Jon Barrie
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Digital Photo camera’s video clips are not an ‘editable’ codec. They aren’t made to be edited. If so you would have gotten editing software with the camera. If you did use that.
You can try to setup a custom desktop based project with the same codec as used by the camera but you would need to make it based on the clips properties, can see it in windows media player and quicktime. I’m guessing they open in QT and are either mp4 or 3gp files.
If you convert them to an editable format you won’t have issues.
But you will have to export them either way to the one you want to use it for? (net, phone – 3gp or mp4)
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You might have issues with some effects as they are slightly different with PPro2 and then PProCS3, open the PPro2 project in AfterEffects 7 or CS3 and then Export to PPro project. It should open then. Make sure you fix up anything that gets lost.
– JOn 🙂
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You sound like you have some skills but your comments are not making too much sense.
In my experience, it makes more sense to be a part of a non-linear editor than in a pre-compositing program like AE.
Keying is a pre-compositing process. Granted you would edit the footage, but then only key what you have edited. You can key in NLEs, like PPro and FCP they aren’t the best so you do the proper Keying in AE or Shake with the edited key footage, and replace the shot/s.
So, for now, my business has had a “no After Effects” policy when it comes to required, longterm campaigns, and for good reason.
If the business can’t be bothered learning or hiring someone with the skills to work in AE properly it shouldn’t be taking these Keying based jobs. 45mins for a keying job is pretty tight. Most Advanced users won’t have too much of an issue with that, but a learner definitely will.
Provided footage is lit correctly and not spilling key colour all over the place (even then) it can be done in PPro by making a clean matte using Chroma Key + Non-Red Key with the matte only option then track matte that layer from a copy of the original and colour correct the original. Again this is Advanced stuff, skills that cost money results that cost time/money.
Keying is a premium product, which should be treated with appropriate respect (ie: skilled staff who can do it) and time.
It’s not your place to keep your boss in business. I had the same guilt trip at my last FT job (I freelance now). My employer would try to give clients a $5000 job at less than half price. It ruins respect for the industry and clients ask for high quality results without paying for it.
I’m tired of hearing about businesses trying to out bid the big guys and ruin proper wages for highly skilled and experienced staff. It’s part of the slow and continuing destruction of the industry. Don’t worry about your boss – worry about your own future as a skilled/creative technician!
– Jon
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Peter I just did some tests and I can see that there seems to be no way to trim a HDV project with the Media Manager. We should hassle the heck out of Adobe.
I have got some kind of solution tho…
If you work in an Offline DV project, which I’ve done for many months now. You can trim that. Import it into a HDV project with all the trims offline and batch capture the trimmed project with the HDV capture override. That works perfectly. It’s a bit more work, but I prefer to work this way, it’s a faster edit in DV and the Timecode matches perfectly when Batching the trim in HDV. I have a SONY Z1P.
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Your question doesn’t really say what you have and what you want. If you have graphics from PPro1.5 and you want to link them when you open in CS3 that’s a not an issue, just link them.
If you want to use the same graphic design, just change the name, make a set of templates and use that to make the multiple versions with a title change. Make sure you open the template, make new based on current, then change the title (text/graphic).
Can you let me know more about what you have and what you need to do with it.
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As a work around try a test with only a couple of clips from the same source tape.
1. Start a new HDV project.
2. Set it up with several clips cut down to a short edit.
3. Start another project and import the 1st one.
4. Ask all the clips to go offline.
5. Run the Media Manager to keep it offline
6. Open trimmed offline project
7. Attempt to batch capture(I’m going to have a crack at it myself 1st chance – let you know how I went).
– Jon 🙂
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make sure the multi-camera enabled nested sequence has that video layer targeted, if there are no targeted tracks or the target is on another track that is blank it won’t show up.
Check my tutorial about Adv. Multicam workflows.
– Jon 🙂 -
Are you certain the clips are not inside any timeline at they’re full length?
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Can you give a list of your export process and settings, codec, etc.
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Premiere Pro CS3 works with WAV format 5.1 surround files. It worn’t import an AC-3 5.1 audio mp3 file, but 5.1 is a feature in PPro. So long as it is in a WAV format. (Audition can make mix and export them.)
– Jon