) cards, which is why you saw benchmarks suggesting that. IIRC, Nvidia lowered the clockrate and doubled the CUDA cores on the 6 series, so its about a wash or a bit slower than a 580. Big Kepler isn't out yet, and might only be in Quadro/Tesla cards that are due later this year. Interested to know why you go with a GeForce card instead of a Quadro card when you're outfitting your guys with Xeons and 48gigs of RAM. And I'm not phrasing that sarcastically...I'm actually interested as it's something unique to a situation that I'm about to run into.
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Sep 3, 2012 05:41
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Yuns posted:Premiere Pro CS6 claims its an unsupported format or damaged file when I try to import it into a project. Sony Vegas Pro and Davinci Resolve don't work on the file either. BUT After Effects digests and plays the file just fine. They just need to combine PP and AE into some sort of super program already. AE ingests anything I throw at it and obviously has superior anim/motion graphic capabilities, but severely lacks any basic editing capabilities that PP has like, oh I don't know, loving real time playback? I get it ... two different programs for relatively different purposes, but they're used hand in hand so much why not combine them? And seriously why can't I get any loving realtime play back in AE? gently caress.
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1st AD posted:Pro Tools is the best. Ha this is me whenever I sit down at an Avid (I use Premiere primarily, but at work we use Avid). It's better in the newer versions, but until we upgraded it was mostly me sitting there going "drag it onto the track. Drag it onto drat track. Goddamnit just drag onto the track why the gently caress can't I just grab this clip and put it there Jesus Christ!"
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Sep 29, 2012 21:15
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Also Adobe Prelude, which I've only just started using to log and ingest clips, has a nice commenting/tagging/subclipping system that carries over seamlessly to Premiere when you get ready to edit. Here's a screen shot of the short I'm editing...you can see where I made a comment (the green line on the clips in the timeline) in Prelude. This is from Premiere though. When I brought it in the clips automatically carried their comments with it which is nice. Because I'd look back and go "oh poo poo I totally forgot you can see the camera in the reflection in this shot!" 
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BeavisNuke posted:+1 for Adobe Prelude. I love that thing. It lets you pick out the best clips from long interviews so much faster than listening to them in Premiere. I was trying to convince a wedding editor that he wouldn't need to hire a rough cut editor if he had that software but he wouldn't listen. And Hover Scrub is absolutely amazing. Just move the mouse left to right over clips in your bin and their thumbnails scrub through the clips. So so useful for long shots.
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Oct 2, 2012 16:13
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Ziploc posted:You guys might hate this question. What program are you using? After Effects, for example, has a ton of different text animation presets that come with it by default. Type in by character, word, whatever. You essentially add the preset to the type layer then adjust the Animation Range field to time it out like you want it.
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amitlu posted:Total beginner question here, but can someone tell me what the name of the effect is that creates the outer edge highlighting in this video on the superimposed hand in the foreground? It really depends on your program as to what you'd use to create that effect (and therefore what it might be called specific to that program), but generally I'd call that a "stroke." And it has a drop shadow applied with hard edges.
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amitlu posted:I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements 11. It doesn't seem to have a 'stroke' effect but I have found the drop shadow and have been messing around with that. I can't figure out how to make it go in every direction instead of just one though, to highlight something instead of give the 3d shadow effect. For a drop shadow, you'll want to find the distance parameter and make it zero. Not sure if that's available in Premiere Elements though. If there's no stroke effect in PE, you can maybe try to duplicate the layer, scale the bottom layer up a tad, and then take it's contrast/brightness all the way down. So you have a darker version of the same layer (thus making the same movements) that sort of fakes a stroke effect. Only thing is it won't be equa-distant in every direction. It's definitely a poor man's effect.
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amitlu posted:I couldn't get the drop shadow to work right but I achieved the effect I was looking for with the 'glow' effect and messing around with some of the sliders. I also tried using a duplicate layer like you suggested and although that doesn't look quite right I understand better how these layers work and their priority. Thanks for your help! Ah yeah the glow. I actually use that in After Effects a lot to get a good stroke from time to time.
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KasioDiscoRock posted:Can anyone help me out with some information about colour correction services? Here's the link to DaVinci Resolve: http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve It's a great program, starts at a grand, but the control surfaces are what can get expensive. Avid offers some of their own control surfaces too, and when we built our Avid suite a few months back they were actually quite a bit cheaper. http://www.avid.com/US/products/Artist-Color Another option is that if you're toying with adding a color correction suite to your services, why not go whole hog and add editing as well. If you're losing business JUST because of Coloring, then I'd not bother, but odds are the "video" part of companies that offer audio/video services also includes editing so that might be something you want to look at. In that case you can aim at an Avid system with Artist Color mixer and tack on DaVinci Resolve or use the new Avid MC Coloring system which is not as robust as DaVinci, but still pretty strong. Either way, you'll still need the calibrated HDTV and monitors that Chitin mentioned.
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A smug sociopath posted:Does anyone here have any experience with using Neat Video? I'm in need of a noise removal plugin for Premiere, and about to pull the trigger on it, but I'd like to know if there are any complaints/limitations on it, or if there are any competent alternatives. I've had good luck with RE:Vision Effects DE:Noise.
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I'd use Premiere... just in case. I think there's a shift away from FCP into Premiere (and even back into Avid to an extent), so might as well learn what people will be using. It's not going to make it or break it though. Just learning the skills and pipeline management of NLE's in general will help you out.
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May 23, 2013 20:47
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BeavisNuke posted:Have you guys tried the pancake timeline method in Premiere? It's pretty neat. Supposedly Fincher's editors for the social network and girl with the dragon tattoo used it. This is a great article and it's just generally loving awesome that we can do all of that within one suite of software, on a DIY machine sitting in your home office.
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1st AD posted:I've had a weird problem exporting to ProRes in Resolve - random frames will be rendered with posterization and a seemingly reduced color palette. The DNG's don't have these issues and I don't see them in Resolve during playback. This is rendering with a custom LUT with a Macbook Pro - the first-generation Thunderbolt model. Not sure if it's related at all, but what kind of HDD are you rendering to? I've encountered a shitload of rendering problems lately going from AE, Premier or AME. It was giving me some weird rendering artifacts on certain frames. Turns out I was rendering to an HDD that apparently was starting to fail or "get really slow" ... and that's what was introducing the artifacts. Switched to render to a local SSD and the problem vanished. This was primarily for Avid DNxHD and Animation codecs.
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1st AD posted:I'm rendering to a G-RAID Thunderbolt drive array, so just a pair of 7200 rpm SATA drives. I mean a Thunderbolt array should be fast enough. Only thing I can think of is a drive I/O problem or something. Do you have an SSD or something fast you can render to as a test?
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1st AD posted:You want to know what's the worst post-workflow ever? The gently caress? Who is doing an image sequence grade in Lightroom?
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1st AD posted:Just the one with the dad and kids - simple setup too, just blasted 3 LED lights towards the wall that's off screen/camera left and put a gigantic scrim in front of that mess, used another scrim to bounce some of that light towards camera right). It looks great! What kind of LED lights do you use? Also, different topic, I won a Zacuto Marauder from those guys and it came in the other day. For the love of God, for how expensive that stuff is you'd think there'd be at least SOME packaging. Nope...just product wrapped in bubble wrap in a cardboard box. It is sturdy as poo poo though.
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Moon Potato posted:Just a heads up - the latest update to Premiere CS6 can do this to your existing projects: Don't see the problem there... looks awesome. You are making the new Radiohead video yeah?
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Yip Yips posted:But I'm perpetually in the middle of at least one project If we see a big update coming, we'll actually schedule a day or two for it on our Post calendar so that nothing can get booked during that time.
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1st AD posted:Can't be worse than Final Cut 2 inexplicably quitting and forcing a reboot on OS9 systems because it ran out of memory, giving you no warning or prompting beforehand which meant if you weren't diligent about saving every minute you'd be screwed Avid Media Composer 5 did the same damned thing just recently. Huge memory leak problem.
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This is probably a long shot, but any way to set up a basic batch script that will jump ahead a certain amount of frames and print screen/screenshot it?
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Dillbag posted:Videocopilot.net has some good, free basic training. And their plugins and assets packs are loving ridiculously cheap for what you get.
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thehustler posted:Quick After Effects question: Instead of shifting the elements inside the comp A why not just shift the comp A itself on the timeline?
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1st AD posted:Holy crap did they raise the price? Iirc it used to be $100 for the full version. I don't know, but Rode has a sort of long standing deal where you get it free with the purchases of the VideoMic Pro http://www.rodemic.com/pluraleyes
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Fredski posted:This is the finished video for the major project I was discussing earlier - feel free to question, comment and/or criticize, keen to hear all feedback. My first kneejerk responses are "why is the Robot's voice and the VO guy's voice the same?" and "the robot is lit way too brightly in the scene where he's looking at the painting considering he's standing in direct shadow."
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DammitJanet posted:What a lovely thread to find! Ha well it's a combination of the plugins being really awesome and REALLY loving affordable and Andrew Kramer himself does a lot of secondary shot and title f/x work in the industry! But yeah like ten times a day I see a uniquely identifiable flare pro preset I've used before! Also we're hiring an animator and I'm perusing through demo reels and a ton of the have VCP tutorials in them!
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We did an intro logo animation for a production company and Technicolor is requesting the sequence in 10bit log DPX. I'm in After Effects and can export 10bit DPX just fine, but am unfamiliar with the appropriate way to export log DPX out of AE. Help! Is it as easy as just checking "logarithmic conversion?"
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Reverend Dr posted:
I always use Media Encoder. I just go to "Export to Adobe Media Encoder" from AE's menu. So when I say I export from AE, I mean I export from AME directly out of AE. Anyway I could never really figure out the best workflow (I tried to email both the editor on the project and the Technicolor DI guy...got zero response). Ended up using a Cineon Log converter effect in AE and going out to a 2K DPX File (without logarithmic selected in the exporter...just the Lin2Log converter in the AE effect) and that seemed to do the trick.
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