Jim Arcon
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Most of us would agree that the titler needs to be able to magnify larger and maybe have a grid. I solved the alignment problem with a grid (scanned, I think) that I import into the project as a jpeg. Drag it to the timeline, layout the title over it, then clear it from the timeline.
If you want to really get fancy, you can even make it partly transparent, then put it above the layer you are titling.
Yeah, not a great substitute for the real thing, but Premiere’s current titler is a LOT better than it used to be.
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Its not just you…. I also get this same message whenever I open one program that uses the RTX100, close that program, then open another. For instance, if I use the RTX with AE, close AE and open PPro, I get the message. I have to shut down between using the different programs if I want to see them display on my NTSC monitor.
Shouldn’t be that way, but it is on my Dell8400 with 3.4ghz and WinXP Pro. My guess is that Matrox is not releasing something when the program closes
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“…I beg to differ. AE is where I do my animated text…”
Actually I do agree with you on that point. What I meant to say was that PPro has a very good titler AND I can’t seem to import those titles into AE AND I am puzzled as to why Adobe does that.
For animated titling, AE is far better than Premiere.
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“…AE is capable of do anything premiere can do…”
Well, …almost anything. PPro has a wonderful titler (for an NLE), but I have not found a way to move those titles to AE. What exactly was Adobe thinking here?
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What you see is probably an infrared focusing light from the camera, or from the flash.
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I have had pretty good luck just copying the filter files from PS over to the AE folder. Most of them work just like they do in PS.
Jim
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We just don’t know how good we have it with digital, unless you’ve edited with VHS.
VHS (most analog video recording, actually) has some ‘interesting’ characteristics and copies of copies tend to make them worse. Color in VHS is handled as ‘color-under’ from an engineering standpoint. That means it has much less resolution than the luminance – and the luma didn’t have much resolution to start.
Chroma saturation tends to vary all over the map, with reds blooming/smearing and getting very noisy – the noise tended to look almost like noisy horizontal lines of blue. Color also becomes very cartoon-ish, that is to say no subtle gradations. Purples or browns gets the short-shift in NTSC and just about disappears in VHS-NTSC.
Most of the time, a copy of a copy caused the color to shift downward (and sometimes toward the right) from the luma, by a line or two. There was often a whitish or bluish vertical bar down the right side of the image.
Tracking problems in VHS show up as noisy horizontal areas in the picture, maybe occupying 1/4 of the height. Dropouts look like random white horizontal lines about 1/25th of the width of the picture.
VHS always has a noisy line or two a couple of lines from the bottom of the pic, where the head switches to the next frame. The switch point dithered or ‘danced’ back and forth a bit. Multi-copies would have several of these. Most copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy will have a “hook” in the top of the picture where the upper 10% or so of the picture will be skewed to the right or to the left, or even flag-wave back and forth. The edges of multi-copied tapes also had ripples or flag-waving. The head-switching sometimes caused the whole image to bounce up or down by a line or two.
Sound was pretty low-fi with maybe an 6-8K upper cutoff. Most VHS recorders use automatic volume control and by the third or fourth generation, the sound was pretty compressed. Or even breathing a bit.
There are plug-ins that have been mentioned that do at least some of these effects. You could probably duplicate most of them with the standard AE effects.
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Thanks, I will try this.
Sounds like the choice may be Audition or Nero, but maybe not both.
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Well, the heading of course should read “does NOT see” and I’m still stumped.
My Dell 8400 has both a CD burner and a CD/DVD burner-Audition seems to not know either one is there. I’ve even tried reinstalling Audition and no help.
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Mark,
You are right on target regards the copying part. I once did a labor-of-love production for my son’s marching band. Cute little compilation of the whole season, competitions, etc all boiled down to a 30-minute highlight program with lots of close-ups, sound-bites, titles, credits, etc. This was before DV, so it was produced on S-VHS and took some serious time to put together.
It was shown on the “big-screen 54-inch projection TV” at the annual dinner and EVERYONE wanted a copy. I had 60-copies made (at over$3 each – it was the weekend and everyone was in a hurry.) I left them with the band teacher and told him he could charge no more than a $4 each price tag – the extra half-buck each was to cover my cost of stock and some shipping costs.
Went back a week later and picked up 57-copies. One of the parents had promised to make copies for everyone if they would just bring him a blank tape, and he “was sure I wouldn’t mind.” He had taken the third-gen VHS distribution tape and made everyone a 4th gen VHS copy, so they could all save a a dollar or so, over the price of my pro-duped stuff.
Like I said, it was a labor-of-love with no intent to make me any money-but I sure didn’t plan to loose money on it! I trashed the boxes of VHS-dupes while cleaning out the basement a few years ago.