David Owen
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I think the website looks good, but the camera moves detract from what you’re trying to do. It doesn’t show off the web site as much as it shows that you know how to use a camera move in AE.
You may also want to put this post in the demo reel forum. Though it’s not really a demo reel, it’s a good place for that kind of feedback.
Good luck!
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Steve,
I re-ran the auto-trace, with Task Manager running on top… never dropped below 1.4G available memory.
By the way, I made an error in my initial post… I had trimmed the clip down to the actual segment to be used. It is now a 23 second clip that auto-trace runs out to about 13 seconds and stops. It creates the layer and is fully usable, but fails to analyze the single clip past that point.
Any other ideas?
– David
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TC’s approach would do it, but here are a couple of other ways as discussed in this earlier thread:
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Absolutely! My experience has been it’s well worth it if you can afford the time. Generally, 2-pass can be more accurate with compression. File sizes can end up being a smidge smaller and quality a lot higher.
I think the question should be: Is the advantage of 2-pass compression still applicable to an AVI consisting only of stills?
I would expect not if your slide show is cuts only. Transitions, however, will be where the encoding difference would show up… they appear to encoders like motion. It takes more “studying” by the encoder to determine how it can compress the visual changes. If you have an option to “Optimize Stills”, use it.
Hope this is helpful.
– David
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Gee, since I have somehow managed to teach the gurus, does this qualify me to have my picture at the top of the forum? If so, here it is:
I’d really appreciate it, Uncle Steven & Uncle Mike.
– David
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Steven,
I don’t quite understand your distinction on this… By my applying the blur AFTER the garbage matte in the effects panel, I successfully blurred the edges of the defined matte. No hard matte edges remain. Am I missing something on this?
– David
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Steven,
Did you ever post a challenge and then hit yourself in the forehead and yell “DOH!” because you realized you knew the answer? I knew about just duplicating the clip and garbage matting it out, but I didn’t know about the track matte having the edge blur capability. The edge is the biggest challenge… I’ve applied my blur after the garbage matte, so the effect would be the same, right?
Thank you for your help.
– David
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Rachel,
The AVI output of your AVID system must be set to Type 1. Type 2 AVIs on an NTFS drive can be much larger… I’ve just completed a 141-minute avi program without problems.
Another option would be to encode your MPEG2 files from within AVID (if it is an option).
– David
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Ben,
Another option would be to separately encode the AVIs to WMVs, then use the Windows Media Stream Editor to combine them. From MS website:
“Windows Media Stream Editor. Use the stream editor to split or combine streams in existing Windows Media files to create files.”
You may also be able to use the Windows Media Editor to create a single WMV from separate AVIs… not certain, but worth checking out.
for Windows Media Encoder info click here
– David
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Okay… maybe I’ll win the award for the guy who replies the most to his own posts…
I’ve figured out that the issue must lie in the OHCI FW card or the OS (WinXP). I still have my DVStorm card in the system, (Adobe evidently refuses to work with Canopus on a driver or vice versa, so I relented to capturing via OHCI card) so I tested a partial capture using the very basic Storm Video app… both channels came over fine.
Taking the advice of Vince, I went online and downloaded the latest Scenalyzer trial version. As a prior owner of Scenalyzer (back in 2002), I had received a key to the software which is still valid… what a great company! Now, all is working beautifully via Scenalyzer and DVStorm. Not quite as perfect as working within Premiere Pro 2, but then again that may be asking a bit much. }8>o
Thanks again, Vince!