Greg Leslie
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[Walter Soyka] “I find the smaller tablets encourage wrist movement and discourage elbow movement, while larger tablets discourage wrist movement and encourage elbow movement.”
Interesting, and I can see your point. All I know is from my own experience, and the small tablet has never caused me any sort of strain — hand, wrist, elbow or arm. The only thing I miss is a scroll wheel (hint hint ELEMENT 3D).
It’d be interesting to hear others’ experiences.
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Sam, I’ve been using a small Wacom Bamboo in AE, FCP and PP for over 4 years. I’m left-handed and started using the tablet after a bout with RSI in my mouse hand as well.
Still on my original pen nib, and yes, the tablet is scratched up from all the pen miles, but it still works as good as it did on day one.
As for the size, the Bamboo is small, but I’ve become accustomed to it and it’s really no problem at all. My arm actually moves LESS with the smaller tablet.
I keep another one as a spare and for my road kit. IMHO, no reason to consider another brand.
(although there is some weirdness between Wacom and Premiere Pro on their user interface — some motions don’t work well at all in PP)
good luck,
Greg Leslie
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In the video you linked to, it looks like most of it was rebuilt, either in Photoshop or Illustrator (or AE itself) and animated in AE. In fact, probably the only real screen capture is the image manipulation going on inside the demo capture window.
Kind of depends on your project, your client and their expectations — sometimes you can get away with actual screen recordings, sometimes you might need to just animate a cursor, or build some closeup sections or menu animations. If the sequence moves quickly enough, you’d be surprised what you can get away with.
Greg Leslie
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Like all of you, I reinstalled 6.0.0 and got rid of the delay. The only problem is PP nagging about certain sequence types not being available now. At least it’s polite about it…
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Thanks, Walter — I just updated my Intensity Pro driver, but it didn’t solve the lag problem. Audio files don’t exhibit the problem, only video clips of all flavors.
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Thanks, Bill — good news and bad news, I guess. I’m not nuts, but it’s something that needs to be fixed.
I’m still waiting on Adobe (or Wacom) to acknowledge and fix the crufty Wacom handling in the UI, too. -
Just noticed: if you’re running a Mac with an “unapproved” graphics card you will need to re-add the card’s name to the cuda_supported_cards.txt text file.
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[jerry wise] “it works well for me. try it.”
Tried it. As the dissolve to bars happens, I see the background (bricks) through the chroma-keyed foreground. Am I missing something?
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[jerry wise] “you could put your scene 2 green screen and scene 2 bgd. up two tracks at the point where you want to dissolve. trim out your bottom 2 tracks so you’ll have tails for the dissolve. add a dissolve to the two upper tracks and your done. takes about 5 seconds to do and you dont have to fret about the heads and tails nightmare when nesting.”
I don’t think that would work, Jerry — if you dissolve the FG and BG separately, you’ll see the BG through the FG as the dissolve happens. Much better to nest or pre-render.
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Sorry — read upstream to see you’re using the newer Intuos line. I’ll let you know if I hear anything new.
