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Would love to hear whether the new Premiere CS3 is up to scratch with HDV finally – in all aspects. Have always been baffled by people who used 2.0 saying it could edit HDV, but you can’t actually get it off any worthwhile cameras without using 3rd party software.
So when you get it, maybe tag your results on the end of this thread as I for one am certainly interested in regards to the HD100.
Alex
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Another thing is perspective. You need to match it as our brains will pick that up straight away and currently the speaker looks like we’re looking up at it and it’s 20m tall. Rotate it so it matches correctly. Also, there is no shadow giving you that harsh-unreal edge where the speaker sits on the pavement.
Add all this stuff together and you’ll get a lot closer.
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Even though I think they could use a motion control camera to replicate the camera move and then add the shake in post…I reckon for that show they just asked everyone to hold reaaaaaally still. 🙂
…except the ball of course…that’s cg (or fishing line, hehe)
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I’m adding a vote to eSATA. Firewire and USB is so 2005 🙂
Alex
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Basically it could be a whole host of settings only stored with your older user name that has been “corrupted” or changed by another program affecting PPro. This could be a registry edit or something written into the many control files inside “Local Settings”/”Application Data” directories.
It could take some time to find this as you can see, there is a whole bunch of things that could have been screwed…at least it shows it’s not an install problem on software intself, or a hardware issue.
How attached are you to your old profile? 😉 Might be quicker to migrate to the new one. Otherwise it’s lenthy trials with regedit and looking at files.
Alex
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Create a new user profile under XP and log in with that and see if it happens. Also try safe-mode and see if you can get into Premiere and use menus. Have you added any recent patches from MS or updated video drivers?
Alex
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There’s a lot that come into play with this sort of work and without seeing the results you are getting it’s difficult to offer accurate advice. One trick you could try is to Remove Noise from the archive footage, comp on the greenscreen, then re-apply noise across the entire scene. This will help the noise blend in without shifting patterns right on the edge of the greenscreen component.
Light-wrapping is important as well as matching lighting for the scene. As far as movement goes, check the blur on the characters of the f900 and the old footage in a still. If it doesn’t match you might have to check out some products from Re:Vision to blur the motion more/less.
Other than that, it’s just fiddling like you have been doing – also, get someone else to look at it. I find doing this work I’m never happy with the comp because I KNOW it’s a comp. 😉
Alex
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Is the camera moving/panning or is it a locked off shot?
Locked off is a lot easier as you could use Trapecode Particular with the emitter glued to the rear lights or mask out the brakelights in a precomp and then use the echo filter to make them streak across the screen. From there it’s just blurring and glowing.
Moving shot…different ball game as you also have to have the streaks left behind move with the camera.
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Hehe this is crazy but quite enjoyable to read. I wish I had this sort of time 😉
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From memory quicktime doesn’t honour aspect ratios. If you have a widescreen comp with non-square pixels it’ll just play them as square pixels. The assumption is that when you convert to MPEG and stick it on DVD as widescreen, it will stretch it for you.
If this is for PC playback, then you need to stick your comp into a PAL widescreen SQUARE PIXEL composition and render again. Square pixel PAL comps are 1024×576. Quicktime will show you that as widescreen.
Hope that makes sense…it’s late 🙂
Alex
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