[Mark Landsburger]

You’re scaring me because it sounds like it might be possible! 🙂

So I just fired up OnLocation and hit play on the deck. It is showing the audio but says “Video input lost. Check your camera’s connection and power.”

I’ve never had to use OnLocation. Can you confirm that you did connect the HD1400 through firewire and get it to work though Onlocation?

Any suggestions as to what I might need to tweak to get it to work?

Thanks again.
LB

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks – this is close. I will try this and then post a thread later if I need slight tweaks.

Thanks a bunch.

[Mark Landsburger]

Sort of, and that actually might work too. Let me try and explain it – start with this graphic:

The line = a stick, attached where it meets each box

Scenario #1: if you slid box A to the right, box B would follow accordingly with it. If you slid box A left, box B wouldn’t move with it until you got far enough left and the stick would pivot till it couldn’t an more

Scenario #2: The same as #1, but depending on how fast you slide box A, box B would continue to move via centrifical force (I’m guessing this is harder to replicate, but I could be wrong)

Make sense now?

Thanks everyone for the replys. I appreciate the help.

ML

[Mark Landsburger]

Sounds very cool. I would love to see the outcome. Is it available on the web?

[Mark Landsburger]

First of all, thanks a million for all the responses. I’ll address some of the questions and give more info:

1. Yes, I do need to deliver a .wmv file

2. Not rendering to fields, or I haven’t changed the “interpret – fields” option. Should I be? Are you compressing to an interlaced or progressive file? : Sorry to say I can’t even answer that. How are you handling fields in the encode? If you mean in Sorrenson, I don’t have see an option for that. Even after years of work, this area (fields, progressive, interlaced, etc…) is my weak spot.

3. Tom: Thanks, I did set the Camtasia setting to record 1:1 and not compress, so I think that’s ok.

4. i’m assuming you are rendering your composite from ae/premiere as lossless or uncompressed, then going into the sorrenson software to compress (not compressing to a sorrenson codec from ae/premiere). Correct

i’m not sure the problem is the compression… it looks like somewhere along the way (most likely in sorrenson) the camtasia captures are getting interpreted as interlaced and the software is trying to de-interlace it. the result is kind of like field doubling where you are missing the data from one set of fields and the data from the other set is being used instead…

try to find a setting in sorrenson that will allow you to tell it that the footage is progressive or not to de-interlace it prior to compression.

Very interesting. As of now, I can’t find that option in the compressor I’ve used to interlace. I did find a interlace option in the “generic – web” filter you can apply. Since it an option, I’m guessing it doesn’t do it by default. I could be wrong though.

BUT, I’m wondering if there is something I should be doing prior with interlacing, fields, etc… that’s getting screwed up along the way.

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks guys. That’s a great tip. I’ll try that as my default.

Thanks for the time.

[Mark Landsburger]

The answer my friends, is blowing in the wind:

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_1/index.htm

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_2/index.htm

Key phrases from the tutorials:

“Notice that the problem isn’t the keyframe you’ve created, but the one before it” (important once you watch and start altering the “interpolation” of the keyframes and such…

After all these damn years! 🙂

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks Steven. I love it when something I overlooked is so simple (but I hate it because I feel stupid).

So there is no way to take a 720×540 sq pixel file and not loose any of the width in Premiere (even if I have black space above and below)? I’ve fooled around with the intrepret footage settings, but can’t seem to figure out what would work.

Thanks again.

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks Chris for the very detailed info. I appreciate your time. I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do with this. So much possible, but boy so much more to learn now…

[Mark Landsburger]

I do have C4D. Maybe I should try that. Much easier to see what the points are and clean them up it sounds like?