Brandon Davids
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Thanks, too easy!
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FYI, I found this post and it worked. I had a mask with the Saber effect on it and the glow was getting cutoff by the solid’s edges. I copied the mask by highlighting it and presseing CTRL + C and then deleted it. Then I changed the solid settings and pasted the mask back onto it. Worked perfectly.
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I did forget to mention one thing. This “could” also be related to dragging ONLY AUDIO from the preview monitor into the timeline, but I have not had time to try and reproduce that yet, mostly because I’m behind on finishing this project because of the troubles I have had and don’t want to break it again, just to be right.
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This is NOT adding up for the following reasons, plus I have an easy fix for when this happens and I don’t need the metadata/supporting files either; therefore, I have reason to believe this is a bug in Premiere.
The bottom line is that the Adobe Tech told me that if I use MP4 files, that I will NOT have this problem. That is an inaccurate statement and like I said, I had mp4 clips and Adobe broke the sound on those too.
I just opened an entirely different project, and it had reference to the same MP4, as all my youtube videos reference this 5 second channel brand into, and it was Red and missing sound. Even if I re-add the file from my hard drive, it has no sound.
The simple solution is to simply make a copy (on your hard drive) of any file that is broken and then simply re-link the media to the new copy.
Obviously, however Premiere is processing the video files you toss at it, it’s caching the data somewhere and after it breaks the sound, and you re-add that file to your project, it thinks it’s already cached the sound and doesn’t reprocess it, but if you make a copy of the file, it looks like a totally new file that has never been added to premiere and processes the audio from the file.
I keep finding more and more people this is happening to and it’s also coinciding with Adobe updates and also always seems to happen when Adobe just magically decides to tell you that you are running trial software.
This needs to be escalated to Adobe because this has cost me 10 hours over 2 occasions. I’m just glad that now I can fix it in a matter of a minute or two, but this will cause others serious setbacks. The Adobe rep told me that I was screwed and couldn’t salvage the project and that’s no good advice.
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From the original post. I got the error message when opening the project, and the project won’t open. I can delete all my cache folders and then load the project, but then all media is red and appears unlinked but none of my media has sound.
I did a full uininstall and a full clean of the entire adobe suite using the adobe clean tool, including the CC app. On installation of CC app, by downloading from Adobe, logging in and then re-installing premiere and media encoder etc…. it didn’t help.
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This is exactly why I asked this question. I think this is a problem with Adobe. I would never just un-register my software. I think adobe did an update and got screwed up. When I log back in it’s not properly registering my codecs etc…
I did a full uninstall and clean and it didn’t help.
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Thanks. I’ll look into that. I do have the CC suite. I have a beast of a computer with multiple and fast M.2 SSD’s but I do a lot of PIP style overlays, green screen, animation and effects. Sometimes, I have to drop down to 1/2 resolution for preview to make it smooth, especially if I have some 4k clips. More speed is always good!
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Thanks for the info. I guess that if I wanted to move the videos from my sd card into different folders because I shot totally different movies with them, that I could move the entire SD card to a folder on my hard drive and then move the MTS files wherever I want, and then simply make a copy of ALL the supporting files above them, since they don’t take up much room.
Now what about the fact that my MP4 file was broken and the fact that when this happened last time, that I was able to recover somehow?
I appreciate your knowledge and time, thanks.
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OK, Here is my first track results. The screen replacement (in the beginning) was a breeze in mocha and only took minutes. I didn’t really try to do any sort of glow around the edges or all that. This is a kids video but I’m happy with the results.
The first track is from the rear of the car and starts just after 1:55. I’m happy with the results, but it wasn’t perfect and knowing what I know now, after doing the 2nd track, I could do it better.
The 2nd track, the 15 second clip after, was a huge undertaking for my first project. After screwing around the better part of 10-12 hours really learning how tracking works and reading and watching tutorials and starting from scratch, It took me about 6 hours to learn how to do everything. The light occlusion is a total hack with multiple masks but it serves it’s purpose. I had to get 8 lights onto that car and easily spent 1-2 hours just screwing around with the flares. I ended up using 3 tracks due to the perspective changes etc… It was a very challenging job, but that’s why I did it.
I can’t say how important it is to read the adobe documentation. I was using the components of AE’s tracker wrong and it costed me at least 2 hours of frustartion. This document was the biggest help.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/tracking-stabilizing-motion-cs5.htmlHere is my project! Power Wheels Police, Ep. 2!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiS52h2JpQI’m really having a blast doing these with my kids and wife and I’m learning a lot!
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I agree. I appreciate your feedback. I’m sure another 10-20 hours of trial and error and I’ll figure it out. I’m a programmer, so I’m used to this type of stuff.
Part of the problem is that the lights are small and confined in a small area and I tracked a much larger area so the track is shrinking/expanding a few pixels here and there, even though I manually adjusted it some of the way through.
Is there an easy way to adjust a track over multiple frames? Any easier than what I was already doing?
I’ll post a link of my video when it’s done!