Bartek Skorupa
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I think that you haven’t got any answer to your question till now, because no one wants to take risk saying: “Don’t worry, just kill your c drive, and you’ll be fine”. I am also not going to say anything like that, but as far as I know – you can do it. There is no problem when you just take your project to another computer, so what problems can you have if you reinstall everything, and open projects, that exist on other drives? In my opinion you shouldn’t worry.
What I can say to you is that I have changed computers several times. I made several back ups of my projects. I have tonnes of old data. I can easily open my 3 or 4 years old projects even though the computers they were created on don’t exist anymore. I switch from mac to PC and vice versa. Projects created on ancient versions of AE open till now. What can I say? Kill your c drive and don’t worry, but don’t sue me if something goes wrong. Not my fault. I’m just giving my opinion.Bartek Skorupa
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You can open his projects, but he can’t open yours.
You will have to combine everything on your computer. Just import his project into yours.
There’s no other way. At least I haven’t heard of any.Bartek Skorupa
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1. Stabilise the motion. This affects only archor point leaving position untouched.
2. Recreate the motion lost in stabilisation process using position keyframes.
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Subclips are not files. They are just references to main file. You can create zillions of subclips, but no additional file will be created.
If you put your subclips into timeline in PREMIERE, select them, hit Cmd-c, go to AE open comp and hit Cmd-v – the layers will be created in your comp. In the project panel you will see all the required files. There may be less files than layers. Maybe only one if all your subclips were created from the same master clip. They all will refer to the master clip from which your subclips have been created.
You can save your AE file, reopen it, and everything should be how it was before closing. If it is different – I don’t have a clue what could happen.Bartek Skorupa
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Change the composition settings so that it’s frame rate is what you want.
Being in your composition hit Cmd-K, find “Frame Rate” and change it.Bartek Skorupa
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Saying DV resolution you probably mean DV compression.
You have to distinguish between “resolution” and “compression”.
Resolution is the size of the image measured in pixels.
You can render or export your video of certain resolution using different types of compression.
720p refers to resolution. This is the image of the size: 1280×720, and “p” means progresive.To export avi 720p just make the composition 1280×720 and export avi with compression type: NONE. You will get 720p avi with no compression.
Pozdrawiam
Bartek Skorupa
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The problem seems weird, but there is a chance you make some small mistake that causes that.
Maybe you could try to make it once again, step by step. We often forget to remove some things from our comp. If you try making it using my suggestions but really step by step and it doesn’t work – I can’t help. Then you really have some bug.So let’s start:
1. Make a new comp.
2. Put your footage to be tracked in it.
3. Put a “null” to that comp.
4. Track the footage.
5. If the track is fine, edit target, and apply the tracking data to the “null”.
6. Put your matte to the comp.
7. Place it where it should be and then parent it to the “null”Check if it works. If it works fine – you have to find the mistake in your main comp. There has to be one. I don’t know: Wrong parenting, expressions, time stretch, some keyframes you were not aware of.
Try to remove all the keyframes from your footage. Saying all, I mean all. All the tracks, all the effects and so on. Remove the null with the tracking data and add a new one. Remove your matte and add it once again and parent correctly. Something has to work.Bartek Skorupa
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…and you can do nothing about it. Sorry.
The system itself have limitations. No matter how many quadrizillions GB of ram you have – the system will let one application use no more than 2, 3 or 4GB, depending on the system.
I have some macs with Leopard, and it assigns 3GB of ram to one app. On one of my computers I have Windows XP 64bit, and get 4GB of RAM for one application.
Multiprocessing will also not solve the problem. Sometimes you get your renders faster when you don’t use multiprocessing.You say 5 hours… Hmmm. Is it long? That depends. Maybe it is just what it takes. Patience my friend. That’s what we are left with.
Bartek Skorupa
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You will have to use all the above suggestions, but probably you won’t get the required result just like that.
I have seen zillions of tutorials about tracking and was very surprised that the authors find the right spot or area in a second, hit “track” and have the perfect result.
After some time I realised that I can’t believe what I see in tutorials.
The footage that tracks perfectly is something unusual. I have tracked hundreds of videos. Maybe 5% of them tracked perfectly. The majority required more or less tweaking.
The “track” is not the goal. The “track” is the means. The goal is to fool the eye, so that the viewer believes, that the attached object is a part of the video.
In your case you could try the following:
Make a few trials with the tracks. If you don’t find the right one – use what you have.
The right side looks good, so focus on the left side.
Take the keyframes for the top left corner, delete all but the first and the last one, and see what it looks like. It won’t look good, so try to use easy ease keyframes. It won’t probably look good eithes, so go to the middle, and tweak the position manualy. Add few more keyframes, but not too many. You should end up with 3 or 4 keyframes max. Finally you will get the result.
Than do the same with the bottom left corner.
Additionally activate the motion blur. Try to feather the edges a bit.
Combine all those things, and when you think that’s all you can do – let somebody who is not working on this project see it, but don’t tell him what you are doing. If he doesn’t see any mistake, tell him what you are doing, and let him watch it once again.Don’t believe too much that the tracks or scripts will do everything for you.
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It is because of slow motion.
Bartek Skorupa
Warszawa, Poland