Del Holford
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Look at the tutorial on exactly this topic in Cow Communications. I saw it a couple weeks ago and it my now be archived but it showed a great method for this.
Del
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Way to go Fred. As you come to experience the joys of PS CS2 you will have many questions. Sometimes you may have to (choke sputter cough) read the manual (aaargh!). There is usually someone here as well who has been there, done that and can help you through it too.
Del
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Hey G
to take advantage of the alpha, couldn’t you move the desired foreground into the frame? Then you can manipulate the foreground and save a new image. Then your alpha cuts the hole for the new image’s fill.
That way you don’t move the alpha channel, only the fill channel. Is that what you are after?Del
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Academic versions cannot be upgraded, as the price of the next Academic version is similar to the upgrade price.
Del
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Del
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When I was much younger I worked 8 hours, did an all nighter from 4 pm to 8 am, then went back on the house clock for 7.5 more hours. Everything was error free and looked good. I ran into the back of a Volvo station wagon on the way out the front gate and lost my headlights, grill, radiator, etc. and my insurance went up for 3 years. The Volvo suffered no damage.
As I get older I find I can do with less sleep, up to the point of crashing. As long as I keep inputting liquids and/or food every couple hours my body will respond. That is not to say at 100% efficiency at 2 am but with enough to get through the project.
Last October I had two back to back HD documentaries to finish in a five week period. The first one was finished on a Friday afternoon with 2 hours to spare before it’s first showing. That one took three weeks with only about 30 hours OT. The next two weeks I worked three weeks as some of the footage was still coming in from a film transfer. We had the body of the show finished on Friday morning about 8 am after working all night (began 8 am thursday) but then spent the day putting in shots from the last reel that came in FedEx about 10:30, as well as doing funding credits and audio post layoffs. I tried to do an animated map again as well (not critical but I wanted it to be really nice) but my fried brain just wouldn’t put the process together. One copy went out for a “premiere” at 5:15 pm and the actual air copy went to Master Control about 6 pm. It aired at 8 pm so I had plenty of time to spare. I worked 33.25 hours that day and had a total of 80 hours OT for the 5 weeks. May I say I have seen better planned projects? My youthful boss learned a lot about organization of projects and blown budgets. I slept well every night for the week following and took a day or two off to catch up on home and spousal maintenance.
Del
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For your purposes the broadcast systems may be overkill. A healthy server setup with lots of fast storage would play out the video without getting into broadcast quality video servers, which are in the $100K+ range and up. Check out Omneon, SeaChange, Thomson Grass Valley, and Harris Corp for information on the broadcast servers.
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This is what After Effects does well. There a multiple layers probably on a couple globals and I noticed numbers preceeded the dissolved on letters. Trish & Chris Meyers have several books out on AE and I think I’ve seen a similar effect in one of their tips & tricks tutorials in either DV or Video Systems (or some free trade mag). Google them and see what you find. Good luck.
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If the HDCam comparison you are looking for is the FDW-900 series, then with the latest models you can actually output 4:4:4 to disk with no compression. To HDCamSR you get 4:2:2 with slight compression.
Look on the camera specific forums for more info.Del
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Looks like Kabel Demi to me.
Del
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Charlotte Public Television