[Angelo Lorenzo]

I assume you’re using monitors with built-in speakers so it connects with a combo of DVI and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Are you using a sound card or the motherboard’s built in sound?

Have you tried other headphones or speakers and have they exhibited the same issue?

I doubt it’s directly related to Premiere Pro, as it sounds like it might be a grounding/shielding issue with how the sound is transmitted.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSd79b3ca3b623cac9-6a7330b81235841ab3b-8000.html

You need to import P2 media via the Media Browser panel. This will properly link in spanned clips (single video clips made up of multiple files) and the audio associated with the video as well.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Hi Jos,

Again, I had no problem that could be attributed to a bug or issue while using the arrow or pen cursor. I do notice a bit of a jump, but again it’s from me not picking the pen up straight from the tablet surface.

I switched the tablet into “Precision Mode” (a programmable Wacom function that maps the entire tablet to one small section around your cursor) and suffered no issue whatsoever.

And some more info I didn’t include last time:
Windows 7
Driver v6.2.0w5

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It’s hard to say. AE is the low man on the totem pole, so chances are it’ll be a “fundamentals” program before stepping up to something like Maya, or a compositor like Nuke.

It also depends on if you want more of a trade school or a university education. Art Center has a fantastic Entertainment Design program (their 3D courses are really built on the strength that the school is the TOP car design school in the world).

If you want a super quick rundown course then UCLA offers a 12 week visual effects extension course.

It also depends on what you want to do in the future. do you want a 3d or illustration degree so you can step into a post house, or are you beefing up your skills to freelance on indie films and commercials?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

For Avid DNxHD, it’s still Avid’s codec… it’s just Adobe’s front end. There aren’t any non-licensed flavor of Avid’s codec so I don’t think it’s really worth sending it to a third party encoder for that particular codec.

I will say this: The codec only has preset choices, but it seems to be framerate/interlacing agnostic. I would pick the size that matches your video, and the number is the bitrate in megabits (Avid DNxHD 220 is 220mbits).

In terms of having a powerhouse encoding solution, I like Sorenson Squeeze since it interfaces with Premiere so well (it pops up as a preset, but Squeeze takes over the entire encoding engine, no need for an intermediate uncompressed file). At $1,000 it’s pricy unless you work with broadcast/DVD/Blu Ray clients often.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’ve been doing some restoration work on animation provided on DVD (quality was high enough not to have the client ship me all their Beta tapes from Japan) and I’ve been using the following (on Windows):

1. Slysoft AnyDVD to bypass encryption and, in my case, region code.
2. XMedia Recode to rip the DVD, or chapters (site is in german, but the program is in English). A caveat about the program is you need to go to the chapters tab and clear all the chapter markers… these will get embedded into the file (MOV container) and Premiere will think it’s a corrupt file.

Legal caveat: I have permission from the copyright holders to do this (they hired me) and I don’t condone ripping copyrighted DVDs.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It’s reasonable to assume it’s shot on super35 since it was a big budget film. With that in mind, an 85mm lens gives a working distance of 6ft which is nice for a dolly. Alternately, a 100mm lens at 7’6″ could be an alternative. Both have been calculated with pCam for iPhone.

Regardless, they’re both guesses as there really isn’t a good depth cue for subject/background and so on.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’d lean more towards image sequences like DPX or TIFF. Nice think is at least TIFF can be color managed and if there is a render error, you only kill one frame and not the entire video if you were going out to, say, Quicktime.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

For size, ease of use, and ease of transport, I would probably do Avid DNxHD 220 or 185 (once the codec is installed, it’s a codec under the MOV container when you export). You’re at your final step, and the quality is high enough to where you won’t experience visual loss.

https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/en372311 (free codec download)

ProRes HQ is another choice, if you have it…. but for this workflow it’s effectively the same thing unless the post house prefers it.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

And you’re editing the keyframes in the timeline, to be clear?

I’m using:
PPro CS5.5
Wacom Intous4 with recent drivers (if not the most recent, then probably only one version behind)

I didn’t see any issues. There is, however, a bit of a movement if I’m not conscience to make sure I lift my pen straight up, but it responded with accuracy.

Maybe increasing your Tip Feel to firm will help.