Erik Pontius
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Good to know. Thanks for the update.
Erik
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Corp stuff is usually pretty easy. Drop it in after your edit if you are using canned tracks…it’s generally used as a sound bed to bridge your soundbites together and make everything flow.
I would assume that Home Garden/Food TV stuff, you’d do something similar, drop it in afterwards matching music to the theme of the episode. In corp/hg/food, the story is still king…you’re providing information to a viewer, they could probably care less about the music as long as it suits the scene and doesn’t interfere with what’s going on.Erik
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What codec are you using to export out of AE?
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Cover your bases. Build everything in a 16×9 comp, but keep all of your important action in the center of the comp, make sure text on titles and other important elements are also within this area.
When you’re all done, you can then create an empty 4×3 comp, drop the 16×9 comp you built into this 4×3 comp. Select the 16×9 comp layer and press ctrl-alt-F to fit to frame. Press S to bring up your scale properties of the layer and click off the chain. Then copy/paste the width or height percentage into the other value depending if you want a center crop (keeping vertical resolution but losing the sides) or letterboxing (keeping the width but losing some res).Erik
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I usually just export out of AE with the animation codec set to best, millions+, straight alpha, and lower field first.
Then make sure that your import settings are set to invert alpha, rgb and lower field and import. Works like a champ.
Avid will import a premult but doesn’t do a very good job…leaves a lot of semi-transparent areas still mixed with your background. Lower field first (I’m in NTSC land) helps smooth out the edges of text a bit.Erik
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I believe that they are similar with basic commands (i/o, jkl, etc…), however, there are a couple of keyboard commands that are different between Xpress and Composer so there will be keycaps that will be different between the two (insert marker, segment mode keys, add edit), enough to be confusing and counter-productive.
I’m not sure from your post if you are buying the keyboard or Avid Xpress pro. If you’ve already got the keyboard, you could use the keycap stickers that come with Xpress to make corrections. If you’ve already got Xpress and are buying the keyboard, I’d recommend against it. The best thing to do is to get a keyboard with keycaps that match. We just got a pretty cool one from Bella that works well https://www.bella-usa.com/detail.aspx?ID=61
They have a cheaper model that is just a basic keyboard w/ keycaps as well.Erik
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For other edits, like music videos, show openers, video montages, etc.. the music is most often the driving influence behind the edit, so it’s dropped in first and the edit is built around it.
As was said earlier, in narratives, the story is king so the music is added, in most cases, afterwards to add some spice… In a lot of cases, composers are hired to write the music to suit the edit after it’s been locked.Erik
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Haven’t seen the commercial but most likely the website has been recreated/animated in a compositing app (i.e. After Effects) and then composited and manipulated to create the desired effect.
The actual video elements (actors) most likely had some sort of guide as to where the screen would be so when the events were filmed and say if the actor poked at the screen the finger wouldn’t pass a certain depth.
I once saw some of the “making of…” videos on YouTube for the HP commercials and you can see that they had a wire frame in front of the talent (a pro snowboarder in this case) to use as a visual reference to where the screen or angle of view of the camera was and the depth at which they could push their hands forward.Erik
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Make sure that you have your external hard drive attached BEFORE you start Avid up. This message will occur every time if you have an external hard drive (firewire, USB, etc..) and plug it in while Avid is running and then try to export to the drive… Always start Avid with the drive attached if you intend to export to it.
I have no idea why it gives the message it does, but that’s why it does it.Erik
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What? FW400 is 400Mb/s…DV is 25Mb/s how is that too slow?
I’ve been spitting out digital cuts via standard 1394 for years.
Am I missing something?Erik.