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Ben Masterson
August 26, 2010 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Open Captions from a text file

I was assuming there would be something more automated than copying and pasting title by title. The show is 45 minutes long. I am pretty sure there is other software that will actually make a quicktime file to overlay in Premiere, but I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to do this right in Premiere.

-Ben
Ben Masterson
August 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Save Custom Boris Effect to M100 Transition Menu

Thanks Floh! I guess I’m still having a little trouble navigating the Mac OS.

-Ben
Ben Masterson
June 7, 2010 at 4:41 pm in reply to: CS5 – how do I change Pixel aspect ratio

By manually I mean custom. I only have the option to set to the new aspect ratios. That workaround worked fine for opening an old files, but i still only get the new PAR’s when creating a new comp.
Ben Masterson
June 4, 2010 at 6:06 pm in reply to: CS5 – how do I change Pixel aspect ratio

So there is no way to manually change the pixel aspect ratio when creating a new comp?
Ben Masterson
June 4, 2010 at 5:46 pm in reply to: CS5 – how do I change Pixel aspect ratio

Yeah, I never upgraded to CS4 but I used a friend of mine’s and noticed his D1 widescreen square pixel setting was different and not accommodating any of my C4D renders. I thought it was a little bug at first but I didn’t look into it until I upgraded to CS5. Unfortunately I don’t use Final Cut, and my NLE doesn’t use the new PARs.

Thanks for the responses.

-Ben
Ben Masterson
December 10, 2009 at 10:22 pm in reply to: FCP XML to Media 100 1.1.1

Ok I tried it with another program and it worked. Upon further inspection, FCP is seeing my timeline media as “offline” even though it is playing fine. I had originally exported this timeline from Media 100 as xml and imported it into FCP, I guess that is where the screw up happened.
Ben Masterson
December 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm in reply to: Conform vs. Import – Quality

Thanks Floh. You gave your response as I was typing my update. You’re too quick 😉
Ben Masterson
December 8, 2009 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Conform vs. Import – Quality

Thanks for the response Floh, that is something I missed. I am wondering why they use different algorithms. Does this mean we should not trust the import feature to downconvert or upconvert?
Ben Masterson
December 8, 2009 at 5:04 pm in reply to: Conform vs. Import – Quality

When I import the HD clip with the media standard set to 525i 29.97 (16×9) the image doesn’t look good – it is very crawly and the colours are oversaturated. Also there appears to be 2 sets of Audio Tracks (ie. under the little speaker in the bin thumbnail it says A1A2 twice. As well as there are 2 A1A2’s in the channel mapping.) When I try to drag this clip onto the NTSC 525i 29.97 (16×9) timeline it gives me an error message until I disable one of the identical sets of audio channels. Very strange.

When I import the HD clip as is (Apple ProRes 4:2:2), then drag it (and conform) onto the NTSC 525i 29.97 (16×9) timeline it looks exactly like it should…great.

It also takes much more time to conform the file than importing.