Joseph W. bourke
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Alex –
I just installed the CC version of Bridge on my desktop machine (as opposed to my workstation, which I use for graphics work), and, while I’m not able to play back video files within the Bridge interface, by double clicking the video file, it plays back fine within whatever player you’ve set on your system to play back video files. So it must might work for your account reps…
Joe Bourke
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If the denoiser dynamic link library is the culprit, then you might want to take the denoiser.dll file, and change it temporarily to denoiser.bak. Then restart Premiere Pro and see if the problem is gone.
It seems strange that a .dll would suddenly start having a problem, short of having been trashed somehow. Did your system take any electrical hits, or did it somehow crash during a boot up? This might have caused problems with the .dll file. If the problem goes away, you may want to reinstall PPro, unless you never use the denoiser plugin. You may also want to bring this up with Adobe tech support.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I think that math is going to be your only friend on this one. If you’re lucky, all of your images in the AE Comp are scaled the same -if not, it will take longer. Just scale your Photoshop images up to what they need to be, and figure out the percentage you had to scale them up.
Alt-Drag the images in AE from the Project bin to the Comp, replacing each smaller image with the larger, and use the scale percentage above to change them to the original scale. Does that make sense? So, if you had to scale your images up by 20 percent in Photoshop, when you bring them in to AE, you scale them down by 20 percent.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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You may end up with great footage, a guy in a sweaty suit full of bullet holes, an arrest, and a lawsuit…good luck with it.
Joe Bourke
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To create a seamless loop from a clip which is not able to loop, you cut it in the middle, swap the front of the clip to the end, and the end of the clip to the front, overlapping the two pieces in the middle (usually by 10 or 15 frames). Then add a dissolve in the middle, and the finished piece will loop seamlessly. They call it a Dissolve Loop, for obvious reasons.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Greg is right – the first client meeting (and it could be done via phone or email, unless the meet and greet has not been done yet) should revolve around the big picture: what is the purpose of the video? What do you want the viewer to walk away with, or do? Will the video be a fixed length, or is it content based, in which case it could be any length, based on the story which must be told? Do you envision this as all graphics, graphics and video, stock video? Will there be talent and location shooting – if so, how many locations? And on and on…
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Paul –
I worked on a Dubner for several years before we made the transition to Photoshop and Type Deko (which was really just the Dubner ported to the PC without the 3D module – who needs Phong shading anyway?). I loved having the K Language in Dubner – I could write “monkey proof” templates for our broadcast station’s weather screens and other graphics which needed tight control over the look, and the CG ops just had to type in the text and they were done. No mistakes, no “but I like a different typeface” stuff. It worked like a charm. Building the air sequence was a bit of a pain, but it was mighty powerful for the mid-nineties!
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I see two ways of going about it, and both are done for the same reason – to cover the hours spent managing these phases of the project, which you might not be involved in directly, but you do have to spend hours managing, tracking, and organizing.
Some people mark up talent costs (anywhere from 10 to 25 percent) and any post which is hired out. I don’t know about insurance. Personally, I track my time on every project I work on, so I have a very good sense of how many hours it takes me to research, hire, and manage the talent phase of the project, and any others which require my time. There is really no phase of any project that I don’t spend at least a few hours on. The trick is to cover your time, but don’t blow the budget out of being competitive. There are even times when it’s necessary to put a 15 to 25 percent contingency fee on projects, especially when you’re working with a client who has proven to be a micro-manager of every approval, and makes client corrections right down to the delivery phase.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Paul –
You mean a Quantel Paintbox? That’s the box I started out doing digital graphics on. I have two of the storage platters from when we were throwing them away – a honking 90MB each!
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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If Change to Color doesn’t work for you (it should), I’d give Colorista’s Secondary Color Correction a try. You could probably also use the Three Way color corrector as well. Here’s a short tutorial by Andrew Devis:
https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Color-Correction-4_Secondary-Colour-Correction/1
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com