Chris Buttacoli
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Are the files corrupted? Do they play outside of Premiere?
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Did you capture the video as a Microsoft DV avi?
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Or you can use Adobe Bridge if you have the CS bundle.
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Not sure droppd frames is a computer repair problem. (Look, I just dropped an “e” in my last sentence!) Dropped frames, I find, usually occur during capture when there is glitch in the footage, which happens from time to time. But this isn’t what Raymond is talking about anyway. His film is already edited, and I assume in sync, prior to the ProCoder conversion. So the issue is bringing back the MPG2 and WAV files back into PPro.
Now I’ve never burned a DVD from the timeline; didn’t even know that was possible. Not in CS3. But I have used Encore, which works great. I’m sure there are less expensive DVD authoring programs (like ULead maybe?) which will take the MPGs and WAVs and pump out a cool DVD. Might be worth the investment if you do this often to eliminate your issue. Plus DVD authoring programs will have many more features to make the final product “more betterer”!
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Obviously the ColorFinesse plug-in is much more powerful than the basic color correction effect in CS3.
But here’s something that I have found works great sometimes. Try the Match Color effect. Use a still from the Dark Knight and put it on the timeline. Place the Match Color effect on the footage you want to grade, and twirl the dropdown box to RGB. (I think HSL is default.) Forget about master, just use the eyedroppers to choose samples of the higlights, midtones and (shadows?). Now hover the CTI over the Dark Knight sample pic without deselecting your footage, and use the eyedroppers to select the “to” samples of higlights, midtones and shadows. Press the presto-change-o button and see how it looks by moving the cti back over the footage. As a tip, just make sure the values of the “to” and “from” samples are of similar luminance level.
I’m not at my editing rig right now, so I’m kinda winging the PPro vernacular. Hopefully you can get the gist of what I’m writing. If not let me know and I’ll give you more exact details later.
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You can also choose “Paste Insert” instead of “Paste” and that will ripple insert your footage at the new time instead of overlaying it.
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Or how about just doing a color offset like this! lol
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Are you saying you tried nesting the sync’d sequence into your main sequence and it’s not working?
What exactly doesn’t work about that method?
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Yes, exporting is the way I do it. Usually one shot at a time; but if my entire edit needs AE processing, I’d export the complete edit and chop it up in AE. And quicktime works great too, just make sure the settings are high quality. Some lossless codecs can create mega-enormous file sizes.
Also check into Dynamic-Linking (if you are using CS3 or CS4). It’s probably a more efficient way to do what we’re talking about here, but I’m more comfortable doing it old-school style. Good luck, Alexis.
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The way I like to work is to edit the sequence in PPro first, and then export only the exact portions that need work/fx done in AE. When using DV footage, I export using the MicrosoftDV codec from both apps, and there is no noticeable loss of quality.