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This is going by memory, so it may or may not be accurate. But here are some things that might be causing the problems.
First, your Mocha project and your AE comp size should probably be the same resolution. Make your AE comp where you’re doing the corner pin 1920×1080, and then use another comp to scale it down to 1280×720 later.
The item that your pinning into the picture frame also needs to be a 1920×1080 thing. If it’s not, nest it within a 1920×1080 comp and stretch it to fill the comp frame.
Then, once you’ve pasted the Mocha track into the AE project, it’s not uncommon for the pinned item to not line up. I believe Mocha animates the x & y position data; use the anchor point attribute to move the pinned item to the correct location, and at that point, it should all line up and track correctly.
Like I said, this is from memory, so take it with a grain of salt! Others may give you more accurate advice.
– Jim
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To expand a little on John’s answer, hard drives that are formatted for the FAT32 file system are physically incapable of holding files larger than about 4 GB. The “32” in FAT32 means the file system is based on 32-bit numbers, and the largest 32 bit number is 4,294,967,296 (i.e. about 4 GB). To have files larger than 4 GB, you need to use a file system that’s based on 64-bit numbers, which would be NTFS on Windows machines.
So, you either need to convert your existing disk(s) to NTFS, or add another hard drive that you format as NTFS to support large files.
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Hello Tom,
Most GPU cards will work fine with Premiere whether they are listed as “supported” or not. The Supported list is merely the cards that Adobe has tested with. While out of the box, Premiere will not use cards not on the supported list, you can get around this by deleting the Adobe file that lists the supported cards.
I can’t tell you the specific name of the fine for CS6, because I deleted it so that Premiere would use my Quadro K4000 card. But look for text files in the Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (or whatever version you are using) with the letters GPU in it and I think you’ll figure out which it is. Delete (or rename) it, and Premiere will use your card.
Of course, if you call Adobe with a GPU issue and you’re not using a supported card, you may not get much help. But I’ve had no problem using my “unsupported” K4000, and my K2000M in my laptop, with Adobe products.
One thing I suggest you watch out for is the noise level of the GPU card. I had tried one lower-cost card whose fans were so loud I had to do all my video editing with headphones. I eventually got rid of it because it was so loud. My Quadro K4000 card is far more powerful, and is pretty much silent.
Hope this helps!
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I have a Lenovo W530 with an integrated Quadro K2000M card in it, 32 GB of memory and a RAID0 disk system and it handles Premiere quite well. Premiere really needs the high-end graphics card for good performance when editing HD.
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Some churches I know have done video wall type things (actually more environmental projection, but same implementation challenges) using Renewed Vision’s Pro Video Player software and Mac Minis. It’s intended for applications where you’re trying to coordinate video playback.
Another thing to look at is Maxtrox’s DualHeadToGo products. This would let one mac mini to see two displays as one dual-width monitor, although I doubt they go to 4K. If you did 1080p, you might be able to do two mac minis each with a DualHeadToGo so each mac controls two displays, and then used Pro Video Player to coordinate the two Mac Minis playing back the video.
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Definitely – I’ve done that.
(Going from memory here – feel free to ask for clarification if needed.) You should be able to drag another audio asset down into the timeline and have it add a second audio track. Then, in your menus, you can create buttons that select the sound track you want played. You do this by creating a link to the specific audio track. There;s a number of approaches to this.
You could have a “Play Movie in Surround” button that links to the movie timeline and selects the audio track with the surround sound file on it. Select the button, and in the properties window, click the little arrow-head button next to the Link entry. In the popup that appears, select the Specify Link option. This gives you a window to select not only the entity to link to (in this example, the timeline) but also the audio track to play.
Note that the audio track is now changes FOR THE PROJECT, not just the timeline. So, when you select Audio Track 2 in this manor, that audio track is now the default for playing all timelines in the project until it’s changed by a new selection again.
Second example: You create a submenu for Audio Setup, with a button to select stereo, and a button to select surround sound. When you select one of the two options, you want it to go back to the main menu. Have each button link to the main menu, with one selecting audio track 1, the other selecting audio track 2. Even though menus only have one audio track, this selects the default audio track to play for all timelines. If a timeline doesn’t have an audio track 2, audio track 1 will play be default.
Hope that helps!
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Hello Erin,
There could be a variety of issues that could cause your video to look “soft”. The first is focus — DSLRs can have a very shallow depth of field, especially in lower-light situations. If you have your f-stop wide open (like f2.8), and you’re zoomed in a bit, your depth of field can literally be just a few inches for clear footage. Which means that if your subject is moving around a bit, they will go in and out of focus as they drift towards and away from the camera.
What’s your ISO setting? Higher ISO settings, which you would need to shoot as the available light decreases, will add noise and decrease the crispness of the video.
When you create your sequence, what settings are you choosing? If you were to pick a sequence resolution of (for example) 1280×720, but then export to 1920×1080, that would cause softness.
Are you shooting in fully manual mode, or are you letting the camera pick settings? If you’re letting the camera pick the settings, you’re not as likely to get the best results possible. If you’re not that familiar with how the different settings affect your results, that’s worth investing some time in learning. You might find this article I did helpful: https://www.churchproduction.com/story/main/how_to_shoot_better_footage_manually
My best guess is it’s a combination of the lighting levels that you’re shooting under, the camera settings, and the focus/depth of field. The stock lenses that come with the cameras like the 60D (what I own for a DSLR) or the 70D are really hard to focus manually with great accuracy, which makes lower-light shooting for video a bit problematic. Try getting more light on your subject, and find a good balance between a higher F stop value to increase the depth of field, and higher ISO setting to get some for image brightness back up to where you need it to compensate for the higher F-stop value without adding too much noise into the picture.
Set up early before your next shoot if possible, pick what you think are the best settings, and shoot a short sample clip of you at the podium. Then, load it into your laptop and look at it full-res to see how it’s coming out, and adjust your settings until you’re getting the best you can get.
Hope that’s helpful!
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Check out the offerings from SmallHD — I use their 7″ OLED monitor and like it a lot. https://www.smallhd.com .
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First question — are you making a Bluray or a DVD disc? You talk about exporting from premiere for MPEG2 Bluray, but then talk about wanting to give the students a copy of the DVD….
If it’s DVD, export the videos for MPEG2 with a DVD setting, not Bluray, and see what happens.
Also, if it’s DVD, is this a dual-layer or single-layer project? Dual-layer writable DVDs are extremely problematic for playback, and you can expect that they will fail to play in many players. Creating two single-layer DVDs instead of one dual-layer will be much better.
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Just a shot in the dark — select the clip, go to the Clip menu, pick Audio Options, and then pick Render and Replace. Does the newly created audio file have audio content and play?