[Albert Fung]

Sorry – I was kinda 1 step away from the solution w/o knowing it.

I simply noted the location where the joints stopped, duplicate then cut the spline into 2, and convert the remaining portion into joints. Then I just needed to parent the latter half joints to the former, and voila.

[Albert Fung]

On closer look in PPro, it does seem the footage is interlaced – I apologize for the confusion.

Does that mean that when QT, and PPro as well, mean 60 fields per second…? And I should read that as, this footage is 29.97 frames per second, interlaced, and recorded at 59.94 fields per second (2 fields per second, thus combining into one full frame per second)?

[Albert Fung]

Thanks for your quick reply!

So would I just select Quicktime, and set the compression to None? I always had the idea that the output file would be different from the original file…

[Albert Fung]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve read around that AE isn’t exactly the best compressor, and people say it’d be better to render out an uncompressed master version (Animation Codec with Quicktime, as you said), and then use 3rd party software (or maybe Adobe Media Encoder…?) to perform the compression later.

The problem with Quicktime though, at least with Windows machines, is that I constantly notice the washed-out look. When we played the .mp4 files back on a Windows machines, Quicktime player always displayed a slightly washed out, blue-overlaid image, while Windows Media Player played the file as it was seen on a Mac.

Albert

[Albert Fung]

Hey Anthony,

Yep, I should’ve posted my solution earlier…apologies.

First thing is to unplug your headphones. Then I went to AE Preferences, set the Default Device to ‘Built-In Output’, then you go to System Preferences, and make sure the output is set to Internal Speakers.

Now if you play sound in AE, it should come out of your box and not your display. Plug in your headphones, and the sound should come out there.

Let me know if it works alright.

Alb

[Albert Fung]

Thanks for the quick reply, and sorry for the lack of information.

I can hear audio in my computer’s speakers (though I think it’s actually from the Cinema Display rather than the Mac Pro box itself).

The system specs tells me it has something called Intel High Definition Audio…I believe my machine only has built-in audio, and no sound card of its own.

Neither do I have it connected to a video capture card, nor an audio mixing board. Just the Mac Pro box, connected to a LED Cinema Display.

Thanks!

[Albert Fung]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply. I took a look at the Project Manager export option, might just try that out.

I’m beginning to see what the problem is: At home I was using PPro CS4, and in the media browser, on the right column with the ‘View As’ set to AVCHD, CS4 displays all the separate clips, as I’ve organized them in the folder structure.

In CS5, instead it only displays a few clips, with some clips that include subsequent clips (e.g. 0002.MTS is one long clip that includes 0003.MTS and 0004.MTS, instead of three separate clips). The in/out points I set in CS4 are therefore inaccurate.

I wonder if there’s a way to have CS5 display separate clips, without joining them together…

Thanks again for your suggestion though, I’ll try it out once I remember to take my external HD back home…unlike today…

Albert

[Albert Fung]

Dear all,

I think I’ve found the problem is that Premiere reads some of my AVCHD files (in .MTS format) as joined files.

For example, when I shot footage for 3 hours, the camera I used automatically saved the footage into 4~5 different files, each having a 2.12 GB limit. When I look in the file directory, these are separate files, named 0001.MTS, 0002.MTS, 0003.MTS etc.

But when I import the files into PPro, only 0001.MTS shows up as a continuous clip that incorporates 0002.MTS and 0003.MTS etc. This wasn’t how I edited the files on my home iMac, and I’m having trouble teasing the clips apart.

Anyone else run into this problem before? I’d be most grateful if you could share your solution…

Alb