[Alan Balch]

Hi Ty, clearly I need to do a better job calculating my square feet! Sorry for the confusion. My room is 10’ wide by 20’ long with a 10’ high ceiling. I’ll check out your reccomendation.

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

[Bruce Watson] “Since it’s a fairly small room, I’d probably start out with more absorption panels.”

I think those absorption panels sound like the best idea, as because of the room size, I’m trying to keep stuff off of the floor.

My room is appx 800 sq ft. so I suppose the next question is how many absorption panels to purchase and then where to place them once in the room. If you can offer any suggestions on that, it would also be most helpful.

Many thanks!

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

[Ty Ford] “I have stopped being amazed at the succinctness with which Bruce Watson can convey the hard facts in such an easy way. Yay, Bruce!
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This is why I visit Creative Cow so often, Ty. Thanks for your work on here!

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

[Bruce Watson] “So first thing, decide what you’re trying to do (sound proofing or sound treatments). Then decide how much needs to be done, and what your budget is. If it’s not your “video studio” then find out what you’re actually allowed to do to it.”

Bruce, this has been very helpful. Thank you for your input. As you can tell, I am writing this post from an abundance of ignorance in this process so thanks for giving it to me straight.

To answer your questions above, sound treatments seem like my best option as sound proofing the room will not be possible as it’s not my own space.

Deciding how much needs to be done is the next step, that is really the crux of my question. From the reading the excellent source you provided from https://www.asc-studio-acoustics.com/products/ I think that LENRD bass traps along with studio foam wedge might work in at least dampening the echos in the room. My reason for this line of thought is my studio will be used only for recording interviews on camera, so there won’t be any music mixing or live performances. From what I read about bass traps they are the first step in addressing resonant frequencies. Furthermore, because the room has no parculier angels to it such as vaulted ceilings or odd shaped walls I think these bass traps will help.

[Bruce Watson] ” Neither of these things involve just throwing some sort of “sound proofing foam” at it, in some sort of quantity, and you’re done. Both are a lot more work than that.”

Thanks again for this reminder, that getting quality sound is not an easy process. That’s gotta be a common mistake for those of us who are trying to learn. I’d appreciate you feedback on this process as I move forward.

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

[Dave LaRonde] “There’s AE’s old standby point motion tracker, “

What I’d like to do is add some text to a box that turns toward my camera for a few seconds then stops. It’s not to complicated and I suspect that AE’s point motion tracker will suit my needs, so I guess that’s what my question is. Do you know of a good tutorial for motion point tracking?

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

Hi Paul, I’ve experienced a similar frustration in Media Browser myself and usually use File>Import if I know where something is. Regarding your question about missing media, if I read correctly you need to find a solution better than clicking on each individual file to find the media. If this is the case, you ought to get a warning message each time you open PPro that says something like “Missing media for these clips…” along with a window. You can look for one file, and if they’re near by one another, PPro can usually find all of them for you.

Hope that helps!

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

Hi Jeff,
That worked, thanks. The other option I was thinking is to simply turn off layers upon exporting and save as a copy. By doing that, I believe the file comes over still as a .psd but without the separate layers.

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

Thanks, Michael.
I’m not sure what happened with the example I posted but I was able to get some help from one of the graphic designers I work with. I’ll remember the sequence layers command in AE.

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

Problem solved. It was my naming structure that was all off. I did a batch re-name and it works!

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com

[Alan Balch]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “You should start with a general search, Googling what you’re trying to find, rather than starting with specific sources.”

Hi Mr. Bourke, yup. That fixed it. Thanks so much, story of my life…. making things more difficult than they need to be.

Have a great day!

Alan Balch
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Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com