[Jason Harris]

I appreciate the replys,

12 hours later i have a beautifully done flv file

YAAAYYY adobe

when i get a bit more patience i will post ALL THE DETAILS and maybe we CAN figure out what happend

I DONT PIRATE

[Jason Harris]

ok everyone

first THANKS for all the help, nice to know so many people are helpful out here

2nd i got QT to work (QT was not installed on the machine beforehand lol)

What i did was

1. made a quicktime (highest resolution possible) movie output of the TRANSPARENT lower third empty of all titleing, but containing the animation

2. imported this movie into ppro,

3. added the live feed video over this imported transaprent video

4. created TWO title templates, one with time/date, story title, and place title, and one other for live reporter names

all in all it worked as you can see at

163_ncrlivecowanaftermathjuly162009.flv.zip

a couple of things i didnt like was, no matter how well i raised the output video it didnt have clean sharp lines to the lower third, even after i remove the deinterlace, so if anyone has another take on that im all ears,

I noticed when i imported the MOV file it DID NOT line up on the program panel, im not sure why but it was severely clipped to the left of the live, so bad it didnt even show that part, and of course the final rendered flash movie clipped a tiny bit as well, thoughts on that

let me know how we did, it remains to be seen whether this will be used as the long term solution for our lower thirds, but i like the way the mov file overlayed the video out of photoshop!

[Jason Harris]

TIm alan

i have imported the psd as a sequence, just so i dont waste time am i supposed to RECREATE the whole animation part in the ppro timeline

I can get all the layers on the timeline however the animation is not there,

im in the process of trying to move the layers around, but the work is slow as for some reason ppro made everything cut off to the left, so i have to move the graphics over

thanks

[Jason Harris]

tim

your referring to the dialog box in ppro i assume, the one that says use as footage or sequence

?

[Jason Harris]

alan

I will try thisl ater, if i have success i will let you know

would have beenso much easier if i could just use the exported QUICKTIME movie from photoshop lol

but maybe that would never have worked

[Jason Harris]

Alan,

thanks for the additional help, when i said it does not import MOV what i meant to say was that when i RIGHT CLICK and select IMPORT then choose a MOV file, it says FILE FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED

as for your ideas

1. yes i do still have the psd file for the project, it contains about 14 layers, mostly all it does is rotate and fade the ncr logo through the frames, it also blinks the word LIVE when we overlay for a live report, about 18 frames in all

When you say “save the layers” i get a bit lost, are you referring to EACH layer or frame, what EXACTLY am i doing, am i saving my psd with LAYERS intact, there are so many options i need some guidance

so once i have the PSD and the “layers” imported in a new project, as a sequence, your basically telling me to take these layers and whatnot and put them on a timeline in premeire so they will play like an animation?

it seems like that would work, but then do i just NEST a seqence into another video track to create the overlay, yes what i am trying to do PROBABLY seems simple

thanks for all the help!

I am away from that pc but will try what you have told me when i get back to it later today, fyi im still a bit foggy on how i am EXPORTING the psd out of photoshop

lastly, was there an easier way to do this, maybe with AE i have never used it personally, every pc i have ever tried to launch it on it never opens up?

thanks again

[Jason Harris]

Tim

What i did was

I exported using “render video” out of photoshop, i set the settings to quicktime, and the output to ANIMATION, this allowed me the option to use the previously greyed out “alpha channel” however since ppro does not ALLOW quicktime MOV to import that did nothing for me, but on another note i was able to play it back in quicktime and it had nice clean lines.

I then tried AVI and several other exports to no avail, i tried outputting as an IMAGE SEQUENCE using the export in photoshop, however this resulted in some odd 270 files of photos, maybe they had alpha in them, but once i put them in ppro they didnt prove useful

I am in the process of installing AE now, having never worked with it previously maybe i have missed something, its such a shame its so difficult to do such a seemingly EASY task

Maybe this is not the right way to go, but i like ppro so i wont give up right away!

Any more advice would be great, and also thanks for the advice so far

[Jason Harris]

tIM THANKS FOR THE HELP

I need to explain a bit

Basically what i meant was that the LOWER THIRD overlay would be ON TOP (running at the SAME time) as the clip

When i tried AVI i had the same issue, my ideal thought would to be able to export the animated clip (it doesnt HAVE TO be a movie) and make it a title template, this way we can just put the TITLE (but it needs to still be animated) over ANY news clip, and we can fill in the reporters name and story title afterwards,

Like i said i have tried many file exports out of photoshop, so im a bit lost,

I have uploade a file with a (PICTURE) of the idea

157_ncrtemplate.png.zip

FYI i tried GIF but it was to pixelly in the video

[Jason Harris]

mark look on your profile

i left a note

[Jason Harris]

mark

i dont want to clutter up this forum, so i have sent you a friends request, hopefully we can use messages so i may ask you some more ?s

thanks