Gary Milligan
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[Nico Thulin] “In the effects menu I see an option for it, but it just displays numbers.”
The first set of numbers adjust the horizontal – the second set adjust the vertical. Simply click on one of the numbers to select what value you want to change. If you change the first set to ‘0’ then your anchor point will move to the left side of the frame… and the image will move accordingly so you will then have to change the horizontal ‘Position’ to ‘0’. If you change the horizontal value to 1920 then the anchor point will be on the right side of the frame (assuming you’re working with 1920 x 1080 clips). Now, if you deselect the ‘Uniform Scale’ checkbox and then change the width scale value, the image will scale from wherever the Anchor Point is.
[Nico Thulin] “I can’t visually select a corner.”
To visually select a corner, just click on the word ‘Motion’ (or the little square-ish box to the left of it) in the Effects Control window and a small circle with a cross inside will appear on your image in the program window. You can then grab that and move it to where you want. As you move it, the numbers will change accordingly.
HTH
Gary
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By default, the Anchor Point is set to the centre of the image. Try setting the Anchor Point to the edge you don’t want to move. Then it should just be a matter of positioning the image where you want it in the frame.
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Gary
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Yes, please let us know if you have any joy after getting your Mac back from the shop. As I said, I have the exact same system and the only solution for me was to get CUDA off of my machine 🙁 I haven’t updated to El Capitan yet but, from your experience, it’s good to know that wouldn’t fix it. Haven’t heard anything from the NVIDEA side of things either.
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Hi James,
I have the exact same system with one exception – I am still using Yosemite. After a bit of searching, I found disabling CUDA (actually removing it completely from my system) was the solution… not an ideal fix but I haven’t had the constant crashing. It appears to be a known issue that hopefully will be resolved soon. If you can’t do without CUDA, going back to CC 2014 is an alternative. Anyone else have an update on this?
HTH
Gary
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[E'mya Greene] “Yes, not as sharp just blocky and fuzzy the more you expand to full screen.”
Image sharpness will always suffer when you expand playback on a computer to full screen, especially if it’s a SD file.
On another note, the image quality difference between ProRes 422 and ProRes 422HQ is negligible. The biggest difference is the file size. 422HQ is used more as a working format when doing a lot of image processing (colour correction, etc.).
Good luck with your deadline.
Gary
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To me, this looks like it was done by rotating the camera when it was shot, not a post-production effect.
Gary
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[E'mya Greene] “- Exported using quicktime movie (1 Hour 20mins Video Clip)”
What codec are you using for your export (ProRes, Animation, H264, other)? How does that file look when played back?
[E'mya Greene] “Compressed it comes out right size for disc but is super pixelated.”
What do you mean by “super pixelated”? Really blocky?… or just not as sharp as the original? I’m assuming that the original footage is HD so you have to keep in mind that DVDs are SD. There’s a fair amount of scaling that has to be done to get HD to SD and this may be part of what you’re seeing.
[E'mya Greene] “I’ve then got to put it into dvd studio for titles and chapters and subsequently even worst after.”
What are you using to add titles… or do you mean menus? The graphics tools and templates provided in DVDSP are not great. If possible, build your menus using Photoshop or something similar but make sure the screen resolution and aspect ratio are the proper size so DVDSP doesn’t have to do any scaling.
How are you viewing the finished version? If you are just looking at the program screen in DVDSP then that could be the problem. You need to burn a disk and play that on a TV. Or, write the DVD to a folder on your computer and play that using your computer’s DVD player.
HTH
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I agree with Walter… USB 2 is too slow a connection. Another bottleneck might be the drive speed which should be no less than 7200 rpm. What is the speed of the Lacie drive you are using? How full is the drive? What video format are you working with (SD, HD, 4K)? How many video tracks/layers are you dealing with? What kinds of effects (if any) are you applying?
If you’ve always worked with this set-up and never had a problem until now then I would have to say you’ve been lucky.
Her’s a link to some useful info: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/784220
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Is the same font on both machines?