David Dobson
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Are you using VBR or CBR encoding for your Mpegs.
I’ve noticed the CBR makes much cleaner edges in general.
I’ve also had trouble with text from AE in PPro and have found that for still text, using the PPro Titler is superior. -
What is the final output? Is this for HD Broadcast or the Web? You can use HDV or XDCAM or DVCProHD (p2) to get smaller files sizes in HD. Definitely Archive as images sequences.
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Sounds like a bug to me.
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If you put all your clips in the same folder on that hard drive, don’t you only need to find just one clip and then the rest will be found in the same folder?
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I’m glad you figured it out, I was stumped!
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It depends on your source footage. Or the setting of your project. Assuming you are working in NTSC DV, you would use lower field first. In AE use the presets for NTSC DV, then export as best setting, NTSC DV and it will take care of the fields. Been a while since I used PPro 1.5 though…
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Double click on the clip so it opens up in the source window, then export movie (.avi) – import that into AE and do your stuff: export that to .avi and import that into PPro and cut in over the existing clip.
AE will also import entire PPro sequences and you can do effects and compositing there, but that really only works when you are DONE editing.
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If you capture via firewire, you are stuck with HDV. However, I have done this and what works best is to capture in HDV. Then create a new project in Standard Def (wide screen, though I guess you could do full screen) and then import that captured HDV footage into that project and then cut it into the timeline. You do have to resize the footage, but it’s not as tedious as it sounds PLUS you have the advantage of being able to reframe it (almost as if you shot 2 cameras!) Depending on your settings and system, you should be able to play the HDV footage unrendered in the timeline (set quality to automatic)and render it once at the end. I did this in 1080i60, but the same should apply to 720p24.
The other option is edit in 720p24 and export a standard def final when you are done. You don’t need a substantially faster system to work in HDV then DV (they have the same data rate.)
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More than good enough. Definitely upgrade to CS3.
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UPDATE:
After sending another update that did install, I still had a problem with playing back DVCProHD and even Standard Def footage. Don’t know if it’ my system or the software, but still no good for me.
MC HAS refunded my money, so I am very happy with them. If I had a system devoted JUST to AVCHD, I’d use their plugin.
I still wish Adobe would add these codecs though….