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I haven’t used it myself, but I have a protigé who uses it. He regularly asks me how to do various tasks involving anything from scaling and positioning to opacity changes to motion tracking to masking effects to audio sweetening. I usually tell him how I do things in Premiere and tell him I assume LW has similar features, but it often does not. It seems like a lot of basic features are missing. So I am not impressed from what I hear
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I certainly wouldn’t upgrade until your project is finished. You never know what might be slightly changed in the new version that will have a huge effect on your final composite.
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Yeah technically 100% is as far as you should go, but as stated before you can sometimes cheat just a few percent. It’s highly circumstantial. If your focus is at all soft you will notice it pretty quick when you go above 100%
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Agree with previous two comments. If your new colleagues’/your workflow is entirely Adobe, then you have nothing to worry about working cross-platform. I haven’t worked heavily in cross-platform since CS6, but then it was completely seamless and I’m sure it’s the same way with CC. PC’s are more upgradeable, and the ones you have are currently quite powerful, so it seems to me there’s no reason to switch.
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Previously when masks gave me issues on render it was because of GPU acceleration. Try turning it off and see how that works
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I am having the same exact problem! It is driving me absolutely nuts. At first I thought it had something to do with my apple mouse being too sensitive to left/right scrolling, until I finally discovered Premiere was doing this any time my mouse moved over. It is seriously driving me crazy. I’m pretty sure it’s an OS issue as I never experienced this on OSX 10.8.5. I wish we could roll back on the new Mac Pros. I will try James’ advice and let you know if it works.
Premiere Pro 8.2.0 (65) Build
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
OSX 10.10.3 (14D136)
32 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC SSD
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Yes, DSLR footage is terrible to key. You can shoot to an external recorder but if Nikons are like Canons (I think they are in this case), then the signal that goes to an external recorder will still be the highly compressed 8-bit h.264. So even the the recorder may be recording ProRes, the footage will still be lacking the proper data for a good, easy key. It would be like taking a bad rip from a 240p youtube video, putting it in ProTools, and exporting as a high quality .aif. The computer will say it’s aif, the size may be huge, but it’ll still sound terrible.
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Bill basically nailed it. Canon cameras are great for getting your feet wet in video at a really affordable price. However as your skills and eye for quality increase, it might be wise to get a better camera as Canon DSLR’s are really limited in a number of ways. The weird effect on the roof is called aliasing, it is common in Canon DSLRs, it’s hard to predict when it will and will not occur, and there is not much you can do about it. You can get an anti-aliasing filter but it softens the video so I do not recommend it.
A few tips:
– Don’t shoot flat. Many people like doing so on canons (including myself for a while), however it is not practical. Without getting too technical, Canons shoot a heavily compressed codec so when you go to color correct later (which is the purpose of shooting flat) you can’t do much before you see strange noise patterns and other artifacts. It is best to get as close to the look you want in camera as possible and keep the color correction to a minimum.
– Keep your ISOs at multiples of 160. Because of the way Canons work, their “natural” ISOs are 160, 320, etc. AVOID multiples of 125 as they produce the most noise. (If you run a test you will see that ISO 125 actually gives you more noise than 160)
– If you don’t have the money for a better camera, pick up some good lenses. Quality glass is as important (if not more) than a good camera. Kit lenses generally produce a dull, soft, image. Some good/relatively cheap lenses I recommend:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/canon-ef-50mm-f-1-8-ii-standard-lens-black/2473035.p?id=1218329521421&skuId=2473035&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=2473035&extensionType=pla_multichannel:g&s_kwcid=PTC!pla!!!115759478199!g!!54377925759&kpid=2473035&k_clickid=23401463-f903-48ca-b0bc-17131374a665&kpid=2473035&lsft=ref:212,loc:1&ksid=23401463-f903-48ca-b0bc-17131374a665&ksprof_id=14&ksaffcode=pg9593&ksdevice=c
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/918894-REG/sigma_30mm_f_1_4_dc_hsm.html
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Not from Singapore but regarding A7s vs 5DIII, I would definitely go with the A7s. More dynamic range, much better codec, sharper, easier to grade. Basically the A7s is designed to shoot video, whereas the video was basically just an afterthought on the original 5D, and since then it has hardly improved at all.
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The quality difference between All-l and IPB is virtually none. I would definitely keep it with IPB if you’re system is having issues handling the higher bitrate. What lens are you using? DSLR’s generally are not that sharp, and that includes Canons. Increasing sharpness will help, as well as quality glass, other than that you will not see much improvement over what you already have.