Allen Strand
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Look at the Wikipedia post on duotones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duotone or the Photoshop discussion on the same topic. Per Photoshop documentation
Duotones increase the tonal range of a grayscale image. Although a grayscale reproduction can display up to 256 levels of gray, a printing press can reproduce only about 50 levels of gray per ink. For this reason, a grayscale image printed with only black ink can look significantly coarser than the same image printed with two, three, or four inks, each individual ink reproducing up to 50 levels of gray.
My apologies if this is isn’t what you need.
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Some ideas that may not be be completely correct.
Duotone is a really nice tool. I am not certain how you will apply that to the blue and brown. You could consider a blue/black duotone and a brown/black duotone which would be three colors instead of four but that only leaves you two colors. You might then use the red/yellow combination to get red, yellow and orange instead of green.
Photoshop has nice documentation about duotones. I would look at the Photoshop documentation. Wikipedia has a nice example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duotone.
Adobe says you can mix spot and process colors in InDesign. I am not certain whether you can do that in Illustrator. I would look at the “lab values” area. You essentially need to specify an Illustrator spot color that ends up with different percentages on your five spot color plates. Photoshop will give you the percentages and hopefully the lab values will allow you to do this in Illustrator.
I hope this helps a bit.
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I may be off base — but many effects are done with masks. To make two tone fonts you can convert the fonts to outline. This creates a bunch of filled objects. You can then move the filled outlines to a black/white mask where it masks everything except the “filled” area of the font. Once that is done you can then draw anything you want on the lower layer which includes a two-tone gradient and that is what you will see.
Note: You may be able to move the font to a mask layer without converting to outlines.
Note: It has been a while since I tried this in Illustrator but I have done it numerous times in PhotoShop.
My apologies if I missed your question.
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Premier Pro has an excellent page that explains what I am talking about: Setting up, and bringing in assets -> Importing files -> Preparing still images.
Adobe says: Before you import a still image into Adobe Premiere Pro, prepare it as completely as possible to reduce rendering time. It’s usually easier and faster to prepare a file in its original application. Consider doing the following: ….
A note: Manufacturers like Adobe never like to put negative comments in their documents because their competition will use it against them. As such when I see a statement like the above, I take the suggestion seriously.
In my case I merged 160 pictures into a DVD that were all bigger than the 720×480 DVD. Most weren’t modified by Photoshop but some were.
I am suggesting you take one that isn’t working and use Photoshop to reduce the pixel size to be consistent with your video. Example — if you are using a 1280/720 720P video then there is no reason for an image bigger than 1280/720 unless you are zooming and panning the image.
Don’t go crazy though 🙂 Try one and if it works try re-importing the original. You may find something else is broken, like a zero opacity setting, but this extra work is better than not getting your project done.
Good luck.
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Changing pixel aspect is done in several places. The forums have many excellent articles that explain the various pixels ratios so I won’t try and duplicate that information here because I will probably get it wrong.
I am proposing the Export -> Adobe Media Encoder.
- Select MPEG1
- Make certain to select frame width and height in pixels.
- Just below the frame width and height in pixels is the aspect ratio.
If your end product is a MPEG for something like pro-presenter you aren’t confined to the funky DVD resolution of 720×480 pixels. As long as the MP1 encoder allows larger numbers you could set the project size to more closely match the MacBook or PC screen resolution. You will need to try several values and codecs until you get one that you like.
The other place to set aspect is in the interpret footage command.
The aspect ratio needs to be carefully set or you will have people that are too fat or too thin.
Make sense? Good luck.
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Does Premier still see the videos? If the videos are truly missing and you restart Premier the software should ask you for the video file locations.
Encore can overwrite files like the DVD ISO file but but it will ask you for permission.
What Encore output are you creating i.e. DVD, DVD ISO, DVD Folder? Be fore warned that DVD Folder output should only be used for Encore generated files. Do not place anything in the specified “DVD folder” that you don’t want deleted. The first step in DVD Folder creation is to remove everthing under the folder. So incorreclty pointing the DVD Folder to the wrong location could have disasterous results.
Allen Strand
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Charles,
Yes there is a measuring tool but that is the hard way to do this. I would setup a grid and then set snap to grid.
Type “measure” in the help system to see the picture of the tool. If you click and hold on top of the eye dropper tool you will see the measuring tool.
Good luck.
Allen Strand
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Michael,
Have you tried creating a new timeline? You can specify the value during creation but once you have associated a video with the timeline the 4:3/16:9 seems to get greyed out. Once the timeline is created wtih a 16:9 I would then assocated a video with the sequence and see if it magically goes back to 4:3 or gives you an error.
Does Premier tell you the video is a 16:9 video? I had to change the pixel aspect size to match the standard before I got Premier to think the video was a 16:9 video. Once I did that all worked fine in Encore until I tried to create both a 4:3 and 16:9 sequence in the same DVD.
Good luck.
Allen Strand
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Your problem may be different from the original post. Import only makes a pointer to the file not a copy so if you remove the media they will disappear. Premier should complain when you start it up that the files are missing.
Re: the original post: I just did a video with 160 stills and it worked flawlessly. I did get caught one time when the track wasn’t selected when I rendered the track. I would check the opacity and position of the stills. I accidentally got a few stills set to opacity of 0% which made them disappear.
I would convert the high-res images that aren’t working to a size compatible with the video as an aid to get your project working.
Good luck.
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Have you tried the MPEG1 format? Most software should accept MP1s. With the Adobe Media Encoder you can specify nearly any resolution. If you aren’t constrained to DVD distribution I would use higher than 720/480.
I built a simple 720/480 test using the titler without problems. Yes it dithers as expected to make the letters smooth but the overall effect looks nice.