[Luis Cosme]

Thank you!
I couldn’t remember what it was to save my life and it was messing up my workflow something serious! 🙂

[Luis Cosme]

put up a screen shot

[Luis Cosme]

@Jason Myres,

What you read and found out was awesome information from what I can tell, but I have to disagree on one part of what you wrote.

After you transcode what the canon recorded at 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 you are still working with the original compressed footage I agree on that part but I don’t agree on the part where you say “it does not improve the situation” Because when you transcode you brake down the pixels into smaller sections and I think you will get a cleaner key (less staircasing) than if you were just keying the straight 4:2:0

Now is it worth transcoding to key it?
Maybe loosing quality while transcoding is not worth it and then ending up with the same results.

What would make sense is if the footage can be transcoded to 4:4:4 without loosing any quality at all from the original compressed and then key that. Then that would yield the best results in my opinion.

I don’t transcode my 60D footage because I edit in Premiere CS5 but I haven’t shot green screen with it yet and I’m planning to, that’s how I ended up in this topic.

As of right now I’m still using my HVX for green screen.

But this is an interesting subject!
We need to put all this to a test 🙂

[Luis Cosme]

ok I just read the part about adding the color correction to the pool. Let me try to figure that out and do that to see how that works out.
thanks

[Luis Cosme]

Same scenario here and I need help.

I had video track 1 and track 2.
I know I needed to color correct track 2 from the second camera but I figured I would go back after doing the multicamera edit (like I do in Premiere) and apply the color correction to the entire track 2.

Well…., Track 2 seems to be gone for ever! 🙂

Instead of adding the plug-in to each and every clip. Is there a better way to do it?

This is a 45 minute video and has a countless number of cuts.

Thanks in advance for your help.
-Luis-

[Luis Cosme]

WOW!
I figured out what happened. I’m so embarrassed!

Last night when I was editing this at 3:15am, somehow, I don’t know when it happened, it must have been between one of my head-drops!
but that section of the ambient track (track 2) somehow got replaced with the information from track 3!

So track 2 and 3 were now the same, but of course track 2 without the fade information kept playing the music, as it should.

So now I have to find my original ambient sound and put it back in track 2. And take out the duplicate song which was causing this whole thing and everything will be fine.

I think I need a break now. I’m getting burnt out!

thanks for all your help!

[Luis Cosme]

if I solo it, the same thing happens. The fade does not work and it keeps playing music as if the whole file was there.

but if I mute the other 2 audio tracks, then the third track works perfect. It fades out and no more music plays.

But once I un-mute the other 2 tracks, the fade and the slice cut stops working and music continues to play from that track.

I am so puzzled!

its as if the bottom track’s automation is completely ignored and superseded by what ever the top tracks are doing.

[Luis Cosme]

I have another suggestion or just another way that may work for you without having to re-encode.

I have a sony hadndycam and don’t have to do all that.
In Windows, I highlight all the clips that are in the camera when it’s plugged in via usb,
then go to edit \ copy to folder \ and copy it to a folder on my external firewire that is plugged in to my laptop.

Then when I open up vegas and go to the explorer I can drag and drop the files from my external hard drive right to the timeline and they work perfect.

My camera is a DCR-SR42 which records\creates MPEG-2 Files.
And the computer I’m using is a pc with vista 32-bit

regards,
Lou

Singer,
Cinematographer/Editor
Music Composer/Producer
Graphic Animation
Panasonic HVX200A w Redrock M2e
Pro-Tools Engineer
Final Cut Pro Editor
Premiere Pro Editor
After Effects Artist
3d Studio Max
Pennsauken, New Jersey / Philadelphia area.
eMail: LRCProductions@gmail.com

[Luis Cosme]

Wow! I can’t believe you got that many responces on this! 🙂

[Luis Cosme]

I just started something similar yesterday and I think I’m cheating but it seems to work.
I put my completed video in Camtasia and selected share my work on the web.
It automatically creates a flash file that I put on my recently started site. The only thing is that the link opens in the same window. That’s what initiated my search on the forum.

Can someone please tell me how to make my link pop up in a separate window?

In the mean time, I’m going to read on the links provided on this thread.

This is my site: http://www.LRCPRODUCTIONS.us

Thanks!

~Luis~