[Bart Straman]

hi There

I have one to. It’s very easy. I asume that you’ve converted the files on the cam’s HDD to mpeg files by renaming it (create a batch file to convert all the extensions of files in one click). Now you have mpeg’s.
it’s weird. PP2 works with MPEG’s but doesn’t like it, and sometimes gives an unknow error. There is a very good plugin on the market for PP2 working with mpegs (main concept pro). you can download there demo version, you can work with it, only there is a watermark.. but anyway. There shouldn be any big file indexing unless the files are 4 GB or so. 300 mb files on a normal pc is under 40seconds of indexing (and only one time).
if this not solving your problem. convert your mpeg’s from your HDD to avi using winavi, or any other good! converter!!
then everythings works wel.

hope this helps;)

good luck!

Ultimate Bart
Artmedia Designs

[Bart Straman]

never had it, sounds very weird. not everyday busness.

I always recommand back-up it every 30min or so on a different Hard drive (I always use external hard drives for that). realy saved my “ass” a couple of times this way, and it’s not such a big deal. you know. Grab some thee, oohw wait, first back it up to external drive (after the autosave or so). and work your day arround 🙂

Greetzz

Bart

[Bart Straman]

hi

yeah, that sounds pretty cool! realy gonna try that one.
I had a plan to make projectiles like a real ball/rock bounce very real to the shield by combining the first technick with your shield one.

first, a footage of me standing with some sort of movable wall from woot or plastic in front of me. someone else is trowing the objects against this movable wall and it bounces of ofcourse (me acting like it hits my shield). than make the second footage but without the wall. (just let the camera roll, throw away the wall and cut it so that you have a clear background without the wall)
then using some masking just cut away the wall (and because of the second footage you have the same background) and replace it with a shield , than make some sort of impact-energy flow-away in the shield like you said. and if timing right, the REAL rock/ball is bouncing away from the shield..

thanxs for the shield technique 🙂

Greetzz

Bart

[Bart Straman]

hi

yeah, that’s the most easiest one to use and gives you the best results

@Thorsten Miess

heey, I have a question for you, on your video’s. at that website link you gave the previous post. the one with the “karate kid theme song” and some plasma balls. It realy looked like, yeah normal until I saw your FORCEfield at 1.23minutes.

can you tell me how you did that, i was looking for a simmilar effect, but still haven’t found it.

thanxs

Bart

[Bart Straman]

Any clip that has a speed adjustment, does not come through correctly

that’s a PPro feature, not an AE feature. just cut your scenes in PPro , then import in AE and then use Time remapping. lot easier.

Bart

[Bart Straman]

heey

ehm, realy use your own imagination 🙂
every music video has it’s own styl. some like to switch scenes very fast (you just shoot on like five different scenes and then blend them together so it matches). or you could use a virtual world which you build and you capture the actors on a greenscreen.
what i always like is to put some heavy Soundsystems in the back with the cones of the speakers pumping real hard. most of the time i make them in invigorator pro for after effects.

it is realy up to you what you would like, and what kinda song it is realy.

you can also make a little story between them. some music video’s have that. but most of the time they doesn’t make any senses. quite cool to fill up the frames though.

Important is to sinchronize the music with your video and if actors playback, make it as reals as possible. (by realy let them sing it with a little stereo on the background playing the sound).
nice expansive cars are always fun. and sometimes you can choose a theme for a music video, which makes it easier to think what you wanna shoot.

you have to ask yourself: what would the viewer like to see with this particular song. then you get there.
for examples. just watch MTV, TMF(Netherlands), VIVA(Germany) or any other music program for the clips. (or search youtube or whatever). and just look what kind of elements they use. how fast they switch scenes etc etc

good luck

[Bart Straman]

heey

my export product from working with mpeg-2 are beautifull, so i really don’t know what you did then…mayby give some more info on your export settings
i can tell you now that converting them into avi’s won’t change the quality of your output. only it is that the change of unknown errors ocuring while working with mpeg2 is almost none if you convert them to avi’s (weird stuff realy) there is an mpeg2 plugin though, but that is ofcourse very expansive.

Bart

[Bart Straman]

just use a specific search on your pc for that effect.
(you know on windows Start-> search) and then search in the AE folder.
mayby that comes with something.

Bart

[Bart Straman]

you do a better yob in green screening your actor realy. You don’t wanna rotoscope a persons movement for long scenes, unless you have tons of time and realy wanna injoy clicking your mouse.

for stills a mask will work quit well.

Bart

[Bart Straman]

heey

yes all my audio is in .wav
I say that there are three options, or convert it to avi as you said.
or buy the very expensive MPEG plugin from mainconcept. or try working with them anyway
I will try once more working with them, because the error is only after some time. if i finished before i wouldn’t noticed anything. the rest is working properly. if the error still occurs i will convert them

thanxs!

Bart