[Justin Craw]

It’s not crazy tough. This tutorial might be able to show you the correct process.

https://lesterbanks.com/2013/01/creating-a-light-leaks-effect-in-after-effects/

Cheers,

[Justin Craw]

Search for a tutorial on creating light leaks.

Cheers

[Justin Craw]

Hey Nathan,

I just found a work around as far as chapter markers translating between the two suites. It’s not the quickest of work arounds, but if you have placed 40 chapter markers, the last thing you want to do is have to use DVDSP’s archaic marker system. I was determined that it was possible to take some headache out of having to go through and copy and paste every timecode while also trying to manage the names of each marker.

So here it is,

After you have created your sequence with markers in Premiere. Go ahead and export your .mp2 with the audio set up for Dolby Digital. The Dolby Digital setting will allow you to go to DVDSP because it will create an .ac3 audio file.

After that is finished go back into premiere and choose File>Export>Final Cut Pro XML. Choose your destination and let it do it’s thing.

At this point you should open Final Cut Pro and select File>Import>XML. Locate the XML file you exported from Premiere. At this point you will be confronted by a menu. I just went ahead and kept everything checked. The most important of course being “include markers” Press Ok. If you receive an error message just click through it. Remember, we are really just in Final Cut to get the marker info.

Once in FCP, you should see the timeline from premiere in the browser window. Open that timeline and hopefully at this point you should have your markers from premiere.

If you take a look at the markers in FCP you will notice that they did not carry over from premiere the metadata suggesting that it is a “Chapter Marker”. So pretty much what you have to do is go through on those markers and specify that they are in fact “Chapter Markers”. You can easily do this by using the keystroke Shift+Down Arrow to move quickly to the next markers.

Now that all markers are set to “Chapter Markers” in FCP. Erase all footage underneath the markers and put a simple slug in. This will speed up your render times and you really don’t need the footage because that has already been exported from Premiere. Next choose File>Export>Quicktime movie. Make sure that the chapter markers option is selected, since this will be carrying your markers to DVDSP.

Open up DVDSP. Import first the file that was created in Final Cut. Since it is just black with no audio there is no need to try to crunch it down in compressor. Drop that file on your track or timeline in DVDSP. At this point all the markers should show up on that track. Erase the video and audio track and the markers should stay on the timeline.

Now bring in the video file from Premiere that you originally exported and drop it on the timeline.

That should do it for you. I know that this probably looks like more work than necessary but I promise that once you have the workflow down it speeds up the process considerably.

Cheers