[Jonathan Shohet]

personally I would suggest instead of re-encoding the files :
Drag all the clips to an new empty sequence timeline and synchronize the video and audio. once the all the pairs are ready, link the video and audio in each of them and rename the clip as if you would have done with a subclip.
from now on, this sequence is dedicate only to these clips, to use as sources. Think of this sequence as a sort of bin.

Now you can open your main edit timeline. rearrange your workspace so you have two timeline windows open simultaniously, and position your “synchronized sources bin” timeline above your “main edit” timeline.
Now if you want to import a clip into your main edit, you can just drag and drop a clip from one timeline window to another.
You can also open the clips in the source window by double clicking on them, just as you would any other regular clip, and use clip markers and in and out points to insert or overlay them into your main edit sequence.

Sorry for the long-winded explanation, it’s actually quite a simple process once you get the hang of it, and while not as clean and simple as subclips, it’s still worth avoiding needless re-encoding IMO.

Cheers, Jon

[Jonathan Shohet]

[Craig Stewart] “If you’ve captured HD video with Sony Vegas, you’ll no doubt notice the filename extension is .m2t and After Effects won’t load these files.

I did some digging and found that it’s based on the CineForm codec which is licensed to Vegas”

That’s just completely wrong. m2t files have nothing to do with vegas or cineform. m2t are mpeg transport stream files, that’s the way sony hdv cameras record the mpeg video on tape, and vegas is merely capturing that to disk.

[Jonathan Shohet]

I’ve found MPEG Streamclip an absolute life saver for the times there is no other option than to edit from a dvd. I’d just like to point out that if you do not want to replace Quicktime with Quicktime Alternative, you don’t have to revert to an older version of Quicktime, rather you have to buy the 20$ mpeg-2 Quicktime plugin from Apple for the software to work.

Another very nice free encoding utility is called “Super”.
https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Down
It has an option of importing .vob files straight off a dvd which I’ve tested as working. While it has an option to encode to avi-dv, I’ve never tried it so I can’t say if it works. However it definatly can encode the vob into the huffYUV lossless codec which PP can work with.

[Jonathan Shohet]

Although you can copy the vob files, change their extension to mpeg and put them in premiere, they will usually exhibit the type of errors you are describing.

mpgegstreamclip is a free program that does an excellent job of transcoding dvd’s into a format you can edit, like avi-dv. check it out before you pay for additional software.

https://www.squared5.com/

[Jonathan Shohet]

I just recently created video for a theater production which had a video projection all through the show. I needed to be able to control cues and to mix together several layers of video.
I’m not an expert by any means on vj, but I have tested several vj programs, including resolume, and I ended up choosing to work with Arkaos. I ran it on a pc but it’s supposed to run on mac also. It’s not cheap but you can download a fully functional trial version which you are allowed to put to any use for I think 3 or 2 weeks.

cheers

[Jonathan Shohet]

make sure your maximum RAM cache size is not set below 60%, in your preferences -> memory & cache

[Jonathan Shohet]

hi Darby,
thanks for answering so quickly as usual
I’m using best quality, and continuously reastrize.
Maybe I’m expecting to much, there’s bound to be some jaggies on acute angles I guess, but I have in the past projected motion graphics onto a large screen and have definetly noticed this aliasing on some renders and was hoping this time to get better results.
Not quite so sure on second examination if there is a difference between shape layers and solid layers though.

[Jonathan Shohet]

thanks guys!

[Jonathan Shohet]

combustion in general lets you toggle “animate” mode on and off and choose between global changes for a property or individual keyframe changes.
I too really wish this feature would find it’s way to a future version of After Effects 🙂

[Jonathan Shohet]

If there is additional alpha information on the original layer, preventing you from using its duplicate as an alpha matte, why not just create a new solid layer, copy the mask unto it and then use it as an alpha matte instead?

cheers,
Jon

[edit] whoops, sorry, didn’t see that Darby has already answered with the same solution