Erik Pontius
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The footage is 720×486 (D1 resolution), MPEG-4 and is 24fps. If you dropped it into a standard DV (720×480, 29.97) project in Premiere Pro, you’re going to have problems since the settings don’t match…Premiere would have to attempt to convert everything…thus making a big mess out of it.
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Keylight does this real well. I’ve keyed some pretty horribly lit greenscreens with lots of wrinkles and shadows, spill, etc… Keylight handles it all pretty well.
I’d also recommmend Aahron’s tutorial on super tight junk mattes and Andrew Kramers tutorial on basic keying using keylight. Keylight’s bundled with AE…why not use it?Erik
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As a test you mnight also try starting a completely new project with the same settings, etc. Then importing your old project into this new one.
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Unfortunately you can’t set an audio level on capture with 1394…how it was recorded on tape is how it gets captured. If the tops of you waveforms are flat…they are flat on the tape as well.
With analog audio (such as audio from a Betacam VTR), you would set the recording level of the analog capture using the tone at the head of the tape to set the level. In that scenario, if the level for analog capture was set too high, the audio would be clipped even though the waveforms have been recorded correctly on the betacam tape. Analog audio can go well past 0db, and not suffer, however with DV audio, 0db is the max…anything above it is clipped.It might be interesting to capture the tone at the head of the tape and open Premieres mixer and see what that tone is at. -20db should have given enough head room to prevent clipping for normal conversational levels.
Possible causes for your problem, might have been if the mixer was set to “line level” output, while the camera was set to “mic level”. Some cameras also have internal limiters that could clip the audio input at the jack if the level is too hot…I think the XL1 cameras had a problem with that.
Also, If your audio guy didn’t ride the levels to lower high volume areas (screams, yells, etc…) it could have clipped.Erik
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You might try the Avid “Editing with Avid Xpress Pro HD” training DVD available from Avid. I’ve used this before and it’s not bad, basically the same material and exercises you’d get from going to the classes.
https://www.avidstore.com/index.cfm?page=templates/product_index&categoryid=42&start_row=11or the GeniusDV training “Avid Training DVD (for beginners)” DVD. The webpage also has sample clips from the training.
https://www.geniusdv.com/avid-dvd.phpBoth are around $99.
Erik
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Most video being stream uses You might expirement with encoding the video using one of the Constant Bitrate Settings “CBR” settings if you intend to stream the video from your site. This will create a file that can be “progressively” downloaded – the video will start play when a sufficient amount has been downloaded, and then it will continue to download as the viewer watches the video. As try changing up the frame rate and audio settings. Lots of streaming web video is using 15fps and lower quality audio settings (32k or less). Often times, websites might make a higher quality version available to download as well…
As far as the edit goes, I didn’t have time to watch the entire thing, but I found the quick flashes of black frames between cuts to be distracting. Might want to consider moving the clips closer together to avoid gaps between them and then adding a cross dissolve transition or something similiar.
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Know anybody with a Mac? Apple’s DVD Studio Pro has had support for multi-angle for several versions now.
Multi-angle also opens up an entire new can of worms as there are restrictions as to how the assets used in multi-angle titles are created. Most likely one of the reasons you don’t find this capability in many authoring packages. -
This just arrived in the mail the other day. I’ve done about half of the tutorials. It’s well worth the money. I’m using 6.5 and haven’t had any problems. The AE project files for each tutorial are on the disc, those might be in AE 7 format. Since you are building each project from scratch based on the steps he talks about they are not necessary. AE 7 also stuck some of the effects in different categories than 6.5, so you might have to look in the AE 6.5 equilivant for the effect.
I have to say, I’ve learned a lot from the disc so far….it’s amazing how some pretty simple steps can create a great looking comp.Erik
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I’d check out the “Creating the old TV signal look” tutorial that Aharon did. You can find it in the After Effects podcast tutorials.
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Might try making sure checking the box for “PDF compatible file” when you save the AI file.