[David Fuku]

Hi Vince, I tried it last night and it worked! A little odd on inverting the mask and I was trying to complicate matters by adding a denoise on outside the mask and blur desaturate inside the mask.

However, my big problem is the rendering time and not being able to edit the clip.

This was an overhead shot and I let the camera roll so the entire clip was longer than what I needed “ten seconds”, I saw a youtube clip on editing in AE but I couldn’t get that to work, I didn’t see the tools.

On my MacBook Pro i7 it took 7 hours to render and I have an SSD internal and 16gb of ram.

I’ll ask another question but I need to figure out a workflow for AE…

[David Fuku]

Hi, thanks for the reply I have zero experience in AE, I guess I’ll give it a try but will need to look at some tutorials – my new life!!!

Thanks DF

[David Fuku]

I don’t know I hate windows interface, really sucks however alien ware laptops are built to the tilt! they cost as much or more than an apple.

Apple screws us (pro type) because they want the laptop to be 1/2″ thick which is ok but when my processor goes over 185 that’s the battery going bye bye too…

once it goes to battery mode that reduces the processor and graphics so performance goes too… all that said, I’m stuck because I bought two laptops..

[David Fuku]

I own two mbp 17 2.4ghz i7 and while they are fast enough SSD 500gb drive and 16gb ram, the stupid computer overheats and it stops charging!

Freaks me out, definitely a major issue! maybe the 2ghz will put out less heat but i have a giant fan and a laptop cooler with 2 fans and it drives me nuts, even photoshop makes it stop charging last week rendering 30 second film project made it stop and processing 1k images to jpg in photoshop made it stop charging down to 60% this is while it’s plugged in to AC….

overall lame design and apple sucks im my opinion and i’ve owned apples for 20 years…

[David Fuku]

The producer at time warner told me to put SD as impute and I output at hd on one master it seems fine output at 720×480 but the second master is jittery
so I did a test impute at hdv 720 and out the same as above and its fine so I wasted part of night on that nice first job!!!!

i have a video today, UCLA directing class… it’s much easier when you film it first!!!

I’ll reply tomorrow… Alex, you’re so cool!!!! I owe you if you come to LA…

[David Fuku]

OOPs

Alex you’re right 720×480 CBR 6.75 or better! h264 works, not sure why they sent the this SD version instead of an HD…

I love this forum all of you are so generous, I certainly appreciate the help I’ve received, and I realize I’m asking pretty basic questions!!!

[David Fuku]

Hi Alex, didn’t see your post, I’m on the west coast and I saw the spec sheet but I don’t have to deal with the bars and all that jazz, just the tags/vo (of course, they will tell me I do at the last second right?)

The master I have says its an apple animation 720×486 29.97 it looks HD that’s what got me stumped plus dealing with a relative totally confusing me and the Spanish versions a lot happening at the same time.

I’m outputting 720×486 h264 per the producer/editor at TWC told me to do. I tried at 720×480 not much difference but I also tried every combo I could and by far this made the video output the largest overall without being stretched or SD looking.

Plus, I have a new 5d and no one mentioned none of the standard software is not working with the Canon RAW files (stills not video) so I lost 5 days on that job. BTW if anyone doesn’t know. Canon’s DPP makes your photos look like they’re out of focus, Lightroom loses your settings and the files don’t output the same as the screen you’re color correcting in by 1-2 stops! Serious nightmare…

[David Fuku]

Hi, I ended up having to set my seq. as DV NTSC standard .9 aspect ratio
Then output as H264 720×486 maximum 5.75 target rate sq. pixel aspect 1.0
and that created the largest file with the correct safe SD area for graphics/fonts on my tags…

I didn’t know editors have to create for SD still in 2012, sort of a mind blower.. I still think it’s a good format if it was HD but whatever. I was seriously stressing out!!!

[David Fuku]

Hi Vince I will try that but Time Warner told me (it’s going to local cable tv) that the 720×486 is SD and to output 720×486 SD not sure about SD so I’ll see how it goes and report back.

[David Fuku]

Hi forgot I posted here, evidently there is a bug in the installer, it was suppose to create a folder in the application folder and calling tech support resulted in a terminal script that fixed the issue.

You’ll have to contact them since I’m on Mac…. Sorry…