Jerel Peterson
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I taught a video class where we did a clone of this show. For the side panel we used Photoshop graphics (with lots of layers). For the clock rundown, we just used premiere’s time code and played it in reverse.
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I looked at their user forum page last week, the newest post is over 18 months old. I can’t post a question without having a serial number or my old forum account password, and that is linked to a long defunct e-mail system.
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The ORIGINAL video was HDV, after editing I used a Matrox VFW codec (M703) and saved it as an AVI. That is the only format I still have of this basketball season. I downloaded and installed Matrox VFW but it caused Premiere to lock up on loading. I deleted the offending file from the Adobe folder, but I would think the codecs are still there to be used by VLC or Handbrake–yet they still don’t work. (handbrake comes close, nothing else works at all).
I’m in over my head with this stuff — I’ve never heard of a lot of the things I’ve been told to use for this problem!
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some progress — it looks like I made these videos back when I had a Matrox video editing board installed–I owned 3 different ones in the early 2000s, but I had thought I was finished with them by 09-10, but apparently not.
So, I downloaded the VFW Matrox codec, but with that installed, neither version of Premiere will even load up — it gets stuck on ‘Loading Exporter AVI.PRM’, which apparently is a known problem with the Matrox codec pack.
I am getting Handbrake to give me several frames per second, but not even close to 30 FPS. Anyone have any ideas as to what I need to change in Handbrake?
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VLC does worse than Handbrake — even after converting there is no video at all. When trying to play the video it says it needs to fix the index, when it gets done it says that it could not decode M703
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Windows 10
I have Premier Pro CS 6 (disc installation) installed as well as current version of CC. I would imagine I made the videos with CS 4 or CS 5 back in 09-10.
Handbrake seems like it might do the trick, but right now the video it’s giving me changes frames only every couple of seconds (I’m not very familiar with Handbrake and all the settings that may be causing this)
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Thanks for the replies. I think I’ll just have to resign myself to doing things the long way. There are a few templates that work well with an AI file, but not many. I had the feeling that there was not going to be a way to animate AI files in any real ‘artistic’ way. Hopefully, most people watching high school webcasts aren’t going to be expecting too much.
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Have I mentioned that I’m a novice at AE? I spent my life teaching in high schools with less than 150 kids (sometimes WAY less). If I were an AE master, that’s not how my career would have gone. That’s not to say that a person couldn’t learn AE in that environment, but although I would like to be able to do it, it just hasn’t been one of life’s priorities for me.
I have no idea how to do scripts. I have yet to figure out how to use right-align tab stops in AE–something that is essential in stat tables, and something that I can at least figure out how to do in AI, MS Word, InDesign, etc.
Some of the templates I have bought from the hive do have stat tables. But not a single one of them is set up to align the columns correctly. I either have to use the spacebar and get things close (but never perfectly aligned), or they use separate entries for each piece of data, which takes a LOT longer to do than AI.
You say that I could make a single comp in AE just as easily as in AI. Could you point me to a tutorial for right-aligned tab stops, or some other method to align the data?
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I’m a very novice user of AE. Sometimes I can figure out an acceptable way of changing the motion/animation of a template, but not often.
All I’ve done so far is make a stat template in AI (for instance, a table with 8 players and 6 stats for each player), then import that in to the AE comp that holds the original various stat layers. I hide the original stats, and then use a simple mask layer that usually expands from upper left to lower right to reveal the stats. Of course, this almost never matches the animation of the original background graphic in AE. (usually the text of the stats are shown above colored rectangles, and often these background items are animated in one-at-a-time, and the stats animate to match the background elements). So, bringing in a single AI file with all the stats in a single file can’t be animated to match how the original background elements animate on to the screen.
I just figured that someone adept in AE could make a second option to bring in a single AI file and include a different background that could be animated together with the stat file when coming on-screen. I know it wouldn’t have the flexibility of animating each element separately, but I’m getting tired of having to enter dozens of separate text entries each time I need to update stats.
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I did the same — I realized that there was an option to download previous versions, and I found that everything worked with 17. (I’m only an occasional hobbyist user of AE and Premiere, so I’m often befuddled by the updates)
