[David Owen]

The expression worked pretty well on position. I couldn’t figure out how to make use of it on scaling (“size”). I just set each pic’s scale to scale up from 0 to 100% over the duration. Is there an added benefit of using the script for this?

Also, when using it to present lots of pics quickly, it would create “trains” of pics in a single direction. I’m guessing it has something to do with randomization using time? How could I modify the expression to yield more random directions?

Again, thanks for your help!!

– David

[David Owen]

Andrei,

Thank you so much! I’ll give it a shot and report back.

– David

[David Owen]

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking there ought to be a way to make it happen through HDMI, but I couldn’t come up with one without a purchase. This helped me on push back… now I’m getting something. But, what to get… hmmmmm.

I know this is peripheral to this forum’s subject, but if anyone has any suggestions on an external monitor, I’d love to hear them. It needs to be in the circa 20″ realm, less than ~$2700 and be able to handle 1080p. I’d love to have the ability to have 1:1 pixel mode since I do a lot of After Effects work.

TIA!

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[David Owen]

Chris J. –

After looking into it, I found the research that was available resides in the hands of academia and requires an ‘educator’ membership/password to access it. I think the better approach might be to pursue supporting data from the marketing world and extrapolate (read: “use common sense to apply it”) to the world of video training.

Sorry I couldn’t give you a URL. If you come across something, please share it here for us all!

– David

[David Owen]

Jesse,

Thanks for your post… I’m using Audition v3. I don’t have “the settings” to offer because each segment I edit comes to me slightly differently. Generally, I don’t crush my audio. I’ll typically boost my high freqs about 6dB and apply a 4:1 ratio at ~-12dB. I watch my band meters to make sure they’re compressing peaks only and I reduce my output gain to ensure I’m not driving above 0.

My goal is to produce dialog audio with an avg RMS of ~-24dB and peaks around -12dB while creating a crisp, yet clean, result.

Spot anything in this approach? If not, any other ideas?

TIA.

– David

[David Owen]

Yeah… I realized just after hitting the “Post Direct” button that I’d overlooked that. Let the forum hear a large “DOH!” from this tired editor. Thanks, Jeff!

[David Owen]

[Vincent Becquiot] “Might be a good time to look a BlackMagic or even AJA.”

Actually, I did. My understanding was that they simply provided uncompressed i/o benefits rather than actual acceleration… thus, I opted for what appeared to be the only game in Adobe’s town.

I come from a past filled with Fast’s DVMaster (the renowned “bleeding edge”), then Canopus’ DVStorm… until Canopus and Adobe “divorced”. I long for a DVStorm (and the Canopus codec), but using Premiere rather than Edius.

– David

[David Owen]

Jan,

Thanks for the data. After talking with my dealer, we’ve concluded that the use of a Matrox codec in the project, causes Premiere to drop significant frames when trying to do a move and/or scale on an image of any size, even when NOT using the Matrox functions. To work around this, I must create a purely non-Matrox project and use Adobe’s functions only. To experience the transcoding benefits in speed offered by the Matrox RT.X2 card, I must output my project to an AVI, then transcode using the Matrox media encoding… this is a major disappointment to me.

I have just gotten the workstation back. I’ll run the benchmark and post the results as soon as possible… it may be a day or two.

Thanks to all for getting me this far. I appreciate all the suggestions and am keeping them on file!

– David

[David Owen]

Jan,

The dealer wants to know if a red render bar appears above the stills on the timeline, but still seems to preview in realtime without rendering.

And, to confirm, you ARE using PPro CS3 with no cards like a Matrox product, right?

And my final question… Is your Premiere Pro CS3 part of the suite (including AE, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) or was it installed as the standalone product?

– David

[David Owen]

Wow! That’s info that I (and others) can use. Thank you!

I’ll present this to my dealer and see if he spots anything we’ve overlooked.

Thanks to all who’ve responded. The Cow rules!

– David