Chris Buttacoli
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You are missing the need to NEST the clips first. How I work usually is to select just the video portion of the clips, and then choose nest from the clip menu (this way my original audio stays put and I can mix it more easily).
Once you have a nested clip, then you can select the multicam enable choice. Of course, then you need to open the multicam editor. I like to dock my multicam editor with the preview monitor instead of keeping it free floating.
Hope this gets you going.
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Is it not easier just to re-shoot that opening shot with collapsed lightsabers????
Don’t fix mistakes like this in post if you don’t absolutely have to.
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If this is happening with new projects as well, with all different types of footage, I would have to think reinstalling is the next logical option.
Let us know what happens, Ginger.
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Yeah, nested clips don’t pass through the waveform – as far as I can tell. So if you need them, you can just nest the video portion of the timeline and then work with the multicam viewer that way. Or output a master version of the audio and import it back into the nested timeline.
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I have had some luck when a project file has gone corrupt, by starting a new project and importing the old one into it. But to have all your old saves not working too, that’s strange.
Have you had issues starting a new project and editing with the same footage?
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Not sure why you wouldn’t want the reflections – for compositing it seems so necessary. Unless you mean it interferes with the tracking. But if you aren’t needing them, what does it matter what is on the screen? As long as you can get a good track, you could replace the screen with anything opaque that you wanted. No need for green either, because you’re not going to key the footage. Again, the track is the only important part. Mocha corner pin for panning shots on a tripod, 3d tracker for shots that change perspective.
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Time-remapping it is called. Very cool to use, but can be tricky. Check for tutorials, there are plenty floating in the cyberspace.
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You will get much, much better results using a transcoder such as Sorenson Squeeze
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Or you could always, dare I say… roto – then use something like Hue/Saturation colorize.
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Even if a typical layer in your PSD is, let’s say, just a 10×10 pixel part of the nose, when you bring that into AE it will be a pre-composed layer of 3500×5000 pixel dimension – because that is the size of your PSD. So you are trying to work with 200 of these 3500x5000px layers – YIKES! I am interested to find out if running the crop script I linked to in the earlier post, which will cut out all of the unnecessary alpha and shrink the aforementioned layer down from 3500×5000 to 10×10, actually makes animation more efficient.