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^Walter’s suggestion is best. Otherwise if it is one long clip, you could stabilize in AE, render it out and then in Premiere right click the original clip, click “Replace footage,” and choose the stabilized footage. This will retain all your cuts in the timeline.
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Well first of all PC/Mac fanboyism runs deep. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that every person even on the COW is completely unbiased. I have nearly the same exact iMac you do, and I can tell you that it performs pretty well indeed. Yes, it can get a bit slower if you are using a lot of 3D effects and optical flares, but that is to be expected.
As far as PC/Mac goes, I have used both fairly extensively. I can definitely say that while I hate the cult that surrounds Apple, I find OSX to be a smoother, more intuitive and generally less glitchy OS than Windows. (For the sake of specifics, I have used XP and 7 quite a bit, I have not once touched 8). Having said that, Windows can be a fine operating system if you take care of it. It’s important to only install trusted software and not bloatware from random websites that will install all kinds of other nonsense on your machine. If you keep it clean, it should work great. There will be crashes and problems, but that happens on OSX as well. No OS is perfect, despite what the fanboys will tell you. It seems that many production houses are switching from Mac Pros to HP workstations, and while many people were nervous about switching from Mac to PC they have done it with little to no hiccup.
As far as what machine to go with, I have built a couple computers but I am not an expert on current ratings of which processor is faster, et cetera. It seems to me that the compact PC you list is about equal in power to the laptop, and with much less portability.
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[Gabriel Moore] “I am looking more into learning about how to utilize a 360 view of some sort rather then a solid 2d background.”
By this do you mean you want elements of your virtual set to be in front of your subject(s)? If your virtual set is created in Cinema4D, you can use After Effect’s camera tracker to create a virtual camera within AE that should match the footage movement pretty closely. Then by using Cineware you can import the C4D scene into AE, and place your subject where you would like in the scene. Then the scene will move with the virtual camera and therefore (ideally) your subject
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Great for both of them. Upstanding gentlemen indeed
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Looks like a lot of time animating shape layers
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“Signed into Creative Cloud Sync Settings
Win: Users\[user name]\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[version]\Profile-CreativeCloud-\Win\
Mac: Users/[user name]/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[version]/Profile-CreativeCloud-/Mac/Signed out of Creative Cloud Sync Settings
Win: Users\[user name]\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[version]\Profile-username\Win\
Mac: Users/[user name]/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[version]/Profile-username/Mac/
”This is for CC versions, but I imagine CS5.5 used the same location just make it how you want, copy and past the .kys file to each machine
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LT is plenty sufficient IMO. The raw DSLR footage is a highly compressed 8-bit h.264, so it’s not as if LT is any more compressed than the original footage, nor can you add information just by converting to HQ. So theoretically nothing would be gained by using HQ, and I have observed no difference between h.264 converted to HQ and LT. Having said that I’m sure many people go with HQ and will tell you they see a difference, even though I would bet it’s more of a Placebo effect more than anything. So basically compare for yourself and go with what you want
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Interesting. What’s the format of the video you’ve applied it to? I would try converting to ProRes or some other formats before importing to AE. Also try precomping the video and applying the effect to the comp.
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[Ryan Holmes] “Here in Texas it’s hot outside generally when you shoot. When running ML software here my average temperature ranges from 113-125 Fahrenheit.”
Dang. I never noticed any increase in heat from using ML, but I guess here in the Northeast I am never in very hot conditions so there is no need to pay much attention. I’m sure RAW in those conditions is near impossible.
But with your whole second paragraph, I think you are equating ML to RAW recording. You can use many features of ML and record to the base h.264, and therefore make no increase in workflow whatsover. In fact, this is the only way I have used ML thus far. Even when using it to record to H.264 the screen overlays that ML provide are enormously helpful