[Graham Macfarlane]

mpeg-streamclip works a treat!!

Thanks Kevin!

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Leo Baker & Jeff Greenberg:
The footage and premiere project settings definitely all match. I dealing with stock footage so I don’t know anything about the camera used (no meta data either).

Jeff Pullera:
I used to edit on Premiere all the time back in the pre-CS days but rarely do editing now as I focus on motion graphics in AE. As a consequence I didn’t notice the playback resolution option which I believe is new to CS5, until you mentioned it!
It was set to 1/2 and when I set it to 1 (full res), everything plays absolutely perfectly and scrubbing is not too bad either! Thanks!!

Tim Kolb:
I realise now that the dropped frames only looked like dropped frames. They were in fact extreme artifacting (reminiscent of video with too few key frames and low data rate). Action appears to swim and slip or get stuck on screen. In my case because the whole picture was in motion, everything was jamming up.

I also looked into CUDA for premiere and since my card does support it (according to Nvidia) I found the procedure to get Premiere to recognise my card (which by default it doesn’t)
Within the Premiere Pro install folder I opened the file:
cuda_supported_cards.txt
and added my card to the bottom of the list of supported cards as it is written when one runs GPUSniffer.exe (also in prem install folder) from command prompt (on PC)

Now with CUDA enabled in premiere I get Hardware mercury playback instead of just software and it scrubs like butter!

Overall very pleased now, Thanks guys!

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

What I meant was I could apply the directional blur to an oversized layer (which contains the pixels you want to blur).
An adjustment layer would blur everything bellow which may be undesired and increasing its scale will not fix the edge problem anyway.
Whilst using an oversized layer will solve the problem, I was just wondering if there was a more correct solution I may have overlooked.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

I haven’t ever actually had a need to use Twixtor within Premiere before so can’t say with any authority but I would be very surprised if twixtor was any more or less capable in Premiere than AE. It is the exact same plugin after all and should operate with all the same features. The only difference may be observed with processing speed whilst caching to RAM but I doubt this would make a large difference.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

I don’t think you can delete an X key frame without Y being deleted, and vice-versa.

Lets say you want to use only the X data from your track.
If you pick whip the X field to another null, by default the expression should read something similar to:

temp = thisComp.layer("Null 1").transform.position[0];
[temp, temp]

The result will be that the new Null X and Y will equal the tracked X value.
Change the above expression to:

temp = thisComp.layer("Null 1").transform.position[0];
[temp, X]

Where X is a number of your choosing.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Conditional are programming statements that setup a condition to be tested which either returns true or false. From this you can control program execution.
For example:

Alt click (windows) the stop watch on the Trapcode particulars particles per second field and paste this into the expression box.

pps=wiggle(1,100)
if (pps>20){
100;
}
else{
0;
}

pps is just a variable we’ve created to contain our wiggle value.
Next there is an if statement to test if pps’s value is above a certain point. If it is then the result from our code is a particles per second rate of 100 if not then its zero. Critically there are no in between values.

Animate Particulars emitter around to see the particles come on and off.
Play with the numbers to achieve different spacing of lines and gaps.

Enjoy!

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Perhaps the file extension is confusing AE/Premiere.
Have a read here:
https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406350.html
In section: MPEG-2 (MPG, M2P, M2V, M2P, M2A, M2T)

Are your AE / Premiere installs fully updated to the same point as the other machines you tried?

AE and premiere do tap into the OS for additional codec encode/decode capabilities. So if it were an issue with a non standard codec like Xvid for example I would suggest that the codec might be damaged or in need of updating. However, AE and Premiere are supposed to support MPEG-2 natively. Perhaps instead you have an MPEG-2 codec variant of some sort (maybe came with some DVD player software) installed on your machine which AE/Premiere are trying and failing to utilize? Not sure if this is possible on a Mac (I’m a PC user) so perhaps someone else can offer further insight.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Not sure about the context of your question but I would have thought it possible to stabilize fully in Mocha then bring the data back into AE onto a Null and then pick whip onto another layer/null only the X or Y stabilizing data that your interested in.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

When you add to render queue check the render settings dialogue:

Quality setting should be on best for final renders.
Resolution should also be full here too.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Can you open Mpeg2 files into Premiere Pro CS4 (if you have it on this machine)

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK