Chad Gilmour
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Maybe we can petition for a removal of the “pop up promo”? Especially the ones with sound?!! Uggghhh, who ever thought that was a good idea and implemented it should be drug out into the street, slapped, fired, then slapped again.
As far as effects go:
Glow
Glow
Glow
FCP’s default Find Edges effect slapped on footage by itslef. (I only saw it twice, but I shouldn’t have seen it even once)
oh and Glow
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you could also try the background eraser tool (shift+E) I’ve gotten some really good results using that to cut out around hair. The background eraser only erases the color that the cross hairs touch, so if your cursor/brush is over a branch, but the cross hairs are on the sky, it should erase the sky and leave the branch; it’s a very very handy tool, but it is a destructive tool at that so, make sure you duplicate the image before you start erasing.
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I recently purchased a “starter” tablet, just to get used to it and to see if I really like it with out having to spend a few hundred dollars. I bought the regular bamboo (does not include a mouse) off of a dealer on amazon.com for under $60(with s&h) and I absolutely love it. It has a touch sensitive zoom ring on the top that I am constantly using no matter what app I am currently using. The only thing you sacrifice by using a wacom tablet in photoshop is the ability to paint a straight line via shift clicking like you would with a mouse.
The really nice feature of these things is that they are pressure sensitive, so you don’t have to constantly change your brush size, that feature alone saves a TON of time.
The bamboo also comes with a somewhat useful gestures program (on mac os and vista). You make specific moves with your pen and it performs an action universal to all programs (undo, redo, cut, paste, ect.)
I can barely function in photoshop without it anymore. It took me a couple days to get used to it, and probably a week or 2 for it to really become second nature for me. It’s obviously not the best, most sensitive, ect. but for under $60 it’s one of the best purchases I’ve made. -
That is a good website, a great reference for various codecs, they didn’t have Targa Sequence listed, but I think they have enough information to get me what I need. Thanks for the tip!
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I agree with the above reply’s (except for the magic bullet thing, I haven’t used it and can’t vouch for it). That level of color correction is a lot of masks, gradients, tracking masks, mattes, travel mattes, and a TON of finessing and playing around. I personally think the example here is extremely possible with AE. But it also helps when you use footage with at LEAST a 4:2:2 color space to start with. By the looks of it they used DVC pro HD footage. Keep in mind Color used to be a $25,000 color grading program, I forgot the name of it before Apple bought it, but there is a possiblity that it just might be a better program for color grading/correction than AE… maybe.
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I have issues like that too, only it seems a tad more frequent, then again we burn through at least a few hundred files per week per machine (4 machines). It seems the machine will write a corrupt file and it isn’t always noticeable at first, and then over time as data is written around it on the harddisk it compounds the problems until they paralyze your system. I wish I had good advice, we have IT guys that get paid to hunt that stuff down and fix it. We use OMF’s, I’ve heard rumors that MXF’s are better about that kindof stuff.
But then again, I get corrupt files out of Final Cut Pro every now and again too, and though they don’t paralyze the computer and the software, they completely destroy the project.
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nice, thanks for clearing that up for me.
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yeah… it doesn’t help that I don’t know much about audio sweetening either.
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is there any footage in your composition in AE?
I am constantly bringing stuff to and from Avid and AE. I have found that sometimes Avid spits out a corrupted file, but it still works and edits fine in AE. The only time I realize it is when I try rendering out a targa sequence and AE chokes on it. I know it’s not the same symptoms, but I’d try re-exporting your footage from Avid and replacing it in your AE timeline and try rendering then. If you don’t have footage in your AE timeline I got nothing for ya except to try and look at those “messed up” targa sequences on another computer and see what happens. -
Uncompressed 10bit has zero quality loss, it actually looks better than a regular quicktime movie export, expect ENORMOUS files though. It probably isn’t worth it, and gets impracticale when you start running in execess of 15 minutes, but when I have shorter movies, 7min or less I render out an uncompressed and back that up on a dvd. Then if I need to use it again down the road, and compress it to something it won’t have had any generational loss. It’s a bit of an impracticle format given it’s size, but it’s something to think about anyways, especially for shorter projects.