[Angelo Lorenzo]

If you go frame by frame, the photos grow from nowhere so you could use the scale property to handle that. When it stands up, this is easy for After Effects: click the 3D switch on for the layer and you’ll be able to rotate on all three axis. Place the anchor point at the bottom of the photo and rotate it forward – boom you have a photo that stands up.

If you want to get more technical, you can add the drop shadow by adding a light to your comp. In the materials property for the photo select “Cast shadows: yes”, “Accepts shadows: no”, and “Accepts light: no”. Turn on the background layer’s 3d switch and in the materials property select “Cast shadows: no”, “Accepts shadows: yes”, and “Accepts light: no”

Adjust and animate to taste.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Problem solved, apparently sync lock isn’t enough. The track also has to be edit locked (lock icon) to allow ripple deletes on other tracks.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7d04a.html#WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7cfba

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

I have a 2006/07 MBP and the numpad is part of the traditional keyboard, accessed by holding down the function key (fn key). This is what I’m talking about when I say they have the numpad.

The keys used will have additional very small numerals on them, and on my MBP include 7, 8, 9, 0, -, u, i, o, p, j, k, l, ;, m, period, and /

Take a closer look, although I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple nixed it.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

If you want to edit things in a timely manner, don’t use After Effects.

After Effects is not a video editing program (also known as an NLE or non-linear editor), it’s a strange amalgam of visual effect, compositing, and finishing tools. It does not have the toolset or display video in a manner that makes it conducive for plain editing.

Invest in Premiere if you don’t have the program already, and a monthly subscription to Lynda.com so you can watch some training videos and get up to speed.

With that said, in terms of management, Premiere doesn’t do any management or cataloging at a file/disk level. You’ll have to figure out how you want to manage, move, and keep track of files yourself.

Within Premiere, like After Effects, you can organize things via bins.

The best thing to do, since you don’t have some monolithic company-wide decided-on file organizing structure, is to base your project/file structure on the inherent structure of your final product.

It might be something like Master Project > Bin for DVD 1 > Bin for each major section of the DVD > Bin for audio, video, additional assets.

This structure also allows you to do paper audits. You know how far along each section is, if a section is complete, if a section is in client review and so on.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

I don’t believe so, unless you:

1. Can find a separate keyboard utility that will make your top row keystrokes mimic a numpad

2. Get a USB number pad (these run about $10 and you can find them in office suppy stores, Best Buy-type stores, etc).

3. Learn to use the function key. The right hand side of the keyboard also functions as a numpad with + and – being on the : and ? keys. Unless the newer macbook pros don’t use this.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Lets say you have:

Vid1.mov
Audio1.mov

and you merge them and end up with an automatically named
Vid1.mov – merged

What you may not have noticed is that if you add a marker to the original clip in the bin (Vid1.mov in this example) is that you have access to read those markers and title/comments in the merged clip. This is assuming you have some kind of scratch audio on your original video which would allow you to log in this manner. Annoying but hardly a showstopper, and shouldn’t really increase your workload or tun-around time.

Concerning XML and merged clips, I think CS6 fixes some issues. I was able to take an XML from Premiere with merged clips and relink it in Final Cut Pro 7 and everything relinked fine. Even right clicking the audio portion of clip in the timeline and selecting “reveal in finder” finds the proper audio source file. They’re treated like nested timelines in the bin, but seem to be master clips in the timeline… weird translation but it works.

The one huge speedbump that still remains, if I recall correctly, is how Premiere handles multi-cam exports.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Ann, I would assume it does exactly what the setting suggests: places a time base on an indeterminate file. Image sequences would be part of that but audio as well; audio uses audio samples as its true fractional measurement of time, so unless it contains additional timecode info (like broadcast WAV files) then Premiere is interpreting it in a more video-friendly way.

I did test what happens when changing that setting and it will change how timecode is displayed in the source monitor.

Kind of interesting to know.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

It’s a very buried, strangely labeled setting.

Edit > Preferences > Media > A setting called “Indeterminate Media Timebase”

Audio files, if they aren’t broadcast wave files with embedded timecode (and even that is a calculation based on samples since midnight) then Premiere uses the timecode base for this setting since audio is sample based, not frame based.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Yes, but not easily.

In Window, keyboard layouts are saved in:
C:/Users/Your Name/AppData/Roaming/AdobePremiere Pro/6.0

and they have a file extension of kys. I’m sure Mac has an equivalent directory where it stores user info.

In terms of program layout, it’s pretty easy: Create a blank project, customize the GUI as you like it and save.

When you open Premiere, in the drop down that allows you to switch layouts, select “import workspaces from project” and then open your pre-saved project.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Export as an image sequence, see where it dies then inspect the video clip it dies on for any corruption or other issues.

If you’re pressed for time then export, see where it dies then pick up a second export one frame after. Combine the two image sequences and deal with the frame skip by duplicating or blending a frame.

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Angelo Lorenzo

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