[Mark Weaver]

Another method if you have AE is to use the
Fractal noise plugin. I found that playing with
these setting gave me a more real looking Old Film
look. You can also use the “Wiggle” expression on
the position of the layer to give the film a little
bounce.

Mark Weaver

[Mark Weaver]

David,
Unfortunately there isn’t a “Old Film” style in the
Movie Looks plugin. Also this filter is extremly slow!!!
Anything over 15 minutes of video and you might as well go on
vacation. It does produce great results though.

Mark Weaver

[Mark Weaver]

Aanarav,
NTSC MiniDV is 4:1:1. This is the colorspace subsampling
part of DV compression. The numbers represent (Luminence,
Chroma-Blue, and Chroma-Red).

There is more to it beside colorspace subsampling and the
result is about 5:1 total compression for DV.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Chris,
Thanks for the knowledge… Time to start using
AI again. 🙂

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Chris,
Thanks for the response, but does AE work better with a
large AI layer than it does with a large Text layer? The
motion for my credits is fine. I just can interact with
the TEXT layer very easily because it takes 30sec to delete
one character.

Thanks for the note about AI, forgot about the progam. 🙂

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Craig,
Yes it appears that allowing one project to be used
by more than one editor is not a supported approach.
I was just wondering if this was a method others used.
The consensus appears to be, as you mentioned, just import
sequences from each editor into a main project.

Thanks for the feedback.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Perry,
This would work and is apparently the only solution, but
I was hoping that I missed something in the manual that
made this workflow a little less manual. Arrgg.. Oh well..

Thanks to everyone for the ideas and comments.!!!!

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Mike,
You ask the big question….Even if I have two distinct projects
that use independent DV clips, how does one merge projects together.
From the manual, I don’t see a way to do it. Other than creating
a AVI file from each project then combining these AVI into a
third PPro project.
Oh well… It was just an idea that I hoped would be easy. Back
to the one editor at a time method.

Thanks for the help.

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Aanarav,
Yes the two computers are networked together. I was hoping
that because they were networked and the original DV clips
were on a shared volume that the editing process could be
shared easily. Oh well….

Mark

[Mark Weaver]

Sorry about not giving enough info… Thought I did,
but I guess I’m a little closer to the issue.

Anyway, there are two people wanting to edit a
project. Initially one editor went through and created
15-20 sequences with the appropriate ordering
of the clips.

Now the two editors would like to be able to go through
this project at the same time, splitting the sequences
between the two, and edit them down appropriately, adding
titles music and effects as necessary.

In the end, it is desired, to have one project with all
the sequences connected together to create a complete
video.

Does this make sense?

Mark