[James Laruffa]

I don’t have Premier Elements, but I do have Premier Pro CS3.
I will give it a try….

Thank You

[James Laruffa]

When I do maintain,square, the video comes in as small box which then is carried through the export.

[James Laruffa]

Yes, I agree. I have never been in this situation before. I have always had to work with at least SD quality or better to start with.

But, since the low res clips cost 5 times less than the high res clips, and my client bought 7 of them, it may be hard to explain that to them.

With budgets tightening these days, and with small startups wanting to have video for their websites, I can see this happenning more and more.

Thanks,
Jim

[James Laruffa]

John,
That’s what I thought. It looks bad on my monitor while editing as expected, but looks about 85% as good when I export it back to it’s original size.

Since AE can handle any frame size, there is no loss of quality.

I would think Avid would want to support smaller size video being that so much is now happening on websites, iphones, etc. Maybe everyone is just working with standard size clips..

Thanks!!!
Jim

[James Laruffa]

Shane,
The clips are high quality, but just very small. There is no intention to ever make it larger. It is only going to be a small window within a website. The footage looks awesome, it is just small. The client saved money by purchasing clips that were a small size vs. the purchasing the full size clips and having the editor scale it down.

I have Premiere, but have not had a chance to learn it yet. I may just do the whole thing in AE since I need to do some compositing anyway.

It sounds Avid is not the solution for these types of projects.

Thanks for the reply!!!!

Jim

[James Laruffa]

Great idea!
Thanks,

Jim

[James Laruffa]

Thanks, Dan.
That’s what I thought…

How hard would it be for someone to convert the chapters to CS3? Would they just need to manually key everything in again?

I have an idea. If someone converts them to CS3 and posts them somewhere, I will return the favor by converting them to AE7 and post them for users on AE7.

If not, do you think its worth my while to do go through the book without the project files?

Thanks again for the replies.

Jim

[James Laruffa]

The error message is:

After Effects error: The file you are attempting to open was created with After Effects version 9.0×272 (Macintosh Intel) and cannot be opened with this version. See https://www.adobe.com/aftereffects for more information on upgrading your software.

I tried this on a PC running XP SP2 and Windows 7 Home Premium.

[James Laruffa]

Thanks everybody! I feel redeemed….

Happy Holidays to all.

Jim LaRuffa

[James Laruffa]

Ed,
Thanks for the reply. The 2 cameramen did actually sync their timecodes and they did do free-run time code. When you say “send timecode to cameras”, how is that accomplished? They were working with cameras with P2 and XDCAM cards.
Being that this was a 30 min show without any breaks and the final product being the entire show, vs. a 6 hour event that needs to be cut down to an hour, was my way of telling them not to turn the camera off between shots the better way of doing it? I am just curious why 2 videographers that did not know each other would tell me that I am doing it all wrong. I normally do my sync with a flash frame, or clap like you say. It is easy, and only needs to be done once. If AVID has a way to automatically make a 30 min clip from 15 minutes of video based on timecode and have blank space in between when the cameras are off, then this might make more sense. I don’t think this can be done. I am on MC 3.0. I want to work with these guys again, but I would like to have a convincing arguement if my way is better.

Thanks,
Jim