Del Holford
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I’m a newbie in Motion but it seems to me if you re-import the image as another layer and use 3D camera, you could lay it down and use lighting effects to get the reflective look. HTH
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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Hi,
You need to use a TrueType or Type 1 font in PS or AI and recreate the text. You can use Fontbook to add the hebrew font to your system (the same font you’re using in Word) and then use it to create text in the software. (You’ll have to restart your software after adding the font to your system.) This allows you much more flexibility in moving text around and uses the digital vector typeface so you don’t get jaggies. You can upsize or downsize and the text retains its quality. The T in your toolbox is text. HTHDel
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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Welcome to the forum
The idea is for you to be creative. Templates for what you’re seeking are available at digitaljuice.com and other websites. What you can do is use Photoshop to create the same thing. After Effects or Motion can move those backgrounds around and you can create your own template.Create a multicolor or picture background. Use filters to modify it. Cut a section for your lower thirds and delete the rest. Resize the image by cropping only the selection. Create an alpha channel for that section. Use your NLE or FX software to move the foreground around. Use the alpha to cut the hole for that exciting action. Then save, import to your NLE and add supers.
Voila!Have fun.
Del
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Charlotte Public Television
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Thanks Rick, but that only gives me Charlie Steiner’s name, no post page. Oh well.
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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Hi Ron
I still need to send our edit* to New Jersey. Is there an archive that has the teacher’s address that was posted? Can we have a “former Discreet edit*ors” forum? There was a lot of activity on that forum and I was able to connect easily with a lot of members.
I know your space has to be carefully apportioned but I hate to see it go.Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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From the description it is possible that source VITC is being transferred to your edit master. I don’t use VITC and save myself a lot of problems I used to have with BetaSP tapes. On my old Sony 9000 linear editor occasionally a tape would go screaming off in search of the number that was right there in LTC. Unless there is a specific reason for using VITC I’d turn it off and use LTC only. When transferring to D5 it might be best to lay black with matching LTC and then do an assemble edit with the same timecodes so the TC is regenerated in the machine. My $.02- HTH
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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I think Charlie kind of hit it when he talked about hearing the music in his head. When doing promos, interstitials, etc., I like to work that way. The VO has its own rhythm and pacing. I cut to that and then find a few cuts of music (SonicFirePro usually) I think will fit and then try them out. When they have the same pacing and rhythm as the VO it only takes a little tweaking of the video for the cuts to fall on the beats and still match the VO.
On long form projects it gets a bit more difficult because we don’t always have a narration track from a pro; often a scratch track from the producer or writer. So we cut to the read and then hope the professional can match the rhythm and sync of the scratch. After audio post our projects usually hit the air date with no time to tweak the cuts. Not ideal but often reality.
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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Thanks Mark
Those are excellent suggestions. Hopefully many readers will take heed.Del
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Charlotte Public Television
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[Matthew Abourezk] “It sure would be nice to spend $800 for an Apple cinema display, instead of $3,300 for the low end Sony flat panel.
Obviously, there would be trade-offs in the savings, any thoughts are greatly appreciated.”
Yes it would but as the thread has shown, that’s probably not going to happen. I’ve got a 23″ cinema display on my FCP and when playing full screen it looks good but I really don’t trust the blacks. If you are going to go HD you have to see it correctly. If you don’t buy a decent monitor (and several color critical monitors have been mentioned) you will never see it correctly. Having started HD in 2001, we have a Sony BVM 20 which cost us around $35,000 and an Ikegami 14 digital HD CRT that cost nearly that. Those are in the edit suites, not the tech cores. Fortunately the $12-20K eCinema and CineTal LCDs are being superceded by the JVC and HP/Dreamworks LCDs at much better price points. In HD you can’t trade-off quality or you’ll be hurting yourself and your clients.
The saga continues…
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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Hi
This is not a definitive answer but the main changes are those relating to video. The company should have a CD with a readme file of the new things in CS3 or you can find it online at Adobe.com.I found a speed improvement over CS2 and automation features for rotoscoping a video sequence, which I have yet to use.
Other posters can tell you more.
Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television
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