Angelo Lorenzo
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Who interacts with the menu? The customers or the guy running the display? Do you want the menu visible on screen or do your clients want some kind of control software?
Beyonnd DVD, there is Bluray of course, or software made specifically for live video control (that’s a bit of a blindspot for me so I don’t have a strong recommendation).
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What does the error message say? I usually get them if my default fps settings in the settings tab weren’t properly prepped to accept the EDL/Footage I’m about to drop in.
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Chances are, yes it’s a RAM issue with multiprocessing. You may just have to disable it OR you can try the following:
1. Hold down shift while opening edit > preferences > general
2. On the left, select “Secret”
3. Try disabling Layer cache and set the project to purge every 1 frame. (adjust to taste, if it helps processing speed)
It may or may not work for you. If it does work, send Adobe a bug report since this menu isn’t suppose to be used; After Effects should be handling workloads better. https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/04/send-feedback-about-after-effe.html
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It depends on your workflow, if you like “episodes” in separate projects, go for it, or if you can handle them all in one project even better. Different strokes for different folks.
If you’re using separate projects and using Premiere’s titler, why don’t you create a brand new project where all it has is a title crawl, then you can import that project into your actual video projects as needed? It would probably take up far less space than rendering out a video file with alpha. As long as you don’t have to go cross NLE with Avid or Final Cut, it seems like a sensible answer.
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First thing is first, what is your delivery format? That pretty much dictates how you’ll deal with mixed footage.
The second option, and less ideal, is to edit in the format of your highest quality video and then conform to delivered files from there.
I would make a point of telling your client that you cant guarantee 100% quality… sounds like they’re digging into archived material or stock footage of mixed quality. Let them know the trade offs of letterboxing vs scaling some of the smaller clips and so on. A client who knows the issues up front thinks you’re well prepared, tell them too far in and it makes you sound like you’re covering your butt.
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Yes, in Premiere you can nest a sequence in another. It’s not called pre-comping but that’s what it is; nesting.
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Edit > Preferences > General, check “Default Scale to Frame Size”
For what you’ve editing so far, scale back to 100% and right click the clip in the timeline and select “Scale to frame size” per clip.
These settings will scale the long end of your footage. In most situations you’ll end up with shadowboxes when going from HD -> SD. If you want more of a full frame pan & scan thing, then yes you’ll have to scale and positing each clip manually.
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When in doubt, Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. You can actually search for commands in this panel.
It looks like Premiere doesn’t have an equivalent function, it’ll zoom onto whatever the CTI is on.
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Sound editing is a world of its own, and it’ll never be taught in a single forum post and there is contention between those in the know over the order of how some things should go.
With that being said, here we go:
– I agree with Brad, if you have Audition, use it. it will make the process 100x easier just because it’s a dedicated program. Cut in Premiere and once you have the edit locked, move to Audition. When you export, make sure to export with long handles, like 20-30 seconds in case you need to hunt around for a noise reduction sample.
– If you have the time, process each cut of dialog rather than full tracks or any other crazy combos. It’ll take longer than a quick job on the track but you can deal with issues much easier if they do arise.
– Run all dialog through a light peak compression. This will soften any ambient peaks that might affect how the audio is normalized, it shouldn’t affect the “meat” of the dialog. This is so when you do normalize a track, you don’t just gain 1db because it hits a peak that gets in the way.
– Normalize each audio track to something like -1db. At this point they probably won’t sound good in-sequence.
– Run any noise reduction, noise gate, or dialog compression/expansion effects as needed.
– Roughly adjust the volume of each clip. Dialog should, for the sake of mixing, fall around -12 to -6 db; this allows you to mix things that are louder than dialog (like explosions). If this were a deliverable, there are guidelines which are lower (I’ve had to submit to festivals where peak was -24db) but it’s better to normalize the mix down in the future than up. Mixing at -12 to -6 also allows headroom for music, because once you start adding music beds, you increase the overall level.
– EQ as needed. It sounds like you recorded all on-set so you probably don’t need to do drastic EQing to match ADR or anything.
– EQ will affect the levels of your audio so do a final levels mix.
– Go out and get some studio headphones. You can get a passable pair for about $40-50 at Sam Ash or Guitar Center. Check out your final mix on a few stereo systems though, as headphones are still no replacement for high end studio speakers in a room designed for sound mixing because a lot of low end frequencies are more felt than heard.
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My first guess, you have your color outline set to black, not set to none. Turn that off and see what you get.
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