Joshua Smith
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COW Coins
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Are you trying to alter the video to look like the photo or are you trying to alter the photo to fit the look of your production? I know that between Color Corrector or third party plugins like Magic Bullet and Magic Looks you could sorta produce the same color and contrast as in the photo. For the more cartoon look you try some free plugins from NewBlueFX.
Check this plugin out: https://www.newbluefx.com/cartoonr/
Hope this helps!
Joshua
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Ok I went through the process of upgrading to 10.0d (which seems to play the raw files from the T2i smoother than 10.0a). I attempted to render the file again and after about 6 hours it got to about 37% before giving me the same error.
I discovered late last night I actually did NOT do this project with Mpeg Streamclip. (I saw online that Pro 10 was able to preview the files in realtime.) Therefore, my project file includes the original files from the camera and not intermediate files. Any help as to why my project is not rendering?
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I wonder if it has anything to do with how I’m rendering the file. I have 60fps/720p video and I was trying to render to mp4 at 30fps. I am trying out rendering to .mov as I saw you advise someone to render in the same format as the original file to get the highest quality. I will let you know if this works. Hoping for the best! -
…I might have hit a multi-threading bug with the H.264 codec. I glanced online and saw this in another forum. I will try to change my threads to 1, unless someone advises otherwise.
Josh
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I’m no professional by any means but I’m pretty sure others will advise you to utilize a workflow that works best with the equipment you have. If you have a slower processor (I believe having a duo-core or other equivalent is adequate for video editing) and/or less ram it would be in your interest to transcode to an intermediate file using Mpeg Streamclip (Avid DNxHD codec in a .mov container) or using Cineform Neoscene. Each program has it’s advantages but Mpeg Streamclip is free and Cineform will run you at least $100. I hear others saying that the .mov container is still taxing for a PC and is better suited for Macs. I’ve also seen others claim that Prism video converter with the Matrox codec works better for Sony Vegas Pro and Windows OS. (Please note that these intermediate files from either option will create files between 2-4x larger than the original H.264 files!)
Your best bet is to go ahead and try to edit a short clip taken with your DSLR (assuming you have purchased it) and see how well your computer plays it in the preview window and the corresponding render time needed for length of clip (ie. 15 mins need to render for approx. 1 min of an edited clip). Some computers have the specs that handle the raw H.264 clips from Canon DSLR quite well, making intermediate files unnecessary. Either way, I advise that if you do use intermediate files to back up the ORIGINAL H.264 clips as you can always re-encode to intermediate files and it is more convenient to backup the original, smaller files.
Hope some of my rambling helped!
Josh
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I had to do the same as “Danny Hays” did. I purchased a Firewire Express card to dump the video from my old Sony handycam to my HDD because my laptop came with an ExpressCard slot. I do not know if laptops today have the ExpressCard but they seemed to be very popular on most models when I purchased my ACER Inspire (about 2 years ago).
The great thing is it won’t cost you much to purchase a Firewire ExpressCard as they run pretty cheap online. For instance:
This Firewire ExpressCard is about $11.
Hope you find a PC/laptop that suits your needs!
Josh
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Ok I went through the process of upgrading to 10.0d (which seems to play the raw files from the T2i smoother than 10.0a). I attempted to render the file again and after about 6 hours it got to about 37% before giving me the same error.
I discovered late last night I actually did NOT do this project with Mpeg Streamclip. (I saw online that Pro 10 was able to preview the files in realtime.) Therefore, my project file includes the original files from the camera and not intermediate files. Any help as to why my project is not rendering?
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I’m using 10.0a right now. (I also failed to mention that I’m using intermediate files for my editing. I used the “infamous” Mpeg Streamclip to render my Canon T2i files to DNxHD .mov files.)
Do you think that the media files have a play in it? I wanted to experiment with the original H.264 raw clips but is it safe to just relocate the intermediate files and then switch them with the raw files? If it is possible, I will render it that way and update you.