David Braswell
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It sounds like you have Quick Mask turned on. This shows your alpha channel to you as a red mask over your picture. Try hitting “Q” to turn it off. Regardless, to select the alpha channel, control-click it in the Channels palette. You should see the marching ants around it to indicate it’s been selected. At this point you can apply it to another layer as a mask from the menu (not sure exactly where, I use the icon) or by clicking the mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette.
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Not sure I quite understand what you’re trying to achieve. So I’ll stab at your question and probably leave it sore :-> My assumption is that you have a high-contrast (pure white, pure black) matte, and not a gradiated matte.
If you’re trying to use a matte to “knock out” sections of the still frame in PS, simply magic wand (select) the white area of the matte, highlight the video frame layer, and hit backspace or delete. If you’re trying to use the matte to key in your video editor, the process varies a bit. Sounds like you described an Avid matte, if so, place your video track on a layer. Place the matte in the layer above the video. Apply the “matte key” effect to the matte. Voila! Your black areas are transparent, your white areas keyed out.
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Avid will import pretty much anything you can play in Quicktime. Anything rendered in its Meridien codec won’t need to be converted on import. This (theoretically) saves import time. I’ve had aliasing issues with Meridien, so I export from AE using animation codecs by default.
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Thank you! I’ll have to try this out.
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Nope… question is as stated originally. An example may help.
I log 10 shots of “widget” allowing Avid to create uniquely named clips. After loading, I’m told by my shooter or producer that the “widget” is actually a “thingamajig”.
Is there a way to batch rename all “widget” clips in the bin to “thingamajig” clips? For instance, DOS allows you to do this at a command prompt in Windows.
REN widget.* thingamajig.*
I know I’m asking a lot, but this board’s users are some of the savviest.
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Visit Adobe’s website: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/main.html.
Along the right hand side of that page, near the bottom are some whitepapers on After Effecs. Take a peek. Basically AE is like Photoshop with the added dimension of motion and being able to change a filter’s effects over time. -
>But I am getting some strobo aberrations in movements and pans which are not on the >originals, not even on the m2v file Canopus created.
You may hear different opinions about this. But what I have to do to get QT ref movies to work properly is an audio and video mixdown, so that no gaps, overlays, or filler/black remain on timeline. Then make your ref mov. This has worked well using Adobe Encore.
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Since the original poster mentioned Express Pro, I should point out that it doesn’t have Animatte. (at least my XPro HD doesn’t) Another road to take maight be to create a high contrast matte in Photoshop and gradiate or blur the edges to soften the transition from original to corrected footage.
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They are in the “goodies” download. I’m guessing that the plasmwipe unlock code that buyer’s are emailed unlocks them.
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You should spend some time on the Blackmagic and Aja boards. There are hardware and software issues involved. Although Premiere Pro is resolution independent, it won’t play back uncompressed SD footage from the timeline in realtime. BlackMagic’s Decklink (and Aja I suppose, I use the Decklink card) will allow 8 bit and now 10 bit (PPro 2) realtime playback. You’ll need to spec your computer hardware per the capture card’s recommendations. Pay close attention to recommended miniumum hardware config and motherboard chipset specs! A 2 drive 10,000 RPM SATA stripe may get you started in SD res. You’ll eventually want (or need) a 4-way SATA or SCSI stripe.