[Jon Edwards]

I am such a noob to this. I am slowly getting there. Thanks a lot for the help, this guy cleared it up and I am seeing mostly green lines!!

J

[Jon Edwards]

Dude,

A million thanks yous..This one of my main gripes with FCP as I use this feature a lot (on weddings they love the slo mo)

I am slowly getting to grips with it, but still feel I am onlyscatching the surface..

Have a good one..

[Jon Edwards]

Perfect. Many thanks. I have only got version 6, but I assume you can simply write the folders without ‘UDF’ selected and it will be read the same?

Many thanks again. Jon

[Jon Edwards]

Hey Steven,

Many thanks. It is actually going to be played on DVD/Blu-Ray players on TV’s rather than in Computers..

I saw somewhere that Sony actually put 12mins of Blu-Ray stuff on a DVD-R at a conference..

I just wasn’t sure if it was possible for us to do in Premiere/Encore as I would only need to put say 5 minutes on there?

Many thanks. Jon

[Jon Edwards]

I just finished a project using Camtasia 5 and I must say I love it.

When importing the footage into premiere you might need to change the codec as otherwise it comes out all pixelated. I changed it to H.264 and Quicktime and it worked great. I turned down the screen colour depth to 16 bit as well which seemed to help.

Believe me I searched around for hours trying to get it to work, I almost bought a tutorial DVD I was in such a panic..

If there is an area of the screen you need to pay attention to, be sure to zoom in on it as capturing the whole screen did not give the clarity when highlighting particular items, in our case menu buttons..

When you export to DV-AVI, it will seem all juddery but once you have encoded it to your delivery format it will be fine..

Hope this helps. Jon

[Jon Edwards]

Yeh I am, Copy the Plug-In from your plug in directory in the AE folder into your premiere folder.

Dependant on the Look Suite version you have it will work fine. Although I was previously using Premiere 7 and there were no presets, upgraded P2.0 to 6 months ago(havent got the balls for CS3 yet!) and works great, although..

You will need a hell of a graphics card or 3 minutes of rendering will take 30 mins plus previews are non-existant.

There is a list of compatable cards on the magic bullet website. I got a GeFord 6800 Ultra (As I Only have AGP) and it previews ok, but the renders are very quick indeed, compared to previously. You will also need a good Power Supply as all these cards need two more power inputs..

If you have got PCI Express as your graphics option get real time card which they reccomend, and you get realtime previews. They go for the same money on eBay as all are 1-2 years old now and in terms of graphics cards are old timers, but great for me/us!

Hope this helps..

[Jon Edwards]

I use ClipNotes to export the footage and then they can pause the PDF File, write notes, make comments etc.

They then send you back the PDF File. You import it into your timeline and all their notes are markers ont he timeline at exactly the moment they want it.

Very handy stuff.

Give it a try!

[Jon Edwards]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the advice. Purchased the program, it has halved my workflow. Now I can capture and index a tape in one, and then create clips for the areas I need, even merge two tape footage into one. Perfect, and it reatins the timecode, exactly what I need. Thanks a million. Jon

[Jon Edwards]

Strange never had a problem before! Do you know if my Look Suite 2 will work with CS3 OK, i.e. just transfer over the plug-in folder?

[Jon Edwards]

Ah cool. How do you mean Ad Hoc? I try to use one tape for the ceremony and use other tapes for the before and after but isn’t always pratical!