David Johnson
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This is actually not a quick question by any means and it seems it would be very beneficial for you to do some reading on video formats and codecs … there’s tons of good info out there.
To answer your question more directly, no, there is not a “one size fits all”. I’d suggest rendering from AE for the highest quality of the various formats you need, which it seems will be the HD TV, then using conversion software to compress that full-resolution master file to each of the other formats you need …
Web – Yes, FLV is a good choice and the Adobe Media Encoder that comes with Creative Suite can do that for you.
If by “20” screen computer” you mean you want a file to play back from the hard rive of a computer with a screen of that size and for it to play full-screen, convert your HD master file to something like MPG4 or H264 … the dimensions it needs to be depend on whether that 20″ screen is 4×3 or 16×9 and the resolution the monitor is set to, but 720 by something should be sufficient.
iPod – I’d suggest just taking your HD master file into QuickTime and using the iPod preset to export a copy for iPods.
As to why your DVD looks ok when stretched to full-screen but your file doesn’t, it’s because how any of the end results look depends entirely on how they were compressed and you’re probably comparing a DVD to a web-compressed file that had far more compression applied.
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Dave’s suggestions are definitely the first things to correct … I’ll just add that, since you mentioned an odd-numbered amount of RAM, there seems an increased chance that you have a mix-match set of RAM sticks … once you rule out the more obvious possibilities, you may need to consider whether your system is having RAM issues in general that are unrelated to AE, but that affect AE.
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[Dave LaRonde] “When you work in AE, large video file sizes can’t be a concern”
Very true and thanks correcting for my potentially confusing statement, Dave. I should clarify what I meant by “only as a balance between file size and not losing even more quality” … it seems that when people use WMVs or various flavors of MPGs for editing, the reason is usually that they refuse to accept (or their system can’t handle) the relatively “huge” files editing codecs naturally produce so I was trying to think of a codec that would make relatively small files since there would obviously be nothing other than file size gained from converting WMVs to Uncompressed or something similar.
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By the way, since you seem to have a direct line to Adobe, I’ll mention my two cents on the general subject in hopes it’ll get factored in to some small degree somewhere along the development line. Since it seems very unlikely any audio software will ever dethrone ProTools as the undisputed choice for audio pros, I suspect a large percentage of Audition and/or Soundbooth users are not dedicated audio pros, but video pros who also need a way to work with “that squeaky stuff that goes along with the pictures”. For that reason, ease-of-use is just as important as a feature-rich product, which is why, as much as I hate to admit it since I’m a long-time die-hard fan of all Adobe products, I actually still use Sound Forge for my audio work more often than Audition or Soundbooth … largely because I got to know it well before Adobe offered any audio tools at all and I bet I’m not the only one that scenario applies to. Just something to consider … thanks for reading my ramblings. Cheers!
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[Kush Amerasinghe] “drop a Ferrari from the tower”
Now THAT I’d pay to see … have a sneaking suspicion that the locals wouldn’t go for it either though.
[Kush Amerasinghe] “I can’t publicly talk about everything I know about this yet but stay tuned to Adobe TV for more info as they become available.”
Well considering Adobe’s long history of developing products in logical and practical ways, it seems that could be a hint at a possible melding of Audition and Soundbooth. If so, great news! And, no, I don’t expect you to confirm or deny. If not, forgive my assumption … and I’m off the the feature request page. ;~)
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Just select the copied layers and drag them over to where you want them in the timeline. Or, precompose them and drag the precomp to where you want it in the timeline
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Not sure if there are any compatible with Soundbooth, but search the web for a “vocoder plugin” … there are also standalone versions available … some of which are free.
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Unlike many plugins, BorisFX plugins typically require installation (as opposed to just copying the individual plugin files from folder to folder) since they tend to rely on other components placed on your computer during the install process.
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Did you time remap or time stretch the video layer or comp the audio is in by chance? If so, just look at this post …
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/973551#973551 -
Dave makes a very good point about needless rendering … unless you want to color grade the entire edit in AE, want to decide where you’ll add effects on-the-fly or something similar, you really don’t need to bring the entire edit into AE. If you do choose to do that, just know going into it that you may face a very long render time (depending on what you do in AE, the format you’re working with, how much footage you’re working with, the horesepower of your machine, etc.).