Eric Goldstein
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Thanks Alan,
I remember working with it (or trying to work with it) in Combustion. The problem at that time was more the bugs in Combustion…
Is there any expectation that PI will become a plug in for AE in the near future?
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Is PI the same software that is a plug in that comes with Combustion?
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com -
Elvis and others,
Thanks for the info.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Thanks Andrew and Aharon,
Aharon, I read your tutorial for working between PI and AE. Can you use tracking information in the same way to
animate something generated in PI? Also, do you use the Import file capability in PI to help designing your animations?Thanks,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Thanks for the help. Any idea when PI will bring out their AE plug in?
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Hi Diethelm,
The point I was making was that Premiere Pro 1.5 is an 8 bit application. Version 2. will be 10 bit. You can’t work in 10 bit on Premiere Pro now, except if you are working with Cineform.
Further, AVI is 8 bit not 10 bit (unlike Quicktime). Even though Premiere 2 will be a 10 bit app, anytime it interacts with AVI you will have an 8 bit result.
When you install the Cineform software it installs not only an excellent codec, but adds code to Premiere Pro, which in part rewrites the AVI (the wrapper) to allow it to use 10 bit. Currently the Cineform software works with Premiere Pro, Synthetic Apperture’s color correction software and After Effects. Also the Cineform arithmatic engine is real time, which the Premiere Pro engine is not.
As a note, Cineform is not dependent on the i/o card and can work with Deck Link as well as the AJA cards and others.
Best,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Hi,
As far as I know the Decklink cards are are 10 bit capable. As I understand it, Premiere Pro uses AVI wrappers. AVI is 8 bit not 10 bit. So, I don’t how Premiere Pro could be truly 10 bit.
There is a solution that we are working with now. We’re using a product called CineForm (www.cineform.com). Cineform is a codec that uses wavelet technology for a truly lossless compression and has a number of special features when working blue or green screen. The codec however wouldn’t work in 10 bit with Premiere Pro except that CineForm has designed an arithmatic engine that among other things modifies the AVI to accept 10 bit information.
It’s a great product, check it out.
Hope this helps,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Thanks Shane,
A couple of questions:
1) I’m actually doing the interlaced to progressive conversion in After Effects as the entire film has special effects and has to be rendered anyway. I was going to use Magic Bullet for this. So, my real question is simply how to convert the timeline from 29.97 i to
24 p. Can you simply change the project specs? Or do you have to create a new 24p project and copy the 29.97 timeline into it? Or do you have to go through some other conversion?2) Do you or does anyone have any opinion on the quality of the progressive frame conversion between Magic Bullet, DV film and Natress’s film effect?
Thanks again,
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
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Hi Vince,
I’m actually trying to to have a paint stroke follow a point on a particular layer.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com