[Aaron O’neil]

Yeah, I thought about using after effects. I’ve finished the video now. I just made the gigantic video background and nested it in a new sequence. Was quite quick and easy, and worked quite well. But thanks for the tip

[Aaron O’neil]

Hi, thanks for the reply

What I’m currently doing is just making the massive resolution video. It will take several hours to render (about 6) but that’s something I can do over night. I was then thinking of just importing it into a standard sized sequence and using the scale and motion effects. It appears to be the fastest and easiest way to get this done. I believe that the problem I’ve been having with the video’s not staying in their grid was due to the acceleration applied by premiere on the motion I was doing.

Thanks for the tip about only having only the visible videos on the sequence, I’d be wanting to keep the videos to a maximum of 90% scale to keep the feel of the grid going through the whole vid. But that means I can usually remove 7-9 clips from the timeline. Thanks again 🙂

[Aaron O’neil]

PROBLEM SOLVED

It was the ATI Sata/RAID Driver that was causing the issue. I had moved to motherboard raid as I had thought that my RAID card was dead (which was really a symptom of my previous motherboard dying). With the RAID running off a dedicated card, Premiere (and the other programs) started up first time with no worries.

Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it, helped me narrow down the problem

Thanks again

Aaron

[Aaron O’neil]

Hey, I’d say Jeff has got the right idea.

I regularly use powerpoint with 16:9 aspect ratio, and often enough at HD resolution. You do this by adjusting the “Page Setup Options” and changing the page size. I think it only uses distances, not resolution, but that might be different in 2007 (I haven’t had to check that till now, to be honest). But if it doesn’t use resolutions. I find that 24cm long and 13.5 will usually give you a good high res 16:9 image. Basically, the length has to be 1.78 times longer than the height, and you’ll be fine.

As for the editting question. Finish your project in 16:9 HD and export it. Then, (assuming you’re using premiere) you can choose to open a new project, and customise the settings. I find that tweaking the “DV PAL” (Or DV NTSC if you’re in an NTSC region) option is usually the easiest. You’d want to set the resolution to 1440×1080, and change the framerate to about 60 (these options should be pretty easy to find, although let me know if you can’t)

Best of Luck 🙂

[Aaron O’neil]

Hi, I tried going back to Catalyst 9.6 (I know that this driver worked as I used premiere with it a few days before all this started happening), and unfortunately no luck. I did try the new account with all privileges but couldn’t get it to work either. I’m thinking I might re-do all my drivers back to my previous set.

[Aaron O’neil]

G’day Captain,

I’ve done quite a few shoots like this (usually four to five cameras) but live mixing. Are the cameras static? Or are you going to have operators. If you have operators, I’d suggest that you have at least one camera always following the lead singer or person on a mid-shot (Head to waist) for the entire shoot, that’s a safety shot so you always have something you can go to during your edit. As for the others, get creative, make sure if they have operators, that they’re familiar with the songs that you’ll be playing so that they know what instrument comes in where, ie, if there’s a guitar solo, you’d want to see a shot of the guitar, right?
So for operated cameras:
Have at least one camera following the lead on a mid-shot
Have the operators know the songs, and let them get creative 🙂 I’ve seen some whicked shots just made up on the fly.

If the camera’s are going to be locked off on tripods, then have one pointed at the lead (like before), and one more on a wide shot of the whole band, and then the others on feature instruments (and players depending on the style of shoot.

As for the editing and syncing up. I’d see that the best way to do that would be to have all the cameras recording all the time, that way, it’d be easier to sync them up. I’ve done this before as well. I started all the cameras recording at about the same time, and you can see when everything starts up pretty easily (Have a visual or audio cue, such as waving a hand or the band beginning to play, something that you won’t miss when playing the video back).

If I’ve missed anything or if you want to know anything else, let me know

Hope it’s been helpful, good luck with the record and the shoot.

Aaron

[Aaron O’neil]

Hey, thanks for the reply,

Yeah, I also had CS3 working on that machine beautifully for quite a while (Around a year).

I’m not sure it could be called a video problem, because it happens with ALL CS3 products (Encore, After Effects, Photoshop, Soundbooth, Flash, ect.), not just premiere, And the programs themselves just don’t start up

When the hardware problems hit and I re-installed vista was when I also upgraded my graphics driver. So I might roll back and see if that caused it, although I haven’t found anything relating to that in my searches.

Thanks, I’ll let you know how it goes. when I get back to it.

[Aaron O’neil]

It’s all good now, I found a program that will convert the MPEG files with the surround sound as well as ripping direct from DVD. It can also batch convert files. It’s called HandBrake. But Thanks heaps for your help on this one.

[Aaron O’neil]

you wouldn’t happen to know a good program that can do it?