[Gerry Bayne]

Not sure if anyone reads this thread anymore but I’m still confused. I am sorry to be so literal but:

Just use Keylight on this layer to eliminate spilled color, not to do any keying.

Use which controls? I play with them all but can’t seem to eliminate the noise on her gray/tan coat. Can you tell me literally which controls in Keylight you’re using to do “eliminate spilled color”?. Also when you say, “do not do any keying”, how do I un-key the duplicated layer? Do I choose another colour with the screen color tool? If I do that, like choose her skin, everything on her turns black. I really am confused on this. The key I have is great, I just have a bit of noise on her coat.

Can anyone explain more literally?

Thanks!

[Gerry Bayne]

Stereo tracks are split on the screen into top and bottom. Simply highlight the bottom track and then under the “File” menu, choose “Save Selection.” Then do the same thing to the top track. You will then have two saved mono tracks.

[Gerry Bayne]

Hi Jeff-

I was working with AVCHD and .mts files. I rendered them down to various lower non-HD formats, thinking that might help. I rendered them as windows media, avi, QT, all still locked up.

I am using Adobe CS4.

Thanks for any advice.
-Gerry

[Gerry Bayne]

I figured out something. Very interesting.

When I had used Vegas before getting Premiere, it couldn’t handle AVCHD files, so I had to render them down to AVI or QT.

I figured it might be the same here, so I loaded up an AVI file which played terribly (as mentioned in my original post) but when I loaded an AVCHD file, it played perfect.

Not sure why but it works.

[Gerry Bayne]

Anna,

Could you explain what the track you want to extend contains? Is it just something you want looped or
to just duplicate and have it repeat? There is a “duplicate track” if you right click the sound file in
multitrack view. You can repeat it as many times as you like.

-G

[Gerry Bayne]

This is great advice, folks. I appreciate it. I just want to have the vocabulary to
tell the story. And Alan, you are exactly right. It’s all about telling a narrative.

[Gerry Bayne]

Thanks for all the info guys, I really appreciate it. Vegas is fine but part of this is professional development. I can’t see myself going out to my next multimedia job with only Vegas under my belt. Most production houses use FCP I’m finding and I’d like to train in what is most marketable as well.

As for coming late to the part, my girlfriend manages a video production house (commercials, documentaries, etc) and I’ve been around the business quite a bit. I don’t feel too far behind. I’ve already shot one project and edited on Vegas.

I just want to know what the next step is for editing software, both for good web videos for my company and for me to be more marketable eventually. But then, I know you guys don’t want to create more competition, so I totally understand if I hear crickets.

Thanks again,
Gerry