Juan Manuel
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If I understood your issue correctly, you need to stretch the layer containing the image as well
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Vishesh: roughly speaking, fields are half a frame, containing only either even or odd lines. So for PAL, it means you have, if interlaced, 25 frames per second, which means 50 fields per second – two fields make a complete frame. That, in an interlaced setting. Progressive video doesn’t subdivide frames into fields.
They are asking you progressive material, so that would be, in your case, 25 frames per second, no fields, with a resolution of 1920×1080 -
That’s what I thought. The thing is, trying to use time reverse in such a layer crashes AE
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As in, instead of a layer ‘exploding’ (if the particle speed goes from 0 to something), getting a layer to ‘implode’
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Done. I’ve rendered the first sequence again before trashing it, though, and it came out fine this time.
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There are software to recover data from failed disks if you can’t get them to work. If, by some chance, your disk is in NTFS, getdataback from runtime software works very well and they also have a raid reconstruction application if your drive is a raid.
However, I assume its HFS, as you use Macs. A google search will point to you similar software. I’ve fortunately never needed them, so I can’t point you for good Mac software for this. -
But there is no thunderbolt for Mac Pros nor a way to add it with an expansion card. In PCs, thunderbolt is already available for new motherboards and pci-e expansion boards to add it to existing boards should be available soon, if they aren’t already.
OTOH, USB 3.0 can also provide high speed storage. PCs can provide their users with a degree of flexibility Macs typically don’t provide. -
I haven’t used Vegas in a long time. Vegas can export the timeline as an aaf, which After Effects *should* be able to import. I’d assume the procedure will go with some trouble and, of course, nearly nothing besides cuts and fades you do in Vegas will be imported into After Effects. But, if it works as it should, you won’t need to render the portions to stabilize from Vegas nor to import the original, uncut, files into After Effects.
Once you stabilize in After Effects, render each as described and re-import them in Vegas, replacing the original clips. That way, you don’t need to render stuff you won’t be using and you’ll keep your cuts in AE.
Or, if you’re comfortable with Adobe Premiere, you can edit there. The Warp Stabilizer of After Effects it’s also available in Premiere CS6, so you can cut and stabilize in the same aplication
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AFAIK the wear issue is due writing, not reading and manufacturers claim their drives will last about 10 years anyway.
I don’t see any issue in storing media in an SSD. Once you capture/copy the material, you don’t rewrite it. It might apply to render files, though, but IMHO, it’s not much of an issue, or so most manufacturers say.
The issue I think is the high cost per gigabyte of ssds against a raid of conventional hard drives. -
Michael Cinquin is your friend
https://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools/subtitles/srt_to_fcp
That site has a java script which allows you to import srt files into a final cut xml file, so the translators will only need to send you a text file. The downside is, if you want to change the font, you’ll need to do it manually for each subtitle and you’ll need to convert the xml file you get from the script into xml version 4 to keep the line breaks.