Kim Huston
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I’ll wait for your check in the mail! ;D
I’ve used Dynamic Link for single shots. It doesn’t seem to work for entire timelines, which is too bad. But I’ve gotten some graphic work done with Dynamic Link back and forth from PP2 and AE on single shots that was very helpful.
I’ve been told to use Automatic Duck to take an entire timeline into AE smoothly as well, but since there is no plugin for Premiere to After Effects, I have to assume it’s “just supposed to work” because they’re the same company. Smooth workflow, and all that.I don’t think I’ve ever had any problems working with HDV in Premiere, it’s just been a challenge to export on certain occasions. Like I said, I’ve got the youtube quality and the mpeg2 for dvd exports down pretty much, but anything else is just frustrating. But I chalk that up to never being taught ANYTHING about compression or exporting in school and everything I know has been figuring it out myself or working with other people who don’t know jack about it and figuring it out together. Since there are so many variables, if you don’t know what anything means or does to the video, then changing them all around on a guess really isn’t moving forward. It’s like trying to guess a safe combination. Too many options to choose from.
… but back to the subject, I’m waiting for a different export to finish for a different project that I thought I’d try. In the meantime, I tried a Windows Bitmap export, as I didn’t immediately find an option for photo jpeg, thinking it would be a similar result. I just ended up with 10204 seperate bmp files…. So I’m going to see if it’s an option in the media encoder under quicktime.
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Heh. Well if I could afford an HDCam camera, perhaps I’d get it!
It’s the JVC GYHD100. It doesn’t shoot 1080i, but it does do 720p for real. I always export it as square pixels, and it comes in at square pixels.
Actually, the pixelly uncompressed files are just straight out of Premiere before I even put them into After Effects. It just seems to be doing SOMETHING to it when exporting it, despite me specifically telling it not to. Maybe it’s too much to ask of programs or computers to just spit out an avi of uncompressed HD.
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Hm. I’ll see if I can get something good out of that then. I’ve had a world of pain trying to compress things. I can actually compress things to look better at really small, youtube sized files than large ones that I can still work with. In fact, all the settings for “uncompressed” I’ve tried give me a giant file, but still is all pixelly, which really doesn’t make any sense to me.
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I’ve had “uncompressed” files of it that were in the low teens of gigs. I figured the larger the file the slower it’d be though. Will going with lossless really make it faster to load in After Effects or are we just talking about quality at this point?
The problem we were having before with importing a Premiere file into After Effects was that the file was too big and would crash when we tried to load it all, but that was just a copy and paste of the timeline and it was trying to load all the individual clips. I guess the different in the two at similarly large sizes is just that the exported file was only one to load and the timeline was many pieces.
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Well, the file we are working with is an exported movie in mpeg2. HDV is (as far as I know) no longer part of the equation.
We had an unresolved problem moving the edit from premiere to after effects some time ago (and asked about it here) so we’ve made an export of the whole 7 minute movie for coloring in After Effects. Having just the one video layer has been helpful.
Speed’s still an issue though. We can work with any quality or codec we need to, depending on the suggestions from the gang here. What would be faster than mpeg2 in After Effects for 1280x720HD/24p footage?
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Hm. Ok, thanks.
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Thanks for the help. As it turns out, the CC Light Wipe was exactly what I was looking for, but I wouldn’t have looked for it had you not mentioned the other effect!
-Kim
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Thanks. I’ve gotten the plugin, but I’m not entirely sure how to make it look like that. Do I need a range selector or something to make it effect each letter individually?
I’m really bad at After Effects :\
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Is the track muted? 😀
Are you sure you’ve captured audio? Maybe you’re only hearing it when you play it off the camera. It didn’t sound like the case, but to be sure, check that there’s waveform on the track and that the vu meter is showing bars.
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Cool. Thanks.