[Erik Pontius]

Along with adding effects, you can also duplicate layers of the same video on top of each other changing the transfer modes (overlay, add, multiply, soft light, etc…) and adjusting the transparency of the layers to enhance various qualities, darken the dark areas keeping your highlights, etc…

Or you can get Andrew Kramer’s “Film Magic Pro” AE presets from his website. https://www.videocopilot.net/fmp.html

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

The corner pin in the motion tracker should probably do the trick as long as all four corners are visible…if during the dolly track your actor’s body obstructs the corner you might need to massage the keyframes to correct it.
I did something similar a few years back with video of a couple on a couch watching a wall mounted plasma. The camera crabbed, panned and zoomed out of a shot where the plasma filled almost the entire screen to a shot of the couple on the couch. Corner pin worked pretty well with only some minor tweaks.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Yes and no. DTV is the means of transmission…a digital signal over certain frequencies versus analog. HDTV is a subset of the DTV signals in ATSC…the higher ones.
DTV can still be SD, as the majority of content current going over DTV off the air antennas is still SD material.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Probably. I read a “making of” in a magazine a while back. They had the process for how they shot the Charlie Sheen “Major League” commercial. Just some green screen, some creative camera angles, and editing.
So entirely possible to do it in AE, I would think.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Unmult is the way to go. Add your lens flare to a solid black solid layer, then add the unmultiply to remove the black, leaving your lens flare.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

What do you mean by “stabilized in AE”? Do you have clips with jumpy camera work you are trying to smooth out with AE tracker tools “motion stabilization”? If so, I wouldn’t recommend converting to PAL just yet because of the frame rate differences between NTSC (29.97) and PAL (25).

Probably better to do all your work in HD before downconverting to NTSC . If your end result is going to be PAL it might be better to do this with an application like Canopus Procoder or similiar transcoding software that can properly handle the framerate differences (Avid will probably do a less than desirable job at this) or see if there is a video duplication house that can do the conversion with a dedicated hardware standards converter.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Like an oscillating waveform?

Aharon did a tut on it a while back.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/waveform_1/index.html

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Do you have a drive that is formatted Fat32? The Mac would be able to read the drive. Avid breaks the media into 2gb chunks.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

You’ll need to apply the effect to each layer. “All masks” doesn’t effect every mask in your composition, just all the masks for that one layer. Since you have multiple layers with masks, you’ll need to add the effect to each layer.

Erik

[Erik Pontius]

Export your clips/sequences in Avid’s DNxHD 145 codec.
If you AE box isn’t also your Avid box, you can download the Avid QT codecs and install them on systems without Avid.
In AE you’ll most likely need to interpret your footage as “upper field first”. After you are done, you can export your comps back out of AE using the Avid DNxHD codec. This will import nicely back into Avid.
Do some tests…see if the quality will work for you.

Erik