[Jonathan Shohet]

I also have a workstation with both cs2 and cs3 installed and working fine, but cs3 was installed on top of cs2 and not the other way round, like I need now.

No problem to install an older version on top of a newer one ?
I want to make sure before I mess up my system.

thanks again 🙂

[Jonathan Shohet]

anyone? please?
maybe a referal to another forum where someone might help out?

[Jonathan Shohet]

Hi Jan,

What you are looking for is a matte.
Easier to create in Photoshop, but can also be done in the title designer if you insist on working only within Premiere…

Create a white still frame, with black, gradiented bars on the top and bottom (size of bars determined by safe zone, amount of gradient determined by how smooth you want the fade in/out).

Position this file in a video track directly above your title in the timeline. (same duration).

Apply “Track Matte Key” effect on your title. For “Matte :” choose the video track on which you positioned your matte file, and for “Composite Using :” choose “Matte Luma”

cheers,
Jon.

[Jonathan Shohet]

If you are looking to archive your avi without loosing quality, you can always use winrar to compress, and choose to split the archive into several files with a size limit of 4.3 GB. An uncompressed 17 GB avi should fit into 2 dvds after winrar compression. The downside is it takes a very long time to compress and decompress, even with a fast computer.

[Jonathan Shohet]

I edited once progressive image sequences captured with a DSLR, in a Pal, lower field first project.
I applied opacity and duration changes to some of the clips, and in some slo-mo’s I got interlacing problems even though my source AND export settings were progressive.
When I changed my project settings to a custom Pal NO FIELDS project, all problems disappeared.
I am assuming premiere applies some effects according to the project settings and NOT source properties, so take that into account.

[Jonathan Shohet]

Look into “framegrabing” softwares, i.e. softwares designed specially for stop motion animation that grab one frame at a time from a dv camera or a digital stills camera. there are quite a few out there, and some of the more basic ones are free. most of them will also allow you to export the frames as avi or mov, although importing image sequences into AE really is no problem, and it’s the best way to do it.

check out:

https://www.stopmotionanimation.com/

a great forum for everything that has to do with stop motion, they also have a newbie guide for choosing cameras and softwares

[Jonathan Shohet]

My favorite is VirtualDub, an excellent free tool.

VirtualDubMod is a version that allows you to import mpeg and vob files.

Much more versatile and flexible solution than regular converters.
You can encode to uncompressed avi’s, and almost any codec installed on your machine, not just divx\xvid.

https://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

If you need to decode an AC3 audio stream you also need:

https://www.free-codecs.com/download/AC-3_ACM_Decompressor.htm

(also free!)

[Jonathan Shohet]

Why wouldn’t you touch it?
I thought of giving the demo a try, I would really love a good deinterlacer that works as a PP 2.0 plugin and not as standalone or via avisynth. Are there any other alternatives?

[Jonathan Shohet]

Has anybody had any experience with the Alparysoft deinterlace filter plug-in for premiere?

[Jonathan Shohet]

thanks 🙂