[Angelo Lorenzo]

What are your output settings? Are you on best or draft output? What codec and bitrate?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Beyond all of the other replies, if you want a more traditional 3-way color wheel, Magic Bullet Colorista has a free “light” version.

It’s a set of color wheels while the paid-for plugin has two sets of color wheels and some additional masking features.

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-colorista-free/

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Here is what I do in similar situations:

Shoot all 60p in the field

Import into the media bin in Premiere

I open a sequence at whatever your destination format will be (in your case, say 720p24)

At this point any footage you throw in the timeline will dropframe/frame blend to match 24p.

Now for the slowmotion…

If I want to use a clip, I copy/paste it in my media bin. This creates two instances: one I won’t adjust and another where I will right click and change the interpretation of the framerate (be liberal, anything less than the original 60 will be in slow mo, I like cranking it down to 30 or 24fps) and you can throw it in the timeline where Premiere will conform playback again.

As far as “best format” for youtube and vimeo, read their FAQ’s. I take their recommendation and up the bitrate an extra 10-20%

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Create a sequence, choose a Red preset, hit the Settings tab and adjust the width and height as you see fit.

By default, clips placed in a resized sequence will be cropped. If you right click them you can scale to frame size if you want to have shadow bars.

PPro presets are not set in stone.

Are you, in contrast, talking about shooting with a different pixel aspect ratio? In my experience I’ve only seen 1:1 (square) PARs from Reds.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Unfortunately Recuva is unable to recover files that have been directly overwritten with the same name.

That doesn’t mean the data is gone as you can never be sure Windows used the same sectors to write the new file to. Most programs, when overwriting a file do a delete and create a new file, it’s not a write-in-place just because file names match; it’s why the possibility exists.

You may be able to use some demos of more expensive professional recovery software to scan your drive for the file. At this point I would install the drive into a different system so you know data isn’t being written on it as you download and install all these recovery programs; basically using another system to scan the offline drive.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

First I would make sure it plays in-sync by using VLC player, or re-importing your file and popping it in a timeline in Premiere.

If everything looks a-ok after that, flash does have a legacy issue playing back 48kHz audio and some people still report noticing sync issues. If you know your video is destined for the web, especially a flash player like vimeo or youtube, play it safe and export your audio at 44.1kHz.

For the practical purpose of a deliverable file, there is no audible difference in 44.1kHz and 48kHz.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You can try https://www.piriform.com/recuva to see if it’ll find your deleted autosaves, but if you browse the internet or work on other stuff, save other files, that space on your hard drive where the auto-saves were may have been written over already.

I don’t believe there are any autosaves or recoverable data in the AppData folder where they store the media cache, but I’m not a know-it-all either.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Are you watching the video in Quicktime? This is an infamous known problem with the Quicktime player and it has been for years.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Give Avid’s intermediate codec set a try. It’s free and cross platform.

https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=372311

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I would call it a “2D Animator/Motion Graphics Specialist”

In your ad you can then outline that some “faux” 3d experience is needed in After Effects and the ability to composite live action footage is preferred to.

You may want someone with web programming experience, but chances are your animator will just be supplying h.264 or webm video files. You’ll have to get a programmer if you want to take image layers and natively animate them within HTML5 (it’s such an over reaching process, you’d drive a single guy crazy and that’s assuming you can find one person to cover all the bases).