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Thanks Mark, Greg and Dave.
The nine angles are all from the same camera, a Canon XF100, all shot the same day with the same lighting.
I appreciate the advice.
I’m not that good with AE, so I’m not sure how to create the comps. So, do you mean that I Dynamically Link to AE, one clip at a time and pull the key there with Keylight? and then save it and have it show up in PPro again? And then make the Multic Cam with those AE clips?
Thanks again guys.

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Hi Joe! Another great suggestion. I just started with the scope in Lumetri, but I’m excited to try. Thank you.

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Thanks Dave, yes, locked down and not auto-iris. Wow, this sounds great and I can’t believe that I didn’t think of it. I’ll try it and let you all know. Sorry, I didn’t have a screen shot because the studio is in a different location from my home and I haven’t been there. Thanks again.

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Thanks Johnny. I’ll try that. Great!

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Thank you, I’ll post over in AE too.

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Thanks, I’ll post it over there.

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Sorry for the delay responding, been sick and then busy trying to make a living.

I’m dreading having to do all the exporting again as I thought the H.264 would be fine to use as I use those for Blu Ray disks, so I figured they are high quality. I mean, they do look good, but I sort of want to follow your suggestions.

Again, my original project files that I would have to export from are all scattered across internal HD’s in my system that I use for archiving, so I’m thinking I’d have to move them all back to my RAID 0 for better performance to pull the clips.

Also, I did look at the export setting in Media Encoder 2017 (latest version) and I do see a export choice (I’m on Windows 10) for Dnxhd, but if I remember correctly, there were many presets and I don’t know which one to choose.

I’d want the highest quality and file size is not an issue, so if you could please guide me on what Dnxhd preset, I’d appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

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Wow, thank you for that info, Dan. Here I am thinking my RAID 0 is doing the job, but in the back of my mind it did occur to my that too much stuff was on the USB 3 ports. I never looked into what ports are part of what Lanes, but I must do that.

I’m just very confused as I don’t want to start this enormous project the WRONG way, even though I’ll probably be able to complete it somehow by trial and error.

Again, I need to pull 5 to 20 seconds clips from completed PPro projects that are all about 1 hour in length, and those completed projects are all sitting on my internal drives that are my Archives (of course I’ve got several external drive backups of those off site).

If I only use the External USB 3 RAID 0 to assemble the project, and leave the Archived projects where they are and just have the Project refer to those clips, I guess that’s ok, but I will then be forced to LEAVE them in that exact location or else I’ll be relinking in the future should I want to work on them again, which I hate to do as you never know what can go wrong, in my experience anyway.

Now I’m thinking maybe I should open those Archived projects one by one, and then export the clips I want in the DNx format so I don’t lose quality, and then dump all those DNx files on the RAID 0 and assemble the project there, like that. For some reason, I’m feeling that even though this will be way more work (because I already have H.264 exports of all the Archived Projects already), this would be better. What do you think?

Thanks again.

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Yes, thank you, I realize that about losing data. I have two internal disks and one external disk just for backing up to an off site location.

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Thanks, but I think I’ve succeeded, almost.
Raised the screen higher, widened it to 20′.
Used to 500 watt softboxes on each side.
Used one 1,000 Lowel DP light in the center with a dimmer to light the middle of the screen (diffused it.)
Use one 1,000 Lowel DP light with a dimmer for a left side hairlight and the same on the right side.
Just painted the floor green to match the muslim screen.
3rd coat of green paint going to the floor tomorrow.
Using an Arri 650 in a softbox for the key, a 500 watt softbox for the fill.
All should be well.
Thanks.