Ben G unguren
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If the file names have changed, you’ll need to reconnect things manually. Just open the AE project, double-click one of your missing files, and then locate it and relink the files. If only the folder names have changed, AE might be able to relink everything immediately once you link one of them.
If the actual file names have changed (not just the folder/directory names), then select a missing file, press command+H (ctrl+H on PC) and locate the correct replacement for that file. You’ll need to do this manually for each file.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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There are a lot of places where you can buy royalty-free music. Note that isn’t free music, but royalty-free, which means you only pay for the thing once, and then you can use it in your project all you want (more or less — there will be a legal document explaining the terms; more generous terms tend to cost a bit more). Check out https://www.audiojungle.com for some good music. And then if you like someone in particular on that site, you’ll find them on other music distribution sites as well, with other options. If you don’t have quite what you need, they’re often happy to make a custom piece for you (costs more, though).
I also enjoy hiring local composers for things like this, but finding them is up to you.
From a site like audiojungle, you should expect to spend between $10 and $50 for music. A custom-composed one-minute piece might range from $200 to $1500….
As far as licensing is concerned, if it doesn’t include a specific license for distributing it with your own stuff, then it’s going to be a lot more work on your part. So I’d avoid just grabbing a CD off the shelf and dropping it in, unless nothing else will do.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Please share your current export setting with us. Many of us will be able to spot your problem with a quick glance, but we need to know what you’re doing in the first place….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Mike,
I don’t think it can. I hope I’m wrong on this, but I’ve been migrating some of my projects to Premiere over the past few months, and haven’t seen any indication of a QT ref movie option (in the app or in forums). This is definitely something I miss from FCP. In fact, I still sync my DSLR footage in FCP, because I can save reference files, then compress master ProRes files and Timecode-window dubs, etc.
That said, PPro has the option of compressing a specific timeline using Adobe Media Encoder. In FCP (as you surely are aware), exporting to Compressor ties up FCP for the duration of the compression process. In contrast, Adobe Media Encoder will run in the background, so you can keep working. And AME is 64-bit, and is waaaaaaaay faster than Compressor.
This means that you can “export” a movie from PPro using AME, and continue working in PPro while that is happening. I know that isn’t what you were hoping for (I suspect someone has requested QT ref movies on adobe’s requests page, but it’s worth doing again — adobe is listening very carefully right now), but I also wanted to offer some alternatives that might be worth looking into.
Avid, by the way, does do reference movies, bless their hearts! But the speed and versatility of PPro has been pretty intriguing to me (been editing in FCP for 10 years before this).
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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These are all good questions (using external source text, setting up leading zeros, etc). I can’t help you there, however (my expressions skills are pretty basic). I suggest you take what you know at this point and bring it to the expressions forum in a new post.
As for the null, by the way: when I have a lot of expressions, I like to set up a “CONTROLLER” null that has all the expression sliders that I need, so I can tweak them all at once. But this is really a matter of taste more than anything. Good luck!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Two more possibilities come to mind:
– you could have a corrupt file somewhere. I’d watch for this especially if you are using highly compressed codecs, like H264, AVCHD, etc. In that case, transcode these videos to ProRes, Animation, or Photo JPEG and replace the video.
– I’ve recently been solving strange errors with the “jiggler” app, which causes the mouse to shake every minute or so. This keeps the computer awake, and has helped prevent… something. (Okay, I’m not sure what it’s helping, but I swear it helps with some of my more complex AE comps.)
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I agree with Angelo that a screenshot would be very helpful in this instance. In case this isn’t about grain, but about a rough (or shaky) edge around the hair, then here are some thoughts:
– Do a separate key for the hair. This allows you to mess with some settings that wouldn’t work as well for the rest of the body but is ideal for something where there are a lot of fine lines.
– Sometimes you need to make a key to generate the alpha matte, and then you do a second “key” to color the image (remove the green, etc). Then you combine these. This is a process I often undertake when dealing with a more detailed key and/or varied edge detail.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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In that case, my suggestion is to make a composition for each [future] video clip. Put a still image in there for now as a reference. Do your animation with all the compositions nested in a new comp. At that point it’s just a question of dropping your footage over the still images in your video comps. Piece of cake. Probably.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Have you tried Shecret? Hold the shift key while choosing any of the preferences and in the preferences window, at the bottom, is a new option called “Secret” (Used to be called “Shecret” in earlier versions of ae). Tell AE to purge the cache every 24 frames or so. That has helped me with similar problems — it’s kind of like the render resets itself every 24 frames. (This takes a little longer, as clearing the cache requires some extra thinking time.)
Combine that with the image sequence suggestion from Walter and I’ve got a happy feeling for ya….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Yes. You want to pre-render everything, without making any adjustments.
For my projects I have an ASSETS folder where I put all source files. In that folder, I will call one folder “ORIGINAL_FOOTAGE” and a second one “TRANSCODE_FOOTAGE” which has all the pre-renders. Usually I save an AE project in the ORIGINAL_FOOTAGE folder, which was used exclusively for pre-rendering all the footage (if I used AE for that process, at any rate. I tend to use AME or Compressor, but AE works as well).
Then I open a new AE project and drag in all the TRANSCODE_FOOTAGE items (which I just rendered) and I’m on my way!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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