David Lord
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Ok, well I’m a little more inexperienced than I thought. I was able to figure out how to use the rotobrush tool in AE, but when I apply the levels effect on a duplicate layer in AE, it affects the whole thing when I go back and look at it in premiere pro.
So basically I did this:
duplicated the layter in after effects
Used the rotobrush tool to draw mask out the subject.
Inverted it so that the background (white sheet) was showing
applied levels until it was all blurred out and one color.In after effects, it shows what I’m looking for. A washed out white background with the subject still in tact, but when i look at in in premiere pro, the whole thing is over exposed. How to I get it to apply to only the background?
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I’ll give that a try and report back, thanks!
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Ah, I’m not home at the moment, but it’s something like this if that helps. It’s just peoe with a sheet as a white background, but it’s all wrinkly. Keep in mind it’s video, not still photos. -
hey, thats what I am using. I didn’t get a chance to test out any regular AVCHD footage without converting it to DNxHD to see if that helps. For now I’m just using screen captures from my mac.
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Here’s an example of what I mean. The first photo is my original footage, the second is the exported frame with the weird patchy colors:
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Its avchd, (converted to dnxhd). I’m exporting to jpeg. I tried other formats too though and the same thing happened.
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Hey, I finally got around to testing out your method of importing, I gotta say it improved the performance drastically. Thank you for the tips. It could have been storing the files on a different hard drive than my operating system, using the media browser, or all of the above, but the AVCHD files worked great.
I wish I would have known this for the last two projects I worked on, could’ve saved me a ton of hassle, not to mention 30 bucks for the software I bought to convert the files, haha. But thanks again!
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Thanks, yeah I do copy the folders directly, I don’t even think there’s an option to drag individual clips. I just see a folder named “AVCHD”, so I copy and paste.
I’ll try using the media browser instead of import file when I get home and I’ll let you know how it goes.
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A dedicated hard drive I dont have. I have all my video files stored on the same hard drive as my OS, and everything else. I’ll have to check when I get home if the resolution is set to full.
My camera is just a little Sony Hdr CX-160. Nothing fancy, but it shoots in HD, so I got it for doing these little video projects I’m working on. Haha, thats why I was so surprised to see how quickly hard drive space is eaten up! I have no clue how people are doing longer projects. What kind of storage is typical?
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I’ve got the latest imac. 3.4Ghz i7 processor, nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2048MB card. 32MB ram. 1TB fusion hard drive (I think 130 GB are SSD).
Plus I followed some youtube video on bypassing premiere’s list of acceptable graphics cards to enable my graphics card for the GPU acceleration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSsoZUUKuM
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