Harm Millaard
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She was completely right, bot being leftover fish and Dicky being the cat, so to sum it up you are doing a documentary on leftovers for your cat, and the one to get these leftovers from is YouTube, to be delivered to your cat, who is not yet capable of managing the remote to switch to the right channel. Poor Dicky….
Better catch your fish yourself. Dicky will appreciate that much more.
Harm Millaard
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In your case, I would just use blank footage. Nobody will notice the difference between blank footage and YouTube footage or other crap and it will make the editing a lot easier, as well as it will be significantly easier on your viewers eyes.
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AVI is just a wrapper. It can contain all kind of things. Saying you need an AVI is like saying you need an animal. It does not say what animal. Is it a lion, a salmon, a spider, a mouse, a pig, a chicken, a grasshopper, etc.
PP likes MS-DV AVI type2. Anything else may not work. So convert to that format before using PP.
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Those that know don’t tell, those that tell don’t know.
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Here you have a number of limitations of using a restricted architecture like Mac. There are only a few limited options at premium prices. In the PC world, you would have a lot of Raid controllers with expandable cache memory and BBU to choose from, supporting Raid 0, 1, 3, 5 , 6, etc. various SAS/SATA backplanes with SGPIO support and hot swappable bays that take a significant part of the pain of a failed drive out of the equation. All at more attractive prices than in the Mac world.
Harm Millaard
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Adobe is in need of a nap.
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If you have a HDV camera, the signal is 4:2:0 from tape. What does this mean:
First, let’s consider 4:2:2, the most commonly encountered color difference component sampling scheme, and the one used in the first component digital recording format, D-1. The primary sample rate in Rec. 601 is 13.5 MHz, a number compatible with 525/59.94 and 625/50 systems. In 4:2:2 sampling, the Y or luminance component is sampled at the full 13.5 MHz rate, designated as a “4” in 4:2:2.
R-Y and B-Y, the two chrominance components, are each sampled at 6.75 MHz, half the 13.5 MHz rate, and each of these is designated as a “2”.
MPEG-2 and some other compression schemes use 4:2:0 subsampling.
The net result of 4:2:0 is the same number of luminance and color difference samples as in 4:1:1, but the siting of the samples is different. In 4:2:0, a single color-difference sample is taken for each two luminance samples, such that a given line contains luminance samples and CR samples only. The line below it contains luminance samples and CB samples only.
To use 4:2:2 colorspace requires HD-SDI out, because the signal is still uncompressed. That however requires a beefy computer, live recording and a large raid array to handle the data stream, as well as a HD-SDI ingest card, for instance from AJA or BlackMagic.
With your budget that is not a feasible solution, so you have to do with a 4:2:0 colorspace.
I would suggest not using PP for chroma keying. It sucks.
For fast, easy and good quality keys I would use Ultra.
For even better results use the not that easy Keylight in AE.From the stories I read Primatte is also an excellent keyer.
Given the fact that you will be using material that is suboptimal for keying, Vince’s suggestions become even more important, especially about not overlighting the background to avoid color spill. Keep in mind that if you use a single chip camera, green screen will usually give better results than blue screen, because of the Bayer filter.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Harm Millaard
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In that price range it does not really matter what camera you choose, all will be bad to marginal, due to the encoding used. For decent results, but out of your budget, look at 4:2:2 or better cameras. It matters how you set up your lighting and what keyer you use. Ultra, Keylight or Primatte.
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You defy the DVD specs. It just is not possible to create a DVD for a set top box with WMV or anything else not MPEG2-DVD.
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Get Mozilla FireFox 3.0
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