James Brady
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Luis,
This worked! The extraction & manual installation of the RED importer plugin is the way to go. RED sequence presets now show up in Premiere and R3D files import just fine with full control over clip source settings. Very nice footwork, Luis! Thank you for sharing.Interestingly, I’ve had to manually install other software updates on the same system. The root of this problem may still have something to do with Vista/Win7 security settings… but manually installing is a nice enough workaround for now!
Best,
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
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I’ve still not got it to work on the Windows Vista system. My best guess is that it has something to do with Vista/Windows 7 or 64-bit incompatibility.
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Nick:
I’d say no. Ours stopped working with both the FS-100 and via PC/DUB. Sounds like you may have a different issue. Double-check your menu settings for both the camera and the firestore.James Brady
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Toni,
Are you monitoring to an external interlaced monitor–or on the computer screen only? If your project is interlaced, some diagonal lines will appear this way on a progressive-scan monitor, but not on your final output monitor. …Just a thought.James Brady
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[Vince Becquiot] “you will likely be much better off with Win7.”
Let’s hope so!
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
http://www.resultsvideo.com -
That’s odd… I have tested it–and I am getting the 1U1L/1L2U/2U2L/2L3U… version that you want.
Although I am on 60/120hz so I have been testing this using 60i/60P.
Maybe Premeire interpolates 50/100hz differently… but I can’t imagine why.Well, sorry I couldn’t lend more help.
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Let me see if I understand “1U1L 1U12int 2U2L 2U23int etc…”.
You’re saying that when you set a clip to 50% speed, its resulting interpolated frames are made up of one upper field and one lower “blended” field? (rather than one field from each adjacent frame).If so, I cannot recreate this algorightm. Are you using Adobe Premiere Pro?
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Marcello,
Adobe Premiere Pro will do this for you:
Import your 50i footage into a 50i timeline. Set the clip’s speed to 50%. Export the slow-mo clip as a new (twice as long) 50p clip (or 50i clip–it won’t matter because Premiere will account for the i vs p on the next step…
Now, import the 50i slowmo clip into your project. Right click on the clip and select “interpret footage…”. Select “Assume this frame rate” and set the value to 50fps. Click OK. Now bring your new clip into a 50P timeline and you’re good to go. A quick frame-by-frame should show you that you have 50 unique images (albeit combined images from the original interlaced 50i). Not TRUE 50P, but unfortunately the only way to get that is to shoot it that way!Best,
JamesJames Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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You should have no problems here. Set your project to match whichever one you prefer, and the other will import just fine.
The clip that does not match the timeline setting will simply display a red “render bar” above it, indicating that it needs to be rendered for realtime playback.James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
http://www.resultsvideo.com -
Not to worry, Toni: There are tools in both Photoshop and Premeire to make your editing and replacement of graphics easier.
I’m going to agree with all the comments about simply using PSD files with no background. It’s easy, and works great–no need to generate an alpha channel, Premiere will ask you how you want to interpret PSD files (one layer at a time, merged, as a precomp, etc.).
Anyway, when you get ready to re-do your graphics: if they don’t already exist as PSD files, you can open all of your PNG’s in Photoshop and set up a macro (Photoshop calls it an “action”) to re-save them all as PSD files instead. If you need help with this I can post how later–but in the interest of keeping this reply from being ridiculously long, I’ll skip it for now.
Then, when you’re ready to replace all of your PNGs in Premiere with your new PSDs: Import all of your PSDs. Then, while holding the ALT key, click and drag PSD#1 from your project bin down to PNG#1 on your timeline. When you release the mouse button, PSD#1 will replace PNG#1 and retain all of your animation keyframes and effects. Do this with each respecive PSD/PNG and voila! It’s still a bit tedious, but it beats copy/pasting keyframes!
Hope this helps!
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
http://www.resultsvideo.com