Chad Mayeux
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Yea clustering for compresser. One day it would be nice to create a render farm but no budget for that or for upgrading tiger to snow leopard. Gotta work with what I have.
By the way I have successfully transfered all data and hard drives, however having trouble with qmaster and clustering.
Both computers are recognized by one another with Mac 2 being the controller and Mac 1 just a client. For some reason when I submit something for rendering using the new cluster, it only distributes work to Mac 2 and not 1.
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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Jon,
Out of curiosity, does CS4 by chance have an option in the preferences that would let you turn the auto update feature on/off for the titler? If not, is it possible to suggest that to adobe in hopes that they would include such a feature in CS5?
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
Videographer/ Digital Artist -
Jon,
Thank you very much for your response and video! However, it still does not achieve what I want to achieve. That method is perfect for lower thirds and other stuff, but we are having to change the score of a basketball game (which changes A LOT) and with final cut I can avoid having a project folder with hundreds of separate title files. Don’t get me wrong, the updating feature in Adobe is convenient and mostly logical, however, in this case it is a real pain. I am guessing though that is how it has to be. Again thanks so much for your response!
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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it is premiere pro CS3 and the clip was enabled. I could even scrub through it and it showed up on the program monitor. I just couldn’t add a transition to it without premiere freezing up. This is why i suspect the clip was corrupted.
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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Well the track was unlocked and when i did lock it to see if that is what it was, it put diagonal lines across the whole track and they were thinner and went across the whole track, not just the clip. Although in the picture it looks like the lines of a track that is locked, they are actually different lines.
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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Ok i was a little mistaken, the footage with the red frames was not from the raw DV footage. The DV footage had been burned to DVD and I lost the original DV footage and project file so I copied the VOB files from the DVD onto my desktop and then used MPEG Streamclip to convert it to MPEG so I could bring it back into premiere and edit it. So it must have happened when I converted it to an MPEG. Very strange
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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What you are asking depends on a lot of things. You asked about PAL, was the video shot in PAL or NTSC? The frame rate will be reduced by the encoder to whatever flash video’s standard rate is (I dont know what it is). The bitrate will depend on the file size you want it to be, the higher the bitrate the larger the file size will be. The frame size also depends on how big you want the file size to be. A common frame size for web videos is 320×240 however you can make it any size you want, just understand, the bigger the frame size, the bigger the resulting file size. Was the video shot in 4:3? If so you can reduce the frame size to anything in that ratio.
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
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ok that sounds awesome. How would I go about calibrating the monitors? Is there an article or video tutorial that would explain it? I can get color bars but i am not too sure about all blue mode.
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
Videographer/ Digital Artist -
[Vince Becquiot] “Or you could let Encore automatically do the encoding for you.”
Encore probably is the best bet, but from what I have learned in this industry it is also best to use a manual setting over an automatic (i.e. manual vs auto focus on a video camera). What I am thinking is that me understanding some concepts of compression and applying manual settings to the compressor will give me better results than hoping Encore gets it right for me. In the same sense I get better video when I control the focus manually rather than letting the camera decide what is best.
So my new question; are those previously mentioned assumptions correct? Is Encore good enough or is it worth understanding the compression process? (I compress something almost everyday)
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
Videographer/ Digital Artist -
That is such valuable information, thank you so much! Does anyone know of anywhere that has an article or maybe video lesson explaining the main concepts of video compression? I really would like to understand this process and what things like M-frames and B-frames and GOP are. Again thanks for the help so far!
Chad Mayeux
Metter, GA
Pineland Technology Solutions
Videographer/ Digital Artist