Chris Shumway
Forum Replies Created
-
Okay- just wanted to make sure I wasn’t continuously degrading my work because of tweaking.
What codec would the capture card record my HDV footage in, if not mpeg? Premiere (cs3 at least) converts old .avi files to mpeg automatically (when put into a timeline a red render bar is over the clips)-hopefully it would avoid that if the source video is superior to mpeg.
Currently it looks like I should keep the edit down to timing in the NLE, and then load up into AE for dissolves/CC/effect’s work since the math seems to be better. Exporting my final master through AE to preserve as much as the quality as possible, while knowing that the more digital work that is done, the more lossy the end quality. Does that sound like a good workflow to preserve quality from start to finish? Ideally beginning with the highest quality source footage from a capture card. Unless these cards also help with the export/render?
Lot of good info you’ve given me Dave, thank you
-Christian Shumway
Project Manager
http://www.TurningLeafProductions.com
Christian.Shumway@gmail.com -
I’ve been wondering about capture cards- I have a high end Nvidia card for games/modeling but I assume I would need a specific video capture card. Any suggestions?
When you say re-render are you talking about exporting a completed project then reimporting that master to render out to a different format? I can see that losing quality- But am I loseing quality when I do color correction, render out a single shot to see it in real time (in the NLE), change it slighlty and render to see it again? Is that quality loss persistent even if I delete the effect and not use it? I’ve always thought quality was lost on the final export, not in the testing ground of the NLE’s timeline.
My current system is set up with a Raid 0- HDV doesn’t seem to slow it down to much.
Thanks for your continued advice,
-Christian Shumway
Project Manager
http://www.TurningLeafProductions.com
Christian.Shumway@gmail.com -
Most of the work I do is HDV footage shot on a Sony Z1. Adobe captures these as .mpeg (although it used to be captured as .avi in Premiere pro 1.5)
Currently I use Adobe media encoder to export the files as h.264 for the web, or as .mpg for DVD burning in encore.
-Christian Shumway
Project Manager
http://www.TurningLeafProductions.com
Christian.Shumway@gmail.com -
Wonderful, I hope it works!
-
I’m new to using AE but I think there might be a solution to your problem.
If it is just the logo lettering that is to be replaced I would edit that sample frame in photoshop- Color out the letters so they match with the bottle’s base color, then apply the new logo typeface over that section.
Use photoshop’s tools to distort the text where it should conform to the bottle’s unique shape.
Create a matte of that one section of adjusted bottle face-separating it from the rest of the picture.
Use the newly matted image to layer over your footage of the bottle in the sand. You will have to do some lighting to make in blend well- which can also be done in photoshop.
If there is camera movement in the beach shot you will need to get tracking data of the bottle’s face. When you have the tracking data, apply it to a null object, then parent the adjusted logo image to the null and it should stick to your bottle!
Obviously- it’s just a theory- but hopefully it works or might make you think of a similar way to complete the project. Hope this helps!
-Christian Shumway
https://www.TurningLeafProductions.com -
One last question then.
If SATA fixes my external editing issue, then ideally I should have spent the money on internal rather then external drives, but if I were to attach the external via SATA what would my setup look like? Hole made in side of case for SATA cord out to the external HD? Or try to find room inside case for the “external” to sit?
Thanks again
-
All my drives, external and internal are 7200. Granted the raid 0 inside my tower is faster but I can’t understand why there is a change in compatability between 1.5.1 and CS3 for my external HD footage. What external drive connection should I be using to allow for editing on an external? If USB 2.0 doesnt cut it, could I use the SATA connection that is on the external? Would that cause issues with my raid or would it identify it as just another drive?
Thanks for your continued help
-
Typo- Playback still stutters after full render. Exporting gives me a file that is fine however.
-
The external worked fine with no slow-down in Pro 1.5.1.
And I noticed a typo, it doesn’t playback normal after rendering, only after export.