[Danny Winn]

It shouldnt take an hour, I can render my HD Mpeg2’s in just a few minutes after color keying. If you’re talking about mpeg1’s for SD clips then it should go even faster.

Sounds like maybe your system needs more RAM or a faster proccesor.

What are your system specs?

[Danny Winn]

If you select the HDTV 1080 preset (with whatever framerate matches your project) and the Mpeg2 output, your 5 minute project should be around 500 to 900 mb’s. My 30 second spots using these settings are around 68 mb’s and it’s beautiful Full HD.

[Danny Winn]

Two things,

Usually with HD you simply need to set the preview to “Draft Quality” instead of Highest Quality, that normally does the trick and it sill looks very clear since it’s HD.

If that doesn’t work, sometimes you just need to make any kind of adjustment that would make you have to render the clip(s) like adjust color slightly or anti flicker, after rendering they seem to play better for some reason, especially a non compressed HD file.

Hope that works.

[Danny Winn]

Two things,

Usually with HD you simply need to set the preview to “Draft Quality” instead of Highest Quality, that normally does the trick and it sill looks very clear since it’s HD.

If that doesn’t work, sometimes you just need to make any kind of adjustment effect/color to the clip(s) that would cause you to render it, after rendering they seem to play better, especially a non compressed HD file.

Hope that works.

[Danny Winn]

Hmmm?

What type of file is it? If it’s an uncommpressed HD file like an .avi that’s most likely the problem. HD files in most cases should usually be an Mpeg 2.

Another thing that sometimes works is to make a small adjustment to the clip like anti flicker (right click on the clip and select field optionsm then anti flicker). Then you will have to render the clip. After it has rendered see if it plays smoothly.

If that works, you can make any change you want that would make you render the clip (Doesn’t have to be anti flicker). Rendering seems to do something to make the clip play smoother.

Let me know.

[Danny Winn]

Yeah, if you’re talking about the color it looks to me like you could easily get that look by dropping the color saturation to what looks right and then maybe mess with the contrast a bit.

Doesn’t look like anything to complicated.

Good luck.

[Danny Winn]

I’ve had this happen too with my HD footage, the only thing that worked was to set the the preview quality to “Draft Quality” instead of “Highest Quality”.

Even at Draft Quality it’s still nice and clear since it’s HD footage.

Hope this helps.

[Danny Winn]

I don’t know about Vegas but the Motion Blur in After Effects is awesome!

[Danny Winn]

Yeah I agree man,

I wish PP and AE were all one big program that you could do everything in, but I’m sure it would take a NASA computer to run such a thing.

It sure seems that they could make it a lot easier than the current way of doing it though.

[Danny Winn]

Hey Josh,

You should be able to do fade to black and crossfades fairly easily in AE using keyframing and the opacity settings. Crossfade would be one clip fades up as the other fades out (you might have to stretch the fronts and backs of those clips a few frames though so they overlap for that to work). AE does have some transitions too, might see if they are in there.

It can get rather timely if you have a lot of clips to deal with but this is the only way I have been able to successfully merge PP and AE.

Best of luck

Danny Winn
youtube.com/DannyWinnVideo