John Young
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Pretty sure it is not your machine. I am running CS3 on a 32bit machine and dynamic link works pretty well for me. Are you using native files from the 7D in After Effects?
If you are, the h.264 mov files from the 7D are an intra-frame codec and need to be converted to something else. After effects doesn’t work with intra-frame well at all. I always export to mov animation codec when working in After Effects. -
As far as I know, these are just the ways Premiere works. I use Premiere at work and Final Cut at home. There are those little differences that I think you just have to get used to.
Also, in Final cut when changing the duration of a transition, you can click on the transition, press TAB, and type the number of frames you want for your new duration. In Premiere you have to click on the transition, go up and click on the “Effect Control” tab, click on the current duration, then type in the new duration.
All small things that, when done enough times, will become large annoyances.
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Craig- “Of course transoding to I Frame codec is going to use up a lot more hard drive space but it would be easier on the system resources.”
Is Quicktime Animation overkill? Is Quicktime Photo JPEG too much of a quality compromise? What I Frame codec do you use?
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I’ll just start things off with the basic. It is a bit more than 500 but the Canon T2i.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/675617-REG/Canon_4462B001_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T2i.html
It might be worth springing for the extra money and here is why… the images that it can captures are comparable to very expensive professional video cameras. I heard someone on this forum say that DSLR’s will give the best looking footage short of spending $20,000 on a RED. And that is with a $3,500 5D, unheard of price comparison. I have worked on independent feature films that have been shot with this camera setup (I believe he said he spent $1,300 on the whole camera setup) and the footage looks pretty great.There is a lot of stuff to reasearch and look into but the possibilities are very exciting (at least for me, does that make me weird?)
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Just read a Philip Bloom article on lenses. He said this: “It is the glass that is your investment, NOT the camera.”. Which does two things 1) makes a lot of sense and 2) changes my thinking in what I need to be purchasing.
Simple question: Does full frame L series lenses work for cropped sensor cameras (7D, T2)?
Thanks.https://philipbloom.net/2010/08/20/which-lenses-to-buy/
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I have been researching for a while and have landed on a 7D with this lens.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=WishList.jsp&A=details&Q=&sku=425812&is=USAI was thinking pretty fast but also have IS. Is the Sigma and Tamron stabilization systems just as good?
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I have also tried to open a new PP project and import the project into that. All to no avail.
Thanks for your help.
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The company I work for has a EX-1 that I shoot a lot on, and I really love it. That being said, I want to buy a camera for my personal/freelance work and I am pretty sure I’m going DSLR even though I plan on a lot of documentary/run and gun shooting.
Here is how I look at it: $8,000 for a great, easy to use camera setup (including memory, audio, etc). Or $4,000 for a 7D DSLR setup with better image quality (big sensor, shallow DOF, low light capabilities) that might be more cumbersome to use.
If you have a $30,000 budget, then maybe your thinking is different, but my thinking is: I can get a great image with $4,000, go out and start shooting (and start making money) NOW or I can save up for a 6 more months, then buy a camera and still not have the DOF and low light performance of a DSLR.
It might not be the most convenient shooting but for those reasons I think I am willing to deal with that. -
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