[Darren Edwards]

Re Q3: there are several nice editing keyboards out there for
Premiere. We get ours (pic missing an ‘Adobe Premiere’ badge in top
right corner of keyboard. Maybe it’s added post-factory.) …

From Siren Technology, who also bundle in a shuttle controller …

Shuttle is fully configurable.

They’re configured out of the box for PPro 1.5/CS2, so will require
reprogramming for CS3 onwards, although you’ll find that both
units will also work in After Effects with barely any reconfiguration.

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[Darren Edwards]

This issue might be resolved more quickly in the Matrox forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/matroxvideosystems

Matrox tech post there occasionally. Although don’t discount
the bugs found in PPro CS2 and 3, and the fact that you’re
running the card on a single core machine.

That said, folks like the The Bandito Bros swear by their
Matrox/AJA/PPro HD suites.

D.

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[Darren Edwards]

That is actually a really intriguing suggestion.
It’s paradoxically logical and illogical at the same
time. Definetly worth trying out if only for kicks.

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Professional broadcasters use orgs such as Audio Network.
https://www.audionetworkplc.com/sound-effects

You can preview low-bit clips, but you get what you pay for.

D.

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[Darren Edwards]

Why do I make you sorry?
D.

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[Darren Edwards]

Since my post I’ve had a squizz at the Adobe Forums and it seems
that Encore 3 is a mess for a lot of users. Why Adobe keep
churning out CS after CS as quickly as possible when there’s
a trail of tears behind each release is a mystery to me. It
doesn’t do a lot to discourage piracy either: why should anybody
be expected to pay $1000/£1000 for a box of bugs, whose faults
could potentially cost a company 10s of thousands of pounds/dollars
in lost revenue?

Am I right in thinking that nobody’s ever sued (successfully sued?)
a creative software company for loss of earnings due to a big
crash?

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

50% is a wee exaggeration, surely? Deinterlacing could possibly make
the keying process easier. May also be necessary for online/digital
monitor viewing.

There’s one or two deinterlace plugins for After Effects, although
neither those nor AE’s built in deinterlacer is recommended by many.
If you do deinterlace, probably best to do it at the end, using PPro —
after you’ve saved an interlaced version for safety of course.

When shuttling ‘i’ files back and forth AE, keep an eye on AE’s
‘Interpret Footage’ settings to make sure it’s got the field order
correct.

For the next shoot consider hiring an AJA iOHD converter box.
You’ll be able to up-rez your 1080i HDV to full 1080p during
ingest. ioHD was exclusively developed for Final Cut/Apple’s ProRes
422 codec, but now that ProRes 422 is available for PPro, things
are changing.
https://www.aja.com/html/products_Io_IoHD.html

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

One stability reason (that I found anyway), Tim, is when editing
audio to video within Audition, and barely using PPro at all
for audio mixing until it’s time to import the final mix (or final
wavs for 5.1). Although, even on the most powerful station the
video will start to lag after a couple of hours of heavy work.
– Presumably some sort of cache/virtual memory issue which was
sorted out by 3.0?

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[Darren Edwards]

For our low-end stuff we’ll probably use something like Magix.
Royality free (meaning just a mention in the credits), cheap but
full of interest, and a cool little company actually. I emailed them
once to say we’d created a great little song using just their samples,
and they got very excited about it all. Been using their libraries
for 8 years.
https://www.magix.com/uk/sound-essentials/

For broadcast (like most people) we’ll do a deal with Audio Network.
https://www.audionetworkplc.com/

In a pinch, and we’ve only got access to freebie sites, then for
individual sound effects I’ll try Sounddogs
https://www.sounddogs.com/

For something more musical, maybe a place one of guys in the
office stumbled across yesterday, Sound Snap.
https://www.soundsnap.com/

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Download some example spec files for HD acquisation and submission
to terrestrial broadcasters (BBC, ITV, etc.) here:

https://www.x-gf.com/misc/spec_papers.zip
550k

There’s three in total.

D.

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