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Marcus Taylor
January 31, 2017 at 2:31 am in reply to: Creating opacity matte – pen tool problems

I’ve been advised by a very learned PP person that the Opacity Mask is meant to be a basic mask for blurs etc and not sophisticated mattes. For complicated work (which I need from time to time), it would appear that AE is the best option. I used it in conjunction with PP and found it much more successful.

A shame that I need two programs to achieve this compared to say the Avid MC, but I do have an option – and one that gives me better controls.
Marcus Taylor
January 30, 2017 at 6:31 pm in reply to: Creating opacity matte – pen tool problems

Thanks for the suggestion about going ‘Fullscreen’. That helped. But I had to be extra careful not to touch my work otherwise it would rotate or move.

Also – I want to add more than one mask from my image, or indeed, include another area within that mask. When I start making another Mask, it creates another Mask element in the Effects editor but then the first Mask doesn’t work.

Why can’t we see all our Masks together at one time?

Thoughts?

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Marcus Taylor
September 8, 2008 at 4:24 am in reply to: Printing HDV to DV Tape as 4×3

Hi,
I would export a QT file in DV NTSC, making sure that when you choose the settings etc, to crop to 4:3. This way, the new file will be the correct ratio as well as format. Then I would reimport the QT clip and cut it into a DV sequence and then edit to tape from there.
best of luck
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Marcus Taylor
August 16, 2008 at 7:45 pm in reply to: Adding a blur to disguise a phone number

Yes I did this.

In the end it did work but I analyzed the blurred masked group rather than the original shot. Somehow everything kinda worked after that.

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Marcus Taylor
August 16, 2008 at 6:26 pm in reply to: SD-HD Title Uprez

Hi,

I’ve just done this but, while I had a few hiccups a long the way, adding subtitles to an HD version is simple.

My post house created the HD Uprezz in the form of one long movie QT file. I imported that file into my new HD project (Apple Pro res format) and then pasted the new QT over the old edits (another video track) and let the old SD subtitles sit on top as before.

I have to render again but still, quite straight forward.

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Marcus Taylor
August 14, 2008 at 2:08 am in reply to: Low res-artifacts-with text on Apple Pro Res

An additional piece of information.

So I did a test and added a lower third to a shot. I added 3D text on top of it.

Sure enough, unrendered – the text looked sharp.

Rendered it looked a little blocky.

Then I outputted a QT. This looked great. The text was sharp and clear. No weird artifacts.

So the question is? Is interlace the REAL issue?? i.e really affecting how titles look on my LCD monitor? I’ve never noticed it before on the DV version of these titles.

Has anyone used Apple Pro Res recently? Do they get sharp clear text titles over picture??

Very odd.

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