Mark Clarkson
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I have successfully opened AVCHD files from my Canon DVR with no problems in PP CS4. Adobe’s web site implies that it oughta work for you:
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/supportedformats.html
Have you tried importing the files via the Media Browser? (Window | Media Browser)
mark clarkson – http://www.markclarkson.com
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Thanks, everyone. I appreciate all the pointers. Using an animation preset sounds like the best way to go, perhaps combined with replacing the faces.
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Darby (and everyone),
Thanks for your input and advice. I’ve actually been using AE *and* Flash for many years, although my use of AE has been pretty casual. AE and Flash actually remind me a lot of each other, in terms of how projects are built up, how they are displayed and worked with, the use of layers, etc. etc. And, goodness knows, there are things in AE that I really miss when I’m working in Flash.
But the thing that drives me the most nuts in AE is the subject of this thread. As I said, I kept thinking I must be missing something simple (it’s certainly happened before) and that’s why I was the only person on Earth who found adding and subtracting chunks of time to a composition to be a major PITA. It was my hope that, in response to my thread, someone would say, “Geez, you just put the playhead at X and hit Cmd+Shift+somekey. N00b!”
That appears to not be the case, so I will keep manually dragging layers, and start and end points, and keyframes around. I do maintain that this is one place where Flash has it all over AE.
Thanks again.mark clarkson – http://www.markclarkson.com
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It doesn’t sound like I’m really “missing” anything; it sounds like there’s no straightforward way to do this. I don’t want to sound argumentative – that’s not my intention – and I’m not interesting in attacking or defending the way AE does things. I just want to make sure I’m not missing out on something.
It does seem like there’s a chunk of functionality missing here, though. It seems like other people would be constantly saying,
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Dave,
Thanks – I love shortcuts and am always willing to learn more (though I do know that one), but I don’t think that helps me in my example case. Well – maybe a little.I may have been unclear; the idea was not to simply extend the first bitmap layer by one second, but to push *everything* back one second, so that the first bitmap runs one second longer, but the comp is extended by one second, so the second bitmap doesn’t lose any time.
And the keyframes in the changing text layer still need to be pushed right one second or, at least, some of them do, to match the new timing.
This is something I have to do all the time, and it’s killing me.
mark clarkson – http://www.markclarkson.com