[Chris Jones]

Thanks again for the help.

This is the clip posted on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fx7Vrcol1k&feature=youtu.be

I’m trying to remove all the cars except for the old black Buick turning the corner.

You can also see a biker comes in behind the Buick – he needs to be removed also.
The jpegs: I’m able to do what I want in Photoshop on one frame. I just am not sure how to do it for a full clip with After effects.

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[Chris Jones]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

We did shoot long takes so that we have a lot of clean background footage.

I’m trying to draw loose circles around the cars I want to take away then delete them (to reveal the clean background). I sort of figured out how to do that last night by trail and error – but I can’t find any tutorials on how to do it – I’m not sure what doing that is called.

I tried the roto tool but the hero’s car doesn’t stand out from the background that well. So I tried to use the pen tool but that really doesn’t work very well.

In Photoshop I would use the lasso tool but the closest thing I can find in After Effects is the pen tool but as I said setting points doesn’t seem to work very well when you are trying to draw the contours of a complicated shape. Does After Effects have something like the lasso tool?

Thanks!

[Chris Jones]

It’s been a while now since I dealt with my problem and I don’t remember all the ins and outs.

I do remember in the end I gave up on the Areca and bought an ATTO R680. The ATTO is much more user friendly if you are not experienced setting a RAID up (as I was not). Also the tech support from ATTO is a million times better than Areca. (I never could do much troubleshooting with the Areca because I could not afford to pay someone else to install it for me – which seemed to be the only option for my level of expertise)

So I never did figure out what the answer to this post was (because I returned the Areca).

In the end I did have a problem with my hard drives (which might have been the main problem with the Areca also) The drives simply didn’t work with the equipment I had which gave me all kinds of headaches. It’s possible that could be causing your problem too. In the end I bought Hitachi Ultra Drives. The ones I had originally were supposed to be fine… but they were not. Luckily Newegg accepted the return for those drives. Thank you Newegg!!

Since May my setup has been working. As I said, I use the ATTO R680 and an 8 drive ProAvio enclosure, with Hitachi Ultrastar drives.

Hope this helps a little

[Chris Jones]

Thank you.

If it happens again I will remember to try that.

The little box returned to the video track, but then the 2 boxes disappeared from the audio tracks… a bit later I looked and they were all back.

Strange one.

Thanks for the reply and as I said I will try what you suggested if it happens again.

[Chris Jones]

This happens to me sometimes too. But I have to restart my computer to fix it. It drives me crazy.

I have an early 2009 MacPro with 8 cores. My RAM is a bit low though. Only 8 gigs.

I’m running Snow Leopard.

I hope someone knows the answer.

[Chris Jones]

Awesome!

Thanks David for all the advice. I did appear to throw some stuff out of sync. Thanks for the heads up!

The TTTT is my new favorite tool and I’m editing along happily again 🙂

[Chris Jones]

Hi Anna, thanks for the reply.

You know… it took a while but I figured out what happened. After I transferred the content files from the camera to the drive; I did what I had never done before… I turned off the camera without ejecting the camera. I realized what I had done after I did it, but thought there wasn’t anything I could do about it at that point.

I then tried to Log&Trans from the folders on the Drive – that is when I started to see the problems and started this thread.

After a while I started to see all kinds of problems on my Mac…. I was afraid I had a much bigger problem than I thought I originally had.

Then I remembered not ejecting the drive. So I connected the camera again and ejected the drive… ALL THE PROBLEMS WENT AWAY!

The point of the story is ALWAYS EJECT BEFORE UNPLUGGING!!! 🙂

[Chris Jones]

Thanks for all of the outside of the box ideas 🙂

It doesn’t seem that my 2nd monitor has the ability to desaturate. But my grading monitor might – I just have to switch the cables from the Decklink card to the Mac.

That would be the easiest.

Otherwise I’ll see how the other ideas work!

Thanks!

[Chris Jones]

I have the same problem withe the Avid Artist Panel.

Did you find a fix? Changing the peripherals all the time is getting old…

[Chris Jones]

Ah, I see. I didn’t realize those two options work together.

You would think that the deinterlace option would gray out when you set output fields to “same as source”. But I know now so that works too.

Thanks for the help!