Blaise Douros
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What rez are you exporting, and at what bitrate? At 1080p, you should be able to get a really clean 30-minute file for 5gb, especially with a nice bitrate and two-pass encoding. If you’re trying to get a 4K file down to 5gb for 30 minutes, you’re basically going to be cutting the bitrate down by 1/4 from the equivalent 1080p export.
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I don’t think the FS7 does it–I’ve never gotten mine to. One thing to try would be to make sure you’re outputting the Display Overlays to the monitor? But I’m pretty sure that Zebras and Peaking only work with the built-in VF.
A lot of the compact monitors like SmallHD have their own built-in zebras–that might be your best option–it’s not free, but for $300 it’s not as expensive as it used to be for this kind of stuff: https://smallhd.com/pages/findyourfocus
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Blackmagic is a good option, as Eric said. I’d also look at the Sony FS5 as an option at the high end of your budget.
How much do you care about form factor, and is it better if you can get more cameras? One great lower-budget option would be to get a bunch of Sony A7III’s, add the K2M or K1M XLR recording input accessory, and then you can Metabones-adapt your existing Canon lenses and retain your Sony E-mount lenses from the FS100s. The A7III can switch from a Full-Frame mode to a Super-35 mode for lenses that only cover APS-C. It shoots 4K at 24p or 30p, and with the XLR accessories, has two professional audio inputs.
The codec doesn’t have quite the same wiggle room for color work that a 10-bit 4:2:2 camera would, but the image quality is great for the price. -
Everything appears to be working great–file behaves as expected when I pull it down. Nice work!
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I brought this up recently; the Cow staff replied that are working on getting the .aep file type added. For now, you can upload an .aep within a .zip file, and it’ll work fine that way.
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Oh man, it’s so great when it’s that easy! Ask and you shall receive!
Yes, to my knowledge, .aep is the only extension for After Effects project files (I’m a couple CC versions behind, for stability)
Looks like the mime type is application/octet–stream for one of my recently-created .aep files. I think, anyway. I’ve zipped it up and added to this post so you can double-check me (I had to Google what a mime type was and how to find it, hah).
For AE templates, you are probably on the right track of just saying it should be a zip file, since .aep files don’t contain any media; if a template uses anything outside of AE’s native stuff, then it needs a folder of media, so zips would be better in that instance for sure.
Sweet! I’m excited!
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Crystal, can you clarify what you mean by this? Do you mean making the image appear to shake as though the camera is shaking? Or is it a transition? Some more description and links to examples would be helpful.
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I’ve seen something similar–for awhile, if I was rendering a Dynamic Linked AE project in Premiere, it would hang basically forever…unless I clicked into AE, and then back into Premiere, at which point it would render like normal. It was 100% consistent.
What I did to fix this was…nothing. I just dealt with it for awhile, and then it stopped happening. I have no explanation for why it did this, because I didn’t update versions–maybe some minor OS updates, but I’ve been on the same OS version and release of PP and AE for a long time.
Supremely helpful, I know, but your problem sounds similar enough that it seemed mildly relevant.
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Definitely understand the process of getting the big stuff working right first–my place of work is doing something similar right now with our site, so I feel the pain keenly. I’m glad to hear it’s on the roadmap, and hope you and the rest of the team are not pulling hours that are too painful. Hang in there!
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You can do this by animating text along a vector path that you’ve drawn as a spiral, and using Animation properties of the text controlled by range selectors as well as a separate one for the text tracking to control the size and spacing of the text as it follows the path. My quick and dirty test didn’t allow as much control as I’d like per-character, but it got the motion across without much fiddling.