Kenneth Hahn
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My thoughts also! Have a wedding montage to do, and would love to do something new and fun.
It’s Not Just A Video,
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I have mine hosted through Verio.com. They have numerous plans and you can register your domain through them also. I am currently using the “Hosting 3000” plan which gives me 15gigs of space on their server, and it seems to be a very fast server when I upload/download to update my page. This plan runs 29.95/month. I know they have biz plans to for the other things you are talking about like bill pay.
One of my best friends you used to work for them (Verio) designing web pages. He is now free-lance. You can reach him at scott@smoss.net. Not sure what he charges for pages. He did my initial pages and design, but I have chenged them some since then.Hope that helps you out some.
Ken
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I had that problem in the past also. I got around this by just creating seperate Sequences within the original(Master) project that are using the same footage.
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You say you are going to use Encore to output, yet the question you posed leads me to think you want a linear sequence. When we output our weddings to DVD, we seperate them into individual chapters, allowing the viewer to pick and choose how they want to view. Each section stands on its own… ceremony, montage, reception…. with highlight sections of the recpetion and ceremony (keeping those to 5 minutes or so each)
So… unless I totally misunderstood your direction……
Ken
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I have an Epson R300. I love it. Have probably printed well over 500 CD’s/DVD’s on it in the 2 years I have had it. It can be a bit frustrating printing large batches (largest single batch so far was 100), but once you get into a rhythm, it isn’t too bad. Reasonably economical on the ink also.
Ken
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I didn’t know if this would work, so went to their site and grabbed a logo.
Put it over some video and applied color key, then picked up the White. I set the tolerance to 255 (this was just a black and white logo, maybe that won’t work with a color one?) I left the edge thin at 0 and set the edge feather to 1.5. It gave it a slightly opague/blurred outline.
Just a thought.
Ken
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I recently chamged from a P4 3.0Gig to an Athlon 3500 64 bit. I did a render test before switching on the P4, and then rendered the same piece with the new chip. Had 2 gigs of Ram in both. The Athlon actually rendered about 1 minute slower. But programs (especially Premiere and Photoshop) load much faster on the Athlon. All in all I am pretty happy with it.
Ken
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How are you planning to distribute this to them? On a DVD?
I see a couple of possibilities. First would be a semi-traditional montage of the prep scenes transitioning into the highlights of the wedding itself. I do this often, a short hightlight of the day that the couple will watch often, and then the complete ceremony as another chapter on the DVD.The other possiblity that comes to my mond.. maybe a dream or flashback type…. start with them walking down the aisle at the end of the ceremony, probably in slow motion…. and then use the wedding prep segments. Cut back and forth between them leaving, and the portions of the day that got them to that point.
Just my thoughts.
Ken
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I see that now, and will try it on the next multi-cam I do. Sure wish I had heard/thought about this sooner!
Thanks Steve
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[Steven L. Gotz] “The trick I use is this. I take the top track and figure out which shots are the very best, and I set the opacity to zero for everything else. I then do the same for the second track. Then the third.”
So if I understand you correctly, you make cuts, but don’t delete the clip, just set its opacity to 0%?
I have been locking all the other tracks, then cutting the bad spots out of the top track, then lock it down and cut the second track, leaving the “master” track intact. Only problem I have had once or twice is some clip slippage, causing me to loose one or two frames of Sync, and the time to straighten it all back out again.
The reason I lock everything is that I have a shuttle-pro, with one key set to “Razor All”, really speeds things up in the rough edit.Ken