[Bart Straman]

hi there

I’ve used the free version (where you get a water mark, but for the rest it’s practicly the same) for my MPEG2 video files. It work great actualy, no problems at all. Only yeah, PP can handly MPEG only gives some unknown error if it doesn’t like a certain frame (so can it handle MPEG? donno) so after trying Mainconcept pro I realy liked it, only not the watermark so I stopt using it.

I’ve used the latest free version on there website.
mayby on HD files it realy needs alot CPU and RAM, but in my case it was very quite and yeah taked virtualy none compared with PP itself with no mainconcept on. I’m running PP2(not CS3).
I think your third problem is realy weird. It shouln’t do that
or it’s a major bug in PP CS3 or your system is “confused”(which stands for alot of things)

Bart

[Bart Straman]

mayby some info for us? what kind of audio file is kinda handy to know. You can choose multiple audio setups and for your render to (in microsoft DV), you may wanna look there.

Greetzz

Bart

[Bart Straman]

I’ve put this to-do list together and copy past it in like every quistion about this subject and in all cases it was the answer. mayby to you too :

-Edit your clip in Premiere. than save your project.

-open After Effects. file>import, then import your Premiere Pro project file.

-now you see your clips in the project panel and very important a sequence file (it’s called that way I thought).

-double click on that sequence file (important: do not move it into the timeline, just double click). and all your seperate scenes/shots/files (cut in Premiere pro) appear in the timeline in AE as seperated layers (also transitions and styles from Premiere PRo are imported).

-then use coole effects on them separedly. if you wanne render in AE, your done here.

render out in Premiere :

-then save your AE file. and if you wanna render it out in Premiere pro, just open the AE project file in Premiere.

-then only 1 clip will appear, but you’ve edit this the first time in PP and allready applied effects on it in AE, so no prob there 🙂

i tried dynamic link, but this is only a options for 1 scene/dvd menu or whatever per sequence. only usefull if you wanne see direct result between AE and PP. not with a movie with 200 shots or so:P

Hope this helps,

Bart

[Bart Straman]

heey, when you import your clip into the timeline, rightclick on it and there should be an option:unlink audio from video,
then they are seperated and you can press delete to delete only the audio/video layer

Greetzz

Bart

[Bart Straman]

hi there,

just makes sure that the inviroment around your person stays stable, i mean, you don’t have to mask exactly half of the shot, you can also make a narrow mask arround the person so that it looks more convincing with less anomalies.

I never done this in PP2, in Adobe After effects it is a piece of cake :). (grab your shot, take the pen tool and draw a mask around the person/space you wanna have, than put your second shot and put it under that layer, done, there are more strategies, even better one)

having your camera steady is very important indeed, all the time. Two persons is easy, making a shot where 10 persons walking around each other is something different, but the results are quite cool!!

good luck!

Bart

[Bart Straman]

heey Mike

then it’s a very “rare” problem you have there. I still think it has to do something with the file location, but I’m not sure.

dynamic link is very usefull and with the right steps switching between AE en PP2 on a bigger scale also.

You know, you can render stuff out with alpha so that you can put cool and very stylish effects which you only wanna use to point things out in your footage. (in interviews, that in some fancy graphics the name of the persons display’s and then fades away,all that small things so you don’t have switch back and fourth for 10000 times from AE to PP2 with dynamic link/with the method I described and still wanna use al that good stuff from AE, rather then the basic things in PP2)you can read more about it here: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?p=151

good luck with your projects!

Greetzz

Bart

[Bart Straman]

heey,

so if you saved your AE file, close everything and then import it in PP, it still gives weird color stripes, hmm.

the reason those stripes appear is because it can’t find / display that particular file. if you double click on it it mostlikely gives a pop-up asking you where the file is right? (this is in AE, I also thought in PP). if you than find your movie file , than it should work. but normaly this shouldn happen when opening an AE file. mayby another reason is that the movie file is in some weird format PP can;t display it/handle it, mayby look at that to.

Greetzz

Bart

ps: this is my discription of a few post a few years ago when alot of question came up for combining AE and PP

Edit your clip in Premiere. than save your project.

-open After Effects. file>import, then import your Premiere Pro project file.

-now you see your clips in the project panel and very important a sequence file (it’s called that way I thought).

-double click on that sequence file (important: do not move it into the timeline, just double click). and all your seperate scenes/shots/files (cut in Premiere pro) appear in the timeline in AE as seperated layers (also transitions and styles from Premiere PRo are imported).

-then use coole effects on them separedly. if you wanne render in AE, your done here.

render out in Premiere:

-then save your AE file. and if you wanna render it out in Premiere pro, just open the AE project file in Premiere.

-then only 1 clip will appear, but you’ve edit this the first time in PP and allready applied effects on it in AE, so no prob there 🙂

i tried dynamic link, but this is only a options for 1 scene/dvd menu or whatever per sequence. only usefull if you wanne see direct result between AE and PP. not with a movie with 200 shots or so:P

[Bart Straman]

heey,

ehm, what to do. save your AE project, close AE, then open it in PP2. then it should work fine.
what you describe is I guess when you change in AE, it update automatic in PP2(dymanic link), than is very obvious that when you close that link it stops. only if you close AE (after saving) and import the AE project it should work.

Bart

[Bart Straman]

hi there

Did you put your audio for your microphone form your camera on a different audio track than the other audio (which you can hear) ? If so, than mayby you have to look at your export settings, mayby it’s exporting only one audio track and one video track or so..

Now if the above with the audio track isn’t the problem.
try exporting to dvd but on a folder to your pc (it’s a option you can choose), take the files and play them on your pc before burning(with powerdvd or such). if you do hear audio, than it’s nero or your dvd equipment (on your tv? )
(I recommand exporting a tiny bit, for testing, so you don’t have to wait like 10 hours or so)

Ultimate Bart
Artmedia Designs

[Bart Straman]

hi, you can blur your footage with minimum values to get rid of the most obvious grain you see. (donno if that’s possible in PP2, but it must be). In After effects, yeah, use levels, curves etc all works well for low lights

Ultimate Bart
Artmedia Designs