[David Bogie]

Just guessing but I’ll bet these guys don’t have $90 to spend.

You have two choices, maybe three. Okay, four.
1. Buy the plugin.
2. Eat the mistakes and make the best of it. Be creative. Sell the effect.
3. Reshoot.
4. Use it as is.

Look backwards from the end product. What’s it worth to you or the band? Be realistic and attach some dollars to the fantasy you are weaving. If you had been paid to do this video, how much would you have charged then or their record company? How much do you owe them for the screwed up shots? How much are you going to collect from them and how much will you refund?

If you cannot make your bad shots work, you must replace them.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Null’s are genrilly used to control other objicts. Say, your gonna move some things around the screen, maybe you want many things to moove around the screen, like, for of them maybe. Create a null and move the null around but don’t until after you use an expression to all the other objictz that you want to move so their just following the null. It’s really ez.

Yes I would certainly recommend a thorough and dramatic plunge into the After Effects documentation, including the manual. However, under these circumstances, your best investment in time will be the online help system. Search for NULL.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Null’s are genrilly used to control other objicts. Say, your gonna move some things around the screen, maybe you want many things to moove around the screen, like, for of them maybe. Create a null and move the null around but don’t until after you use an expression to all the other objictz that you want to move so their just following the null. It’s really ez.

Yes I would certainly recommend a thorough and dramatic plunge into the After Effects documentation, including the manual. However, under these circumstances, your best investment in time will be the online help system. Search for NULL.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

After Effects has a simple filter that will maintain color integrity. Sorry, I’m not at my Ae machine, can’t recall the name of the filter… umm, Color Stabilizer, I think. If you know someone with AE, send them a clip and ask them to try to stabilize the whites. It’s easy and fast but not foolproof.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

In the olden days, we’d have simply shot the clock.
In the old CoSA days, we’d have built each number from scratch and animated the nested moves.

You can export individual movies of the Flip numbers out of LiveType and build your own, totally controllable, sequence. Just takes a bit of work.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Besides lighting, you need to practice.
Chromakeying is 70% production (lighting, blue/green, costumes and video format) and 30% software keying tools.
FCP’s keyer is adequate for most applications but if you’re getting paid for this project or if you are paying a crew or for a the studio, you will want to be much more prepared. You may need to learn how to do 50 Point mattes or you may need to rent a better video camera.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

The timeline doesn’t scroll. That’s what your subject line is about.
Your post is about something else entirely. Do you mean scrolling as in scanning? Are you trying to pull the playhead along?

the most common explanation for improper scrolling is you’ve got your media on your system hard drive.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

There is a seciton in the manual about color correcting and applying other effects to media for multiclips. Basically, you have to do it before you start the edit. Seems rather restrictive.

You could possibly export your clip with the corrections and rename it to match the original and then relink to the new file. A bit risky (be sure to copy the original or rename it so you don’t lose it) but the method sounds perfectly do-able. Let us know how that turns out, Bob, good luck.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Open the manual to the index.
Open the online help system.
Look for “letterbox.”
Really, it’s that easy.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

There are literally hundreds of obscure and proprietary AVI codecs but only a scant few were ever ported to the Macintosh and they all died back in the last century. Your only hope is to use a PC to convert them to Quicktime.

AVI persists only because of billions of ancient PCs.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”