[Lex Park]

How did you make the fuse in AE? A new Layer and the brush tool?(again, AE newbie here)
I did the sparks in AE and Particular, rendered out to uncompressed avi @ millions of colors+, and the alpha came out perfect.
I put that with a very simple line I did using a title in Premiere. With a little motion tracking, I was able to have the fuse “burn away” from left to right, as the sparks moved along.

One bit of trouble I’m having now is getting the darn thing rendered out without losing the pristine quality of the spark that the orignal alpha source avi (from AE) has. I just used a little test vid clip to go in the background, so that I could see the burning fuse over top, but no matter what/how I render it, the quality of the spark detail suffers when compared to the original.

Any suggestions?

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! That’s what did the trick! I had to re-render the sparks avi from AE using these same settings – uncomp avi w/ mmillions+, then bring it into Premiere, match it up with the fuse, render them to uncomp avi w? millions+, and BINGO!

Now I can move on…

Thanks again! The Cow rocks so hard!

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

Thanks for the head’s up on the poor quality in the preview area. Weird enough, the quality in the Source monitor is as great as the source file, but not in the Program preview window. My machine has dual-core with 3GB of RAM, 2 hard drives, so it’s not slow…
Now worries though, after taking the advice to render with tscc settings, it is working out perfectly.

Now, if I can only pinpoint what is making Premiere crash nearly every time I use it, then I’d be all set… hmmmm…

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

Perfect! When using the TSCC compression in Premiere, and matching the rate settings of the source, I’m able to render this out to a video that is of the same crisp and clean quality. I’m so stoked!
Thanks for the insight. The Cow rocks so hard!

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

In your opinion, what would be the ideal codec/format combo to use, considering this is HD footage?

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

checking the audio event properties for his track… it’s not showing me the tempo (bpm) used. It does show me the time stretch/ pitch shift, along with original length and new length, etc, but no bpm info.

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

Running 5.0a currently. I know, I should upgrade, but I’m moving over to Premeire and Audition very soon.

Thanks for the info, but I’m not sure that altering the tempo of the .acd file when imported would be good in this case, as I’m trying to match his ACID project’s tempo , not the other way around. So, it appears my best bet is to determine the tempo he used in his production, and match it in Vegas.

Thanks again for your attention to my quandary!

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

I’m using Vegas 5

Hmmm… I don’t have the option to import audio at project tempo in Options>Prefs>Audio.

I have found this useful bit of info since searching myself:
“When you add an ACID loop to the timeline, it is automatically stretched to match the project tempo as specified on the Ruler tab of the Project Properties dialog.”

So it looks like I need to find out from my friend what tempo he used, then reset that in the project properties.

Thanks for the help!

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

The sample rate of both, in this case, is this same… 44.1 KHz.

– The Foonshoe

[Lex Park]

They are .wav files created in ACID Pro 5.

– The Foonshoe