Joe Shapiro
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This may be a stupid question but… I haven’t found any documentation on how to use the aep. I’ve opened it in ae and plopped my video in the comp but see the sample video has some controls on it. I’m an ae newbie though. Should it be obvious to me or are there instructions somewhere that I just haven’t yet found?
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Joe Shapiro
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BUMP.
I’m with David here. This is one of the things that’s making Premiere really painful for me. Is there still no way to get universal motion keys that respect the current mode? On a similar note, still no cycle-through-modes (like r, rr for foll, ripple or t, tt, ttt, tttt for single, multiple track selection forward and backward)? This is so much easier to remember than Premiere’s multiple modifiers for each such command. It also leaves more keyboard realestate available – and would make the transition easier for both FCP7 and Avid editors.——
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I’m still using FCP 7 as my main editing platform. I keep going back to Premiere to see if I can work comfortably in it and then run into these amazing roadblocks. This one is a prime example. I really do want to switch – but when I find things like this I just wonder – what the heck is going on inside Premiere that results in all these gotchas? (I was a software developer for 15 years so this isn’t a naive question)
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Just found a free conform tool:
https://arvidtp.net/sw/lossless_frame_rate_converter.php
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My MacBook Pro has a GT 330M with a scant 256MB of VRAM. But it did do a decent enough job of running Resolve.
I’ve had Mavericks installed for months and quite like it. This is the first thing that has gotten in the way of using it.
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Joe Shapiro
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I’m on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro and it too has the No CUDA issue. Can’t just swap out the video card to solve this one. Are you all cool with a MacBook Pro purchased in 2011 being no longer usable 2.5 years later? I’m not!
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Joe Shapiro
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The help topic says to use the numeric keyboard to enter your + and digits. So far I haven’t gotten this to work on my MacBook Pro – which has no numeric keyboard. Any reason the normal + and digits don’t work?
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Joe Shapiro
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Hi Bouke
Perhaps you’re assuming the levels are more consistent than they are. There isn’t, as far as I can see, a “base setting” such that the ambiances would match in any way. If I did a simple amplify I wouldn’t have any idea how much to do it by. Some places I’ve had to double the tracks and boost by 12db to get a decent level. Others I’ve had to make 5 copies of the tracks and boost by 12db. So it seems the safest thing to normalize and then listen and adjust from there.——
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Thanks folks for the replies.
Bouke and Michael – I appreciate your point-of-view that the sound post facility will have tools and expertise much more appropriate to the task of creating a really good track. That said, my experience to date with post houses is that their rates are such that they can’t possibly spend enough time on my project to give me a really good result. The old triangle of “good, cheap, fast – pick any two” bites you.
Like many (most?) micro budget productions, the whole budget has already been spent during production. They’ll manage to raise some more funds I suspect – but not enough to pay a topnotch audio guy enough to do a credible job on a feature-length film. If you know otherwise then please point me at folks who will.
I’m sure you’re both way more knowledgable about audio than I am, but I’m not exactly a newbie either. I’ve edited seven features so far, and have never had an experience where the audio post house could spend enough time to make a good track. With our budget, the only way we have to make a quality product is to spend the time (our time) rather than the money.
So the “scratch track” I make in FCP needs to be really quite good and needs to translate to the OMF with high fidelity. If it doesn’t then the post house’s time will be burned up recreating what I already did but with far less time in which to do it.
I’m in no way saying I’m better at this than the “real” audio guys. I’m not. Just that I have the advantage of time and really caring about the project.
So – I’ll truly appreciate any help you can give me. If you want to work on the project for next to no money that’s even better. But telling me to leave the real stuff to the post guys has never worked for me at these low budgets so I’m loathe to expect otherwise for this one.
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I agree that the T2i is a fine videography choice. I don’t really agree about the kit lens though.
With large sensor cameras like these you get very shallow depth-of-field. Often shallower than you might expect – or want.
Check out a DoF calculator like https://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.htmlLet’s say you’re 10ft away from your subject and shooting with that 50mm 1.8 prime wide open. How much DoF do you have?
The DoF calculator tells me I have 10″ in focus – about 5″ in front and behind my subject. That’ll give you pretty bokeh but it’ll
also require you to do a decent job pulling focus and gives your actors very little room to move before losing focus.If I go to f/4 I get about 2 feet in focus. Still throwing the background (and foreground) plenty out-of-focus but now you’ve got
more leeway for both the focus puller and your actors. Yes, a faster lens means less lighting, but I’ve seen so much DSLR-shot
footage with hunting focus that actually distracts from the performances that I think folks have gone way overboard with our
new-found ability to shoot shallow-DoF.—
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