Bill Stephan
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I have the eSATA card that came with my G-Speed ES RAID, both of which work fine as-is. All applicable drivers were updated when I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
FYI the Blu-ray burner did not work on eSATA under Snow Leopard either.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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I have the exact same problem, except my Mac Pro is on Mountain Lion. I have no idea how to make the Blu-ray burner work from the eSATA port.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Johannes,
If you have ProRes or DNxHD codecs available on your system, you can use that instead of the lossless AVI. You can download the DNxHD codecs from Avid’s website. These codecs will compress the data with only a very minimal difference in picture quality.
If you don’t want to reinterpret your 25P footage as 24P, then you need to standards convert your finished 25P program before encoding the media for the disc.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can right click on your clip in the bin and “reinterpret footage” as 24P. Do this before you drop anything into the timeline.
When encoding for DVD, you should encode using an encoder that will flag the 3:2 pulldown for correct playback in the DVD player, as there is no 24-frame NTSC in the world of DVD.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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David,
Generally, but this depends on the specifics of your workflow, you want to grade your footage first before compositing. If you have shot A needing one grade and shot B needing another grade, you can only apply one grade to the composited effect.
If you composite an effect with flat Alexa footage, your grade will affect both shots and any effects created externally, which might affect the look of the light flares or particles in an undesired manner.
If you are compositing and color correcting an effect inside Avid, you have the option of going back later to change the grades. Just rerender your final effect.
If you are using a smoke/flame/shake workflow, the grades can be applied wherever needed during efx creation.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Typically, the editor or producer will record a scratch track in the edit room and then edit that into the rough cut. Any copy that does not work can be rewritten to suit the picture cut. Then a professional voice-over person will read each section of copy knowing the length each section of v/o must be.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Rok,
You can’t do this with a blending mode — difference or exclusion will get you close, but the white portion of the text in your example will be grayish.
I would create a layer of white text, then a layer of black text on top. Mask the black text as necessary to produce the final effect.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
I do not recommend buying ANY software product on Ebay. Caveat emptor!
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If the resolution of the PC/Mac display card is set for lower than 1920×1080 pixels (most are), your project will display larger than full screen. Set the display card resolution to 1920×1080 or higher.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Avoid exprting to the DV codec out of Premiere. That undoubtedly is causing a visible loss of image quality. Export an uncompressed AVI if you have the disk space, otherwise use a lightly compressed codec. Then encode using AME as before.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City