Jeff Brown
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If you would like animated packages, search for “digital juice”. They sell stock graphic backgrounds and lower third packages.
-jeff
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…and if that’s it (not to take bread from Tim’s table), you could overlay some black stripes for a quick & dirty approximation. Premiere might even have a ‘venetian blinds’ transition you could freeze partway through.
-jeff
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and to (perhaps) clarify, Flash player will play FLV files if they are embedded in, or rather, linked to a containing SWF file. It’s to separate the larger FLVs from the typically small SWF, so the interface loads quickly, and then the FLV starts streaming/playing when there is enough data downloaded. Otherwise, the nature of Flash can make the whole application wait for the entire video to download.
-jeff
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The best way to apply “opticals” such as lens flare, fire, etc., from a blank layer is to create the effect on black, then set the layer transfer mode to “screen” or “add”. I think you can do that in Premiere.
-jeff
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[David Dobson] “Animation codec is too big, anything else introduces new compression”
Almost anything else: PNG codec is smaller/more efficient than animation, and lossless. Test first, though– QTime between Mac and PC can introduce nasty gamma changes.
-jeff
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I’m not sure where you got your information: Blackmagic and AJA both provide 4:2:2 10-bit Yuv codecs with their hardware. This is considered lossless in the world of broadcast. The upper-end AJA cards will even work with 4:4:4 10-bit DPX files if you have the RAID & motherboard to support it.
-jeff
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…and don’t forget: The highest quality output starts with the highest quality input!
-jeff
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I’m still using XP 32-bit. AJA has some native filters for PPro (color correct, etc.), but many other filters would need rendering. I cannot offer much more, as I only use Premiere for limited capture and editing. I very much like the AJA board, however. If Tim K. chimes in, he can probably offer more info about PPro editing with AJA.
-jeff
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Why not just duplicate your hardware and use a Blackmagic card on the PC?
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I can tell you that the Xena works well with Combustion as an output framebuffer. You are still limited to having all data in memory, due to the way C* works.
-jeff