Denez Mcadoo
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It’s looks like “Simple Choker” was what I was looking for.
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Ivan, thanks a lot. I’ll try those out. I tried some of the Avid codex, but not DNxHD because this is SD footage (inherent to being burned to a DVD).
I also tried MPEG-2, though if I remember correctly the results seemed close enough to the DV25 NTSC, that I didn’t bother. Also wouldn’t re-encoding MPEG-2 (as VOB) into MPEG-2 again just be double compression (ie, loosing even more info), or would it be like putting a .zip file into another .zip file, where it’s already done it’s job and won’t compress anymore.
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I know this is an old thread, but for anyone looking to do a dual monitor set up in at least Premiere Pro creative cloud, you can go to Preferences/Playback, and under “Video Device” put a check mark next to both of your monitors, then click ok. Premiere will display a full screen of either the Program or Source monitor, which ever is active.
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Ok, but what if I want to move the anchor point with out moving the layer AND I need it to hit a precise location?
Basically, I’m bring many layers into a comp and I need them to “land” in an exact location with their anchor points being the same as well (so they will scale the same). Punching in numbers would be exact – using the “pan behind tool” is just a rough guess.
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No cutaways are being used. These are promo videos with college professors talking, so they are non professionals. They can sometimes “um”, “er”, and stutter in the middle of what is otherwise one of the few good takes.
This is definitely an editing problem, but one that should have an AE related solution if a plug-in can work in the way I’m looking to use it.
Like I said, I just saw a tutorial for an effect in Avid that does just this called Fluid Morph (it was simply dropped on the transition). I have Avid on my machine, but I haven’t touched it in over a year, and I send all the clips to After Effect anyways, so doing it there would be ideal.
If anyone has experience with Re:Flex or another morph plug-in and can vouch for it, I can just ask my company to buy it, since this is a frequent need.
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By the way, nesting the layers, then adding dissolve does not seem to work.
For a fade to black, I add a black color matte layer and manually keyframe it’s opacity.
However, I still have no work around for cross dissolves…
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I know this is an old thread, but I’m having this problem and have yet to find a good answer.
No one has really touched on it, but I think I know what is causing the problem (at least in my case).
As the opacity drops during the cross dissolve (or simple opacity drop), the key is calculating on the currently darker luminance range, the results change, and a different relationship between the two layers occurs.
I need a fix to this. My problem is that I do secondary color correction in FCP by duplicating the layer, keying out their face, and adjusting the lower layer. Cross dissolves result in the top layer fading in at a different rate then the bottom layer, and faces are visibly darker during this.