Andrew Yoole
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Which means about 107 days until I’m game to install it on any of my work machines!
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You can get a Duotone effect using Adjust/Hue-Saturation.
If you upgrade to 6.5 you’ll get CC Toner, a three-colour tinter that works like a Tritone setup.
If you have access to Chris and Trish Meyer’s Creating Motion Graphics books (and anyone serious about using AE should own both of them) the cover CD on one of ’em includes a similar 3 colour tint plugin from Boris FX.
Trapcode Shine can work as a great 3 or 5 colour tint plugin. Just turn the Ray Length and Light Boost parameters to 0.
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If you have AE6.5, CC Film Burn
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MPEG2 is a temporal compression format that is not ideal for video editing – hence the “jerky” results you’re seeing. There are plenty of video utilities that will convert MPEG2 to Quicktime or similar formats for editing. Quicktime Pro (it costs about 39 bucks and is well worth it) is one example, though I’m sure there are freeware tools if you feel like searching. Virtual Dub is a PC freeware tool that I know of, but there are bound to be plenty more around.
Ideally, you should convert your MPEG2 file to an uncompressed format (like Quicktime Animation 100% or a None-compressed AVI) to avoid re-compressing your pictures until the final output stage.
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Everything for installation is on one disk. A DVD with demo Total Training material is usually included as well.
Unless you are actually purchasing the license for the software (check the activation code with Adobe Customer Support before your final payment) then you are wasting your money.
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You can record an Action in Photoshop (list of tasks to be performed) and then use the Automate function to apply that Action to multiple images.
Simple example: You want to apply the Photoshop Cutout filter to a piece of video.
1. Export your video clip from AE or Premiere etc as an image sequence, stored in an appropriately labelled folder.
2. Open the first frame in Photoshop. Create a New Action, give it a name and leave it in Record mode. Apply the Cutout filter, save the pic and close it. Stop the Action recorder.
3. Use File/Automate/Batch to apply the new Action to the folder with all the images in it.
4. Reimport the image sequence to your NLE or AE for playback. -
With any of the uncompressed 10bit cards on the market (Blackmagic Decklink, Kona etc) you can output uncompressed material to Digi Beta over SDI. You’ll need fast hard drives to give you sustained data throughput for uncompressed playback.
https://www.blackmagic-design.com