Eric Lagerlof
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Thanks for your reply…What it seems to be is that I have a built-in USB camera that also uses the ksproxy.ax driver. However, even after disabling the little usb camera, and uninstalling the driver from its mitts, reinstalling the microsoft DV driver so it is under capture devices in the device manager and ksproxy.ax is still in my Windows/system32 folder…even after all that PPro 2 “can’t activate recorder…”.
When they charge as much as they do for ‘professional’ software, Adobe should make this a hell of a lot more bullet-proof than it is.
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Simon, thanks for the .pdf tip. Right now,I’m really trying to get my head around the basics with this program, so as I move things around, either with the bone tool or the move tool, I understand what I’m doing and why bone placement looks different depending which tool I’ve got. These are basics to this program. (Can’t afford another program and I like C4D.)
Naam refers to the problem, I think, when (s)he says you should fix bones when going between the bone and move tool, but the bone placement still seems to change between the two views. (i.e. same viewport, just switching tools.)
For the scene I’m currently doing (and is due in 2 weeks), I’ll be using mostly simple hand gestures and a little torso bending, so I’ll probably stick to regular IK and the pose mixer for the hands. I hope by the time I get to serious character animation, Maxon will stop fooling with the ‘cool factor’ modules and do some more development work in the character rigging area.
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Thanks Aanarav, I was hoping you or Mitch would find me as the adobe forum thread kinda died. Did as you, via Mitch411, advised. The Graph Edit shows no MS DV under video capture at all. Just a CMM PC usb camera with a file name in the Direct X category called ksproxy.ax. Graph Edit won’t tell me which particular ksproxy.ax file it is, where it is, there are 11 of them. Any ideas? What should GraphEdit be seeingand how do I find out which ksproxy.ax to turn into ksproxy.old. All of them?
Again thanks. You and Mitch 411 seem to be the only two that are up on this- so far. I wonder if Adobe is hip to this, they make no mention of this approach in there tech document.
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You can also use metadata that is embedded in the media file itself, to place keywords, author info etc. By attaching the same keywords to diffrent sets of shots, you can create “favorites folders” within Adobe Bridge, that allow you to call up sets of shots without having to either move or copy them on to different folders on your harddrive. It is also a pretty cool media file browser. I would still like to know from someone if the any of the PPro logging notes, aside from the file name, can be somehow automatically transferrred to the metadata categories in Bridge.
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I couldn’t capture HDV with the trial versions of PPro v.2, PPro 1.5, or Vegas. I believe this is a licensing issue due to them using 3rd party decoders like MainConcept. If you buy PPro v.2 you will be able to capture and edit HDV natively. On my p4 3.2 ghz laptop, with 1 gig of ram, I can capture and edit FX-1 (60i) HDV files, but while the playback on the timeline for audio happens in realtime, the picture tends to skip a bit. At that point you can decide whether to get a really fast computer, (if you don’t have one already), or get cinforms’ Aspect software which does allow for realtime playback on my laptop and better compositing quality if you start using After Effects or lots of processed layers in PPro.
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I thought I read in Charlie White’s review that the 1.5 cineform update would still work in 2.0. Perhaps this is not true? Other places I’ve read that you have to get the full Cineform App. Any experiences out there?
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Brian, you offer a good perspective, it is a tradeoff isn’t it? I was disappointed that Adobe didn’t have the snap to offer a choice between ‘native’ editing and the free Cineform plug-in that came with PPro 1.5 in the 2.0 release. Sometimes I think Adobe’s approach to developing and marketing Premiere Pro is based on their approaches to Photoshop and Illustrator. Old-Fashioned and incremmental, as though PPro was being sold primarily to big corporations that could afford the upgrades year after year. PPRo was a change in stride from Premiere but somehow they still haven’t totally clicked into the creative community of small operators or even bigger post houses all that well. I guess they sell a lot of software but here in the San Francisco Bay area, when I look for freelance jobs, I see FCP editors wanted over and over-followed by a sprinkling of Avid editors. Almost no PPro editors needed. I’m reallly torn between PPro and just hopping over to Macs and FCP for greater work ooportunities. Oh well…
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Aanarav, thanks for the reply. Here is my other HDV question. Adobe says something to the effect that editing native HDV keeps you from losing quality. But every time you cut on a non-I frame or add a dissolve or any other video processing you have to leave the MPEG world anyway, correct. So, at least in their preview clips they do what, go to an intermediate codec? Re-render to MPEG automatically? And if you are doing lots of processing, say in After Effects, is the native HDV bit really an advantage?
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All my editing is done on the newer Centrino laptop. Works just fine. My specs are 2.0ghz, 1GB RAM and an 80gb 7200 rpm drive
You’re referring to DV footage? Do you use HDV footage as well?
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Your Welcome. It’s great for sharing ideas. It’s also good at figuring outt practicl issues. Furniture that has to be moved to give you a clear angle, for instance. One of the things I liked is that if you set it up properly with the film/image size setting and get an idea of your cameras focal lengths (i.e. 8mm-96mm) then you can also see what framing your camera will really give you. How wide a frame you will really get in a 10×10 room. Practical things that can save you a lot of grief when your camera cannot give you the pictures that your imagination can. Anyway, enjoy.
Eric