David Braswell
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Thank you. I’ll try the new drivers soon as I can.
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On a Windows system, alt + backspace fills layer with foreground color, control + backspace fills with current background color.
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I don’t think there’s a special sepia filter built into AE, but you can recreate the sepia look by desaturating your photo layer (Effect–>Adjust–>Hue/Saturation). In other words, turn it black and white. Next, place a solid color layer above the photo. Choose a warm, brownish-gold color. Make it fairly saturated because you’ll blend it with the photo beneath it. Click on the switches/mode button in the timeline and experiment with the transfer mode of the solid color. Overlay, color dodge, and soft light should give some nice results. Change the intensity of the effect by changing transparency of the color layer.
To make it easier to adjust the solid layer color, you can apply the “Fill” filter. It defaults to red, but will easily allow you to tweak your final color settings.
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Well, you can use resize or a number of other tools to zoom into your FF.
But I was curious and tried it like you described. It worked OK. I exported an FF as a TIFF and used it as the target file for a P&Z applied to the FF. If it appears letterboxed on import, you probably have your “aspect ratio” and “pixel aspect settings” incorrect. Try exporting at 720×540 and importing with “maintain, square”.
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sings “I wish you would step back from that ledge…”
Sorry, I’m still new to Decklink and have spent most of my time running our A suite which is another flavor altogether 😉 I want to say the frame dropping issue was caused by fragmented and full drives, but I haven’t personally tested since last drive maintenance and a driver update to 5.4.
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Your intended use of Encore will dictate whether it’s a good fit for you. I use it for corporate client work and it’s just fine, but I’m not a heavy scripter and I don’t do multi-angle. I haven’t tried V2 yet. You can (and should) download the trial version of Encore from Adobe.
DVD Studio Pro is Apple software, so you’ll need a Mac to run it.
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We usually encode in Windows Media and place the file on our web server. That way I can code a quick HTML page with contact info and comments. I’ll place a link to the ASX file on the page. It’s fairly foolproof and I’ve had no negative comments.
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Thanks everyone for your help with this. Reversing fields and re-interlacing did fix the fielding issue.
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On a Mac here, but try these:
Illustrator: Control + scroll zooms magnification
Photoshop: Option + scroll zooms magnification
The other gripes are as Jim explained them. You get what you get. My guess is the more you dedicate yourself to the Adobe products, the less you’ll find yourself turning to Corel.
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I add things to the queue but when I open up a new project what I had previously placed in there is gone.
The rendering queue isn’t universal; it only contains compositions from the currently open project. Unless you’re handy with scripting, which can allow you to turn layers off and on and render to multiple files, you may want to design with multiple compositions in one project. Then you can place all of them in queue as usual.
The other option is to import one project into another to get at the extra comps that need rendering.