Chuck Bolland
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The price is certainly alright. When I return from a job out of town I’ll download this for a trial and see if it does the job. thank you
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You’re starting with a solid format. I used DVCPro for a number of years before going to solid state. If you’re in the market for a new camera, you might consider a Cannon or Nikon SLR. I’m getting great results. However, they are not the answer for everything. A lot of what I’m doing requires me to move, like with a crowd (ever seen a citizen protest in the streets of Paris when 60,000 are mad?) and the SLR requires to much attention to fine focus. Better there when a video camera. But, if you’re shooting a lot of set scenes or stationary people, like you mentioned, an SLR will get you amazing shots. Are you able to do everything in Premiere? Using After Effects at all. How about any plug-ins like “Looks” or Video CoPilot?
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Glad to hear of you success. Right now I’m wrestling with trying to get the titler in PremierePro CC to load the templates. So what kind of files are you taking into your system? Its off video tape I’m guessing because you used the word “capture.” What are you chances of moving away from that and into a file capture in the camera? And, what is it your final product, DVD, Internet streaming, cable TV?
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I knew a Jerry Kemp once. Long time ago. If you are HE, then we were acquainted either in the Seattle TV market, as your and I are both producers who have once worked as reporters, or you were with an American network or new service and we met via my office in Paris. I’m still I Paris a large part of the time, but do come back to Seattle for a few weeks each year. I don’t know a thing about your issue, but do we know each other?
Chuck BollandI don’t recall that CS6 has a “capture” function. Recently when I’ve had that rare moment when I’ve need to download video tape, then I’ve still got PremierPro 5.5 that will capture. I’ve got an old Matrix card still in my computer. Everything now seems to be drag and drop files.
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You my friend, are deserving of a beer. I could not find this, no reference to this on Adobe “help” sites. I got Adobe support on the line yesterday and it took over 20 min. to be connected to a guy on a line that was so bad I could almost understand him. After minutes of him getting my account information, he told me I would be connected with the next person up the chain. Another 15 min. wait, only to explain my problem and then be told I would be called back in 15 minutes. So far, no call. Anyway, problem solved and I appreciate it very much. I live in Olympia and will be in Seattle tomorrow, to bad you live who know where, or the beer would be on me.
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PS/ Those same video/audio files taken into Premiere CS6 work just fine. CC however won’t allow the attached audio onto the timeline.
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Thank you. I am set on manual,so I’ll keep looking. I noticed my white balance switch was set on “PRST” so that could maybe be the cause. I’ve moved the selector to “A” and will test it under low light. Thank you again.
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Indeed, AME was not running. I could bring it up from the menue, but it would not come to life when requested via PremierePro. Discovered the computer was running very hot so I set the fans to run on high all the time rather than on the thermostate. It seems to have fixed that problem. This was just one of several issues I’ve been dealing with. Fixing the heat problem seems to have brought back a lot of stability to the entire system. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
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Indeed. I got the QT Pro and have converted and rendered some files. They look very bad, almost out of focus. This is just one more problem I’ve experienced with CS4 and its various programs. I’m having less than satisfactory results with the Adobe Media Encoder which seems to make a lot of my shots quite soft, like just a bit out of focus. I was assured by an Adobe engineer 3 months ago that the new edition of encoder, 4.1, would fix that. so far it hasn’t. About all I can do with my client now is send him .avi’s in the hopes because he works in the Mac environment, he must have the encoding thing down a bit better than I do. While I’m sure I’m overlooking something here, Quicktime or not, I’m getting tired of CS4 turning some well lit and focused video into something less than that.
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I’ve now taken Matrox out of the mix so it should not be an issue. As per a suggestion in another Creative Cow posting some weeks ago, I downloaded an older version of Quicktime, which the author claimed worked with CS4, whereas the latest version of QT did not. That version is: 7.4.5
I have tried other presets such as DV-NTSC and DVCPRO-50 with the same results. Adobe forums have been no help at all.
Thank you for working on this with me. If I don’t find a solution a client may be lost.