[April Dauz]

Thank you for the quick response!

1) Yes, I’m using a notebook. 🙁

2) Sorry to be so naive, but what’s an array? And what is the difference between a single desktop drive and the C:? In regard to hard drive space, I’m thinking of getting an external drive. Would this do the trick? Maybe like 250GB?

3) Sequences: I never use multiple sequences. If I’m working on a music video, for example, I always use just one sequence and paste clips to that timeline until I’m done. Is that wrong? (I never really got the purpose of having multiple sequences…)

4) Breaking project up: I broke the project up to work on different sections and put them back to one for export. Should I just rebreak these up and export separately? I’m thinking this is what I might have to do.

Thanks again, April

[April Dauz]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for the quick reply.

Although I still cannot seem to figure out the copy/paste “bug,” I think I can get around this by trimming clips in AE, applying effects, then importing to Premiere, correct?

And while I have you, I have another quick question: I’m trying to replicate the Sin City effect in AE (I’m following the CreativeCow tutorial), but when I mask it seems to be leaving everything in color that I “lasso” and everything around it in black. This isn’t what I want though. Instead, I want to maintain all parts of the clips, and just apply certain effects to the area I mask. Again, am I doing something wrong? Because when I first started practicing the effect it would work, but I must have selected something to where it now blackens out everything around my selection.

All the help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again in advance,
April

[April Dauz]

Thanks Eddie.

[April Dauz]

Hi,

The problem is, I already created my sequence in a 16:9 project so when I import to 4:3, the sides are cut off. What I’m trying to do is get a smaller version of the 16:9 sequence into the 4:3 project and then add the letterbox effect.

[April Dauz]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Some of the terms you’re using are kind of going over my head a little bit, so forgive me, but maybe I can be a little more clear if I give a step by step process of what I did.

1. Started project in DV NTSC with frame size 720×480 and pixel aspect ratio 16:9
2. Imported clips sized in 4:3 (from a tv show, actually)
3. Enlarged these clips to fit the 16:9 frame
4. Exported using frame size 720×480 again
5. Uploaded to youtube, but the sides were cut off and sometimes (uneven) bars appeared at the top

Tried again:

1. Imported sequence created using the project settings above to a new project with settings set at frame size 720×480, pixel aspect ratio 0.9, and in editing mode DVD NTSC
2. This imported sequence appeared in the video editing screen with the sides cut off (so I couldn’t just shrink it in to fit and apply letterbox bars to the top and bottom)

Tried one more time:

1. Used the same settings above, but this time imported the sequence (from the first try) after having exported and rendered it to avi
2. Uploaded to youtube and this is when it looked all “squished”

Sorry, that was a bit convoluted. Let me know if this helps any more. I appreciate you taking the time to help.

– April

Note: I actually successfully got the video up on youtube with letterbox bars, but that was after having rendered and exported it in Adobe After Effects. Surely there has to be an easier way of doing this via Premiere.