[Derek Beck]

Here’s how it turned out: (the header image for https://www.1775thebook.com ). Thanks again for your help!

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

Alan,

I think you are right. I’ll play around with feathering and try to find a close match. Thank you so much for your time.

Derek

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

The original is from a B&W scan of a document that I have in PDF. I used the “Snapshot Tool” to select the text I wanted and captured it. I then pasted it into a new image in Photoshop and erased all of the noisy surroundings. The stuff you have found is stuff I missed, that was not apparent to me on the grey and white checkboard transparent background.

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

Alan,

Thanks again. I guess I didn’t quite follow your instructions on the first post exactly to the T, but have now reproduced your results. I understand the feathering approach you suggest, but I’m looking to try to more precisely keep the pixels as they are on the original, only red, mostly because I’m a perfectionist, and this is a snippet of a historical handwriting that I am trying to preserve as much as possible as the original.

With that said, is there another way to do this, to replace the pixels one for one with their “opacity” preserved, such that the central pixels being 100% black become pixels of 100% red, and the edge pixels that are say 50% black and 50% white become 50% red and 50% white (or really, I’d like ’em to become 50% red, 50% transparent)?

Why does color replacer not seem to work on this? Or any other adjustment filter I try?

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

very strange…. could it be b/c i’m using photoshop cs3? a bug?

I notice on my version (test2 above), your method clips off all of the gradual fade around the edges too, so that the it becomes either red or black, with no shaded or soft edges in between.

in any event, is there another way to go about it then? perhaps a mask (the element I have the least skill with in photoshop)?

derek

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

Thanks Alan, but the result is what I was finding when I toyed with other adjustment layes: that is: the white edges around the two marks turn color, but the black remains, as is seen here: https://www.cartala.com/test2.psd

Thanks,
Derek

Derek Beck

[Derek Beck]

Thanks for the reply, but I guess I’m not quite following what I should do, other than set Encore to Dolby. Should I still export the mpeg elements from Premiere?

Thanks,
Derek

[Derek Beck]

I seem to have tried it both ways in Encore, Dolby or PCM, with no benefit or apparent affect either way. I have the audio elements themselves set to automatic transcode.

Thanks, Derek

[Derek Beck]

Okay, I’ve tried exporting the end credits as AVI, re-importing it and integrating it into the timeline, exported as elemental MPEG (VBR 1 pass min 4 target 6 max 7 mbps bitrate). Yet building the project in Encore leads to the same “timeline over bitrate” in the same area of the rolling credits.

Could it be the audio somehow?

[Derek Beck]

Thanks for the reply.

For the two audio files on the “movie” timeline, the one I’m trying to export to AVI:

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\audio commentary FINAL.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 255.3 MB
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:23:14:15660
Average Data Rate: 187 KB / second

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\Mixed Audio FINAL.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 255.3 MB
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:23:14:15660
Average Data Rate: 187 KB / second

plus end credit music:

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\Almost Free\Bass.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 12.0 MB
Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz – 16 bit – Mono
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Mono
Total Duration: 00:02:22:16930
Average Data Rate: 86 KB / second

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\Almost Free\Drums.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 24.0 MB
Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:02:22:16930
Average Data Rate: 172 KB / second

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\Almost Free\Guitar.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 12.0 MB
Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz – 16 bit – Mono
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Mono
Total Duration: 00:02:22:16930
Average Data Rate: 86 KB / second

File Path: F:\A Matter of National Security\Almost Free\Vocals.wav
Type: Windows WAVE audio file
File Size: 24.0 MB
Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:02:22:16930
Average Data Rate: 172 KB / second

In Project Settings, audio settings: set to 48kHz.

You didn’t ask about the video, but all of it is DVAVI for the most part. Some is uncompressed AVI elements.

Thanks, Derek