[Mark Crenshaw]

This is a piece of cake in DVD Studio Pro. I guess Avid just offers the very basics in it’s authoring package…if you can really even call it that.

Peace,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

I forgot to mention, I will be using Nucleo Pro 2 with AE.

Peace,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

I’m a dufuss. I had accidently hit the Maximize button and made the comp window extend across both monitors. I didn’t know it because I have my timeline undocked and full screen on the other monitor.

Sheesh!

Sorry for the bother.

Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

Hi Michael. Thanks for the quick reply.

I’ve double checked all the connections but no change. I switched from our PVW-2800 to our BVW-75 and it’s fine now…may be something in the back of the patch panel in the PVW-2800 connections. At least it’s not the Nitris. Whew!

Peace,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

It saved mine too! Thanks again Michael!

I have all footage captured and we are sitting down to edit this morning…only had to work until 8pm last night…could have easily been midnight.

Thanks again,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

Hi Filip,

I think for this project cropping would be best. It would nice to know how to apply it to scaling too in case they go that route last minute.

Thanks,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

Grinner, Michael,

Thanks so much for the quick responses. I just tried Michael’s suggestion and it works beautifully! Suddenly this project looks managable.

The producer’s intent was to “simplify” the edit process by being able to go to a specific bin with a specific topic and grab the shot they want…not realizing they were trading “searching for a clip within a large bin” for “searching for a clip amoung 58 bins”…otherwise known as the point of deminishing returns.

Thanks agian…

[Mark Crenshaw]

Disk Utilities seems to have fixed the issues.

Peace,
Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

Chis,
Here are a hings to help you out, but I would suggest you spend some time with the AE manual. It will clear up alot of the issues you are having with applying effects, using nulls and even some basics on expressions.

You only need one null. It will control all instances of Glow that have the expression applied. The breakdown is any number of Glow effects, with the expression applied, will be controled by a single slider on the Glow Null.

With the Null selected in the timeline, right click on it and go Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control. The effect will show up in the Effects Controls window. With it selected, hit Enter and rename it “Glow Slider” Naming is important because the expression refers to this name.

If you follow the directions I gave you, and don’t assume anything else, you should be fine. If there is something in the directions you don’t understand, I would encourage you to find the answer in the manual. It will be well worth the time so you understand the process and can then apply it to later projects.

Good luck!

Mark

[Mark Crenshaw]

Use this as I described in this post. It will give you what you want and allow you to control the global settings for all layers. This is the quickest way I am aware of to accomplish what you want.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/950288

Follow it step by step and you’ll get it. Set it up on a practice comp and then when you have it working, copy and paste the Glow Null layer to your main project and the Glow effect to the layers you want it on.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

Peace,
Mark