[James Malamatinas]

Apologies for the late update but thanks for all your replies, they’re very useful, I’ll check them out and start experimenting!

[James Malamatinas]

Thank you both for the replies. I am using a PC so no Final Cut option I’m afraid, the Resolve Automatic Cut detector is pretty good though so I’ll definitely try that and can put switch to manual where necessary, kind of a pain that the two programs don’t work nicely, although this could just be a bad case. I’ll try exporting a few other projects and see the results.

Mark, thanks for your advice – I won’t be renaming any other clips! I figured originally that everything would be done on file name rather than clip name, but as you say the additional simplicity for me is not worth the issues it causing with the software!

[James Malamatinas]

To expand on the above, I have looked at the XML itself and the of the clips does actually have the correct file path and clip name, which make me more confused as to why Da Vinci did not detect the files either; Automatically, or when I when a selected the folder in which they’re contained.

[James Malamatinas]

Thank you Alex, that is exactly what I was looking for. I thought it would be strange that you would have to actually resize the clips. It was originally interpreting them as square 1.0 pixels.

Are you aware of any way you can make the program remember what the aspect ratio should be for that kind of footage in the future? Or is it possible to use something like Prelude to set it before you import the footage?

[James Malamatinas]

Hi Joseph, thanks so much for your reply. Whilst it completely clear you know what you’re talking about I have to admit to being a little overwhelmed!

I’m literally just starting out with trying to learn colour theory and how it ties in with digital systems, grading, monitors and camera and have in the last few days been tackling terms such colourtemperature, model and space, grey scale, gamma, hue, chromaticity, chroma, saturation, value and luminance all simultanesouly – needless to say it’s a lot to learn!

I keep going back to your answers and trying to fully comprehend it all but I’m struggling a little. Is there anyway you could try and explain each point a little more simply? For example;

[Consistent Colour Temperature] The way I’m understanding your point is that it refers to well a monitor would maintain the specific colour temperature of pixels as the brightness of the monitor is increased or decreased. Is this correct? What is D65, is it this? If so I’m finding that page difficult to interpret!

[Gamma Curve] As I understand it gamma is the encoding/decoding of light into a range which human vision can detect i.e. preventing an image from being too bright or dark. Are you saying that the S-log helps prevent inefficiencies by ensuring that bits aren’t sent to too extreme highlights or shadows? Have I got this completely wrong? I’m finding some of the maths terms (logarithmic, power-law, etc) difficult to get my head around.

As for the DCI I’am about to start reading up on that now, thanks again for your advice!

[James Malamatinas]

Thank you for your responses, I think we will go with ‘2D Animator/Motion Graphics Specialist’ as recommended.

We don’t need the video to actually be programed in HTML5 so if it was conformed to h.264 or .webm that would be absolutely fine.

I’ll be posting the job later this after so if anyone is interested it will be on the Creative Cow jobs site.

Thanks again,
James

[James Malamatinas]

Just an update – my recent export in the Camtasia format actually shows up working fine in Bridge but not Ppro!

I can an error in Ppro saying:

‘Unsupported format or damaged file’

[James Malamatinas]

To be honest I’m not sure.

I’m trying to create a short promo video which uses footage thatis a screen capture recording of someone showing a demonstration of software.

How can I do this? What software can I record the demonstration in which I will be able to edit in Premiere Pro?

Any help would be much appreciated.

My most recent attempt is capturing the footage in ‘Camstasia’ which then exports to .avi (using their own CODEC) however this is not recognised by Ppro even though I have the Codec installed.

I’m a bit stuck!

I can even edit it in Windows Movie Maker and pretty much every other video playing software; VLC, Quicktime, DivX and so forth.

Any ideas?

[James Malamatinas]

Cheers for the reply Tim. Since your post I actually read a bit more or Codecs and discovered what the issue was,

Basically the client had captured the footage in screen grab program called ‘Rendersoft CamStudio’ which unfortunately uses its own codec ‘RenderSoft CamStudio lossless Codec (LZO & GZIP compression)’ which is wrapped in a .avi format.

I used a program called G-Spot to find this all out (very good software and free!) and managed to get the CODEC however it still does not play nice with Premiere Pro.

I am simply going to have the client re-record the footage tomorrow in a more friendly format!

[James Malamatinas]

Thank you for the reply, I will get reading that page now.

The site I was looking at was the official Premiere Pro system requirements, I had just not mentioned the Quadro because I have heard they cannot be used for gaming.

I guess it is a whole different a whole different topic to discuss the benefits of those cards for design work!