David Frisk
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Thanks for the help. I’ve looked at the tutorials before, but I think I need to go back to even more basic things regarding the interface and just the way Red works in general. I think basic tutorials would be even more beneficial than more advanced things. For example…I was just playing around and I masked an object and then wanted to scale it and move it and stuff. In After Effects it’s simple…you mask it and then transform, because transforms are rendered after the mask. In Red, it appears the rendering order is the other way around, because my mask stays in place when trying to do transformation. That’s just one example of course, but I think the program is just a lot more different than AE than I initially thought it was going to be.
Maybe I’ll check out that book though, even if it is a little old now. Maybe it can at least get me started on the right track. Thanks again for the help.
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I’m guessing that either your after effects comp or your avid sequence is set to drop frame timecode while the other is set to non-drop frame.
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You could put the end of the first track on top of the beginning of the second track and fade out the top track. This method is a different way of doing it, but it’s not any easier. All it does is make you have to keep alternating video tracks, which can be a pain.
Either way, you need frames to dissolve out of and into. If the length of your clip is only long enough to put exactly where you want to begin or end in the timeline, where are you going to get the frames to dissolve out of a shot or into the next one? That’s why Premiere makes freezes of either the beginning or end of the clip if you don’t have enough to transition.
Whenever you digitize footage, you always want to grab at least a couple seconds more at the beginning and end than you think you’ll use, and now you see why.
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It doesn’t matter how long the clips are, it matters how much “handles” you have on the clip. If you use the entire one minute clip in the timeline, then you don’t have any “extra” frames to dissolve out of or into.
Look up information on Handles if you’re still having trouble.
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After you click on File/Adobe Dynamic Link/New After Effects Composition, it will obviously open up After Effects. If you want certain clips and things to be carried over to After Effects from Premiere, simply shift-click on all the clips you want (or marquee them) in Premiere, Ctrl-C to copy, and then go into your composition in After Effects and Ctrl-V to paste. The clips will be pasted into the After Effects comp in the correct order, placement, and timing. If you skipped any clips when selecting in Premiere, it will leave holes in the comp as necessary. After you’re done, just save After Effects, hop back over to Premiere, and there you’ll have a new dynamic link clip-thingy (the technical term obviously) sitting in your project window.
I agree Dynamic Link wouldn’t be as great if this ability to work with a couple of your clips in the AE Comp without importing the whole Premiere project wasn’t available…but it is.
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To fix it, we had to mess with the background. I don’t think it has to do with the luma so much as the chroma, because with the color sampling, the luma levels are retained while the chroma values get shifted. We had such contrasting colors between the letters and the background that it was creating a lot of problems. Then again, it also helped when we either lightened or darkened the background. I think that might have had to do because the lightness levels were so close, but the colors were opposite, and so shifting the luma further….wait….now I’m just confusing myself! It’s enough to drive a person nuts!
Well before I confuse myself any further, and possibly give you bad information as to what’s happening and why it is (which could very well be the case), I just know that some slight color shifting seemed to have solved my problem. It also didn’t help that my letters were fairly small and so the edges seemed to be so much more problematic than if the text were larger.
Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
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This is because of the color sampling that’s going on (all the 4:1:1 and 4:2:2 color space and stuff you hear about). Each group of pixels next to each other get averaged together for their color information. If you have a solid color within the text, then those colors will remain the same because they’re just averaging the pixels with other pixels of the same color. Near the edges of the text, however, the edges are getting sampled with those in the background and coming up with new colors.
The colors get averaged horizontally (in most cases), which is why you would see the effect in the vertical parts of the letters, and not the horizontal lines. I believe whether you use uncompressed material or not doesn’t matter, because at best it’s being output to a monitor with 4:2:2 color sampling if you have an SDI out. You’d need some type of 4:4:4 output in order to not have the problem.
Hope that helps explain your problem. I was dealing with the same issue just last week.
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Thank you…it’s good to know that I wasn’t alone in my thinking that everyone was giving Avid a MUCH harder time than Apple about pulling out. I thought I accidentally took my wife’s crazy pills…
…just kidding honey! 🙂
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Managers make decisions on how money is spent, not editors or engineers.
True, but I think that generally, post houses that edit with Avid can and do charge more than a place with FCP (generally…there’s always exceptions of course). So that probably also affects their decisions.
That’s it for me. I’m done.
I hear ya on that. Nice talking to you. I always enjoy a good debate.
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Simply because I think it’s more essential for Avid to go, as a company, and to try to reach out for new customers.
Why is it not just as important, if not more important, for Apple to do the same? Especially since this is the one place where Apple can gain control of one of the main market segments of very high end clients that Avid still holds.
From your earlier post…
The simple fact is that the great majority of the FCP clientele are not broadcasters.You stated yourself NAB is a big place for broadcasters, which you also stated that the majority of FCP users are not. So how is it “not as essential as it is for Avid” for Apple to reach out to these new customers? It’s no secret that Apple would like to take the broadcasting market from Avid, and if Apple is going to make inroads to these people, it would be at a place like NAB, not by pointing people to their website.
You realize this could go back and forth forever don’t you? 🙂