Ashley M. kirchner
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Okay, let’s see if I understood correctly:
a. Create comp1, place wall and pictures and do the steps you mentioned to create the final, angled wall.
b. create comp2, place wall and (other) elements and do the same steps to create final, angled wall.
Now what? Create comp3 and bring the two together? Then add a camera layer and animate?
It can’t be that easy…I’ve been testing and playing for over 2 weeks now and couldn’t figure it out.
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When you say position the wall, you mean go ahead and angle it where/how I want it, correct?
Two questions: if I do that, how do I create the camera motion later if I want it to start by looking at this first wall (head on) and slowly rotate to look at the other wall?
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Cool. For once my head’s screwed on right.
Now if I want the pictures to be “flying” in, like from behind the camera, past it and then onto the wall, am I better off doing that as a pre-comp on each wall, then create a new comp with the two put in?
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I’ve edited several projects containing several multicam timelines and edits without any trouble. If I had to take a guess, I’d say it’s a glitch with your setup.
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This is just how it previews on your computer. Try creating an actual DVD disc or folders and view that. If you want to go the disc route, I suggest getting some RWs for testing. Or you can just burn the folder structure to your computer and use a DVD program to view it.
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Another method of working with multiple angles is to create a multiple angle time line.
1. Create a new time line and let’s name it ‘Source Cams’
2. Drop each video on a track (track 1 = video 1, track 2 – video 2, etc., etc.) making sure you sync them to one another.
3. Now create a new time line, name it ‘MultiCam’
4. From the projects window drag and drop the ‘Source Cams’ time line onto this new one you just created.
5. High light the clip in the time line then on the menu go to Clip -> Multi-Camera -> Enable
6. Now on your Program Monitor, click on the little arrow in its upper right hand corner to bring up the menu, and pick ‘Multi-Camera Monitor’.
This should now bring up a new monitor that’s split in half with the left half containing all four of your video feeds, and the right being what you’re currently looking at.
From here you can hit the record button and play and using your mouse you can simply click on each camera angle that you want to view at that given moment in the time line. When you’re done and exit the monitor, you’ll notice your time line has all of the cuts you made when you were switching cameras, all set for you ready to go. Fine editing can be done here if you really want to, just go to the cut in the time line and click on the Trim button (on the monitor window) and it takes you the edit where you can drag the cut left or right, depending on where you wanted to make it originally.
It takes a bit of practice, but it sure beats working with all four feeds on one time line, trying to cycle through them one by one by turning them on and off.
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Considering that a wide screen is exactly that, wider than your standard 4:3, you’ll have to do some kind of padding somewhere, somehow. The easiest way that I can think of is, in Photoshop, start with a new document that’s 16:9, then open your old menu file and drag-n-drop it onto the new document. You’ll have to fill in the blank areas.
OR, you can resize your 4:3 menu to fit the 16:9 screen left and right, but then you’ll be cropping top and bottom. Your choice.
Either way, I wouldn’t simply stretch your current 4:3 menu for reasons you’ve already encountered.
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I forgot to mention that the writer is a Memorex 16X DL. The last project I did was a 20 minute show with 1.6 GiB of ROM data added. Those discs burned at about 8 minutes each. So, is it because of the amount of data?
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Not from within Encore. While Encore does allow you to specify that option in the Disc Properties, it won’t actually create the disc with the protection on it. Duplicating outfits pay royalty fees for the protection. I *think* you can create a DLT image of your project with the protection and then hand it to the duplicating place.
But I’ll leave that for someone else to expand on, as I’m not 100% sure.
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[Dave LaRonde] “You got some rotoscopin’ in your future!”
Oh %$@*# no. Ain’t no way I’m doing someone else’s work. My first reply to them was, ‘You should’ve asked me first, THEN shoot.’ I just wanted to get confirmation here that there’s no easy fix for this, I didn’t think there was anyway.
I think part of their problem is a place to shoot this. With the amount of kids, standing somewhat in a line (shoulder to shoulder), it makes for a large area that needs to be covered. At least, that’s how they shot this. Personally I would’ve broken the group up into smaller groups and shoot each one individually, but that’s just me. They can go back to the drawing board, or give me something else to work with. I’m not rotoscoping this.
Thanks all.