Joseph W. bourke
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Christina –
Have you checked out:
https://www.virtualset.com/Tricaster-Studio.htm
I would assume you have, since you have a Tricaster? Here’s another one which might help:
https://www.virtualsetbackgrounds.com/
The one immediately above seems to have some nice looking AE motion BGDs. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Steve –
You’ll find a wide array of good music at Pond5.com. They are also a terrific source for affordable stock video, so filter your views so you only see music, or it will drive you crazy. I just bought a very nice classical string quartet cut by Telemann for 45 bucks!
Stock20 is another good source, and everything there is 20 bucks. The choices aren’t as broad, and some of the cuts are lame, but, that said, I’ve used several cuts by them. They have some very nice acoustic guitar pieces.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Devin –
If it plays in VLC, there’s a streaming/exporting feature that just may save your bacon. Go to the File>Streaming/Exporting Wizard. I hope this helps.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I believe you just play the file in the thumbnail view, and then when you get to the frame you want, stop. Right click the thumbnail, and choose “Set Poster Frame”.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Here are the formats acceptible for iPhone in general:
Video Format: MP4, MOV, M4V
Video Size: up to 640×480
Video Framerate: up to 30fps
Video Bitrate: up to 1.5Mbps for H.264, or 2.5Mbps for MPEG-4
Audio: AAC up to 160Kbps, 48kHzI have been consistently outputting high-quality video for a client’s sales staff’s iPhones at 640 x 480, 30fps, H.264 at around 1Mbps. It’s very viewable, no jerkiness, audio sounds great (audio encoding at 128Kbps – mono or stereo, depending on whether there’s a music bed or not), and all the graphics are readable. Hope this helps.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Joshua –
If you know approximately (within a few days) when you worked on the project open last, you could do an advanced search, and find only .prproj files which were last modified within that range of dates. Of course you’d have to open all of them to check the timelines, but if you can at least narrow it down to a small number of projects, the search won’t be too time consuming. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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i i Marvin –
But I’ve heard rumors that the iRock won’t import previous projects from the iPebble, running on the Igneous OS. Is that true?
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Of course I remember it, Marvin. I bought one! But of course now you’ll have to have a shiny iDock for your iRock, and a silicon iSkin to protect it from bumps, and an upgrade if you want a higher resolution iRock. The iRock Cinema….
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Once again – a tool – albeit a partially built tool – arrives in the market place, and it’s cheap enough that everyone thinks they can be an editor. As I’ve always said – it should say right on the box: “talent not included”.
The desktop publishing industry did the same crash and burn with the advent of the first Macs and 36 different typefaces. Now anyone in the office with a computer with MS Publish and fifteen minutes of spare time is the newsletter designer.
It seems, that Apple is quite successfully in the business of selling whatever sells, and has proven it in the market. Good product…bad product…is it selling? OK. At this point in time, they could put a lightup Apple logo on a turd and sell millions of them.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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The difference (in my opinion) between software that puts 3D in the AE interface without actually interacting with it (in terms of reflection, refraction, lighting, etc.) is how “real” do you want it to look?
I use 3D Studio Max, and, while I’m not suggesting you necessarily adopt this pup, it can do lighting, motion, z-depth control, clipping, and camera matching (through use of scripting, and output as RLA or RPF files) that few other 3D packages offer. That said, the learning curve is lifelong! I’ve been using it almost 10 years, and I learn something new, or forget something I should have remembered, every day.
There’s a new kid on the block coming soon from VideoCopilot that promises to make Zaxwerks and other “3D” plugins obsolete! Here’s the link to what’s coming (and I don’t have any affiliation with VideoCopilot other than that I buy their plugins, and use their tutorials – their Optical Flares plugin blows Knoll away!). It’s called Element 3D:
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2011/07/info-about-element-3d/
If you’re a good student of lighting, and you match your lighting and shadows from the 3D app with your lighting in your video, you’re on the right road, no matter what 3D ancillary package you choose.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com