Don Huckleberry
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If you only have 5.1 available and no 2.0, then you won’t hear the center channel. You should always have a mix that’s 2.0 because not everyone has surround. I don’t remember exactly, but I think 80-90% of the information in a 5.1 is sent through the center channel so missing that would drop your amplitude quite a bit.
Don
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Unfortunately, I think they want you to buy AE for that. You can do it in FCP though, which doesn’t really help.
Don
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Rotoscoping is best done in a compositor, PPro has poor masks compared to just about any compositor. I like Fusion better than After Effects for masking and I think combustion is pretty good at it. Shake is always a good choice for Macintosh.
What type of rotoscoping are you doing?
Don
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Dave,
Hope you found it, I think it’s on the little installer when you autostart the disc. Or just look for a folder 2d3 or steadymove on your install CD.
TimK – maybe he is just assuming it’s a trial that’s limited. I am pretty sure that the there are some free plugins (the cycore I think, with Mr. Mercury and particle playground) that come with AE that are limited to DV rez.
Don
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Two things
1. I have seen this problem with PPro where you batch then it does what happened to you. I don’t remember if I rebuilt the machine or if it just started working, but it works ok now. Don’t know what to tell you other than try to delete the media and rebatch to see if it does it again. Try to duplicate the problem.
2. the first three audio tracks are stereo by default, I assume that your audio is mono (whether you wanted it that way or not) so it puts it on a mono track and just creates the track. You cannot put a mono track on a stereo track. You should be able to see if it’s mono or stereo in the bin area, I believe it will report there or right click the media in the bin and check the properties. Notice that there are mono, stereo, and 5.1 effects too and you can’t mix them either.
You will also notice that in Clip>Audio options there is a “treat as stereo” option. If you apply this to a mono clip, you can put it in the stereo track!!! WooHoo!!!
good luck
Don
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I have used the steadymove 2d3 (bundled w/premiere) with 720 p footage and it worked quite well. I was working in a DV rez project with the HDV imported into it.
don
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I don’t know what to do, it sounds like your prefs are messed up but I don’t think you can reset those any more. Did you try a new project and see if it’s still happening?
Sorry
Don
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I have seen this when there is audio that is stopping the edit from rippling (i.e. audio sycned down the line that is blocked by audio up the timeline). It’s hard to tell w/o seeing the project.
Don
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Hi,
When you open the new refrence montior, you also have to “Gang to Program Monitor”. This is under the triangle on the upper right of the reference monitor. It should work for you now. Typically, you would use one monitor (the program for example) to watch the video and the ref mon would be to view scopes. Or vice versa.
Hope this helps,
Don
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You should render a series of .tif or .tga or .png with compression on. They support alpha channel and the compression is lossless. I think .tif is smaller when compressed but render a few frames to see which one works for you. Note that depending on the video, these may not be much smaller than uncompressed.
Make sure you have the field order and frame rate set the same as you would for your video file.
This will create a series of files like
file_0001.tif
file_0002.tif
etc.Import them into PPro by selecting the first file in the series and check “numbered stills” box. It will look like a video file in the bin and PPro will treat it as so.
The audio cannot be saved with this, so you will have to lay it back to the audio from the original file or however you want to sweeten it.
Nice think with this is that if you crash or render a bad frame, etc, you can just start over where it crashed or re-render one frame and drop it in the series.
Hope this makes sense…once you get used to this, you will use it often.
Don