Marlen Mathers
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Hello All –
Similar issue as the post above, but the “FX Bypassed” toggle is not working for me.
I can select “Left Half”, and “Right Half” and see the FX applied to the clip. However, when I choose “Select All” no FX are applied and it is defaulting back to “FX Bypassed”.
Any thought as to why this is happening?
Thanks for any help…
Marlen
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[John Rofrano] “Graffiti is built into Boris RED and I have done Boris RED training so this may be possible. What in particular are you having trouble with? Extruding 3D objects? 3D text?”
John –
Have you given any thought to a possible Graffiti training?
Would love to see a tutorial (even it was just the basics of the program)….
Thanks for considering it…
Marlen
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[John Rofrano] “Graffiti is built into Boris RED and I have done Boris RED training so this may be possible. What in particular are you having trouble with? Extruding 3D objects? 3D text?”
John – I have a few areas that I would like to become more proficient in.
1. An overall understanding of How Graffiti works. This is really basic, but I’m struggling with how to do “work” within the program to get any desired output. Perhaps there is a a tutorial already developed for other Boris products that would assist in my understanding of basic navigation and overall orientation to the software.
2. Extruding 3D objects and 3D text would also help along with keyframing and other motion related actions. These areas alone may help me understand how the program works.
3. Integration and workflow with Sony Vegas Pro. I have Graffiti installed within Vegas, but am having trouble importing any work I do in Graffiti back into the Vegas timeline. For example, I’ll create some “text media” in the Vegas timeline and choose “Event FX” and launch the Graffiti. I’ll work within Graffiti to get something I like, but then struggle to get it back into Vegas (i.e It will look fine in Graffiti, but once brought back into Vegas a “Green” background is present – which wasn’t there in Graffiti)
Any content related to these areas would certainly help me to move forward with Graffiti. I know much of this is pretty basic, but for some reason I don’t have that same “intuitiveness” feel about Graffiti that I had when learning Vegas (or at least I have selected memory of way back then :^)
Thanks for trying to help out here…
Marlen
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John –
I know this may be a little more specific than just Boris, but last year I purchased Boris Graffiti 6 to do similar things with titling and am struggling mightily.
What are the chances of a Graffiti tutorial?
Marlen
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[Mike Kujbida] “Set your PAR to 1.0 (that’s what it is for all the MP4 renders I do) and see what happens.”
Thanks Mike – that did it. Although I’m now getting black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. I can live with that…
Marlen
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Hey Mike – that footage on St Clair College looks great. What Bit rate were you using for the Sony AVC/MVC Internet 1280×720-30p preset? I noted the default template has it at 8M, but that was blowing the file size up quite large for me. I reduced to it 2M and got a decent result. (I shoot mostly talking heads – so not a lot of movement).
I’m still having trouble understanding what is affecting my renders. I took my 1440×1080 clip and tried rendering it as MainConcept AVC/AAC Default Template for 1440×180 PAR 1.333 Variable Bit Rate. While Rendering the aspect looks great (Simulate Device Aspect Ratio & Scale Video to Fit Preview Window are “checked”). However when I open the rendered file, I’m still getting that “squished” look. It almost appears 4:3
I’ll keep tinkering – thanks for your help.
Marlen
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Thanks Mike.
Yes – this does make sense..and as I get to play around with these settings, I’m learning more. I did have the “Simulate Device Aspect Ratio” and “Scale Video to fit Preview Window” both enabled – and was able to see the impact of toggling them on and off. Very helpful.
I am delivering the final video product to the web. For standard video projects I’m shooting 144×1080 and the rendering down to 720×480.
I also offer clients the ability to upgrade to “HD” and shoot those projects in 1920×1080. I then render that project down to 1280×720. (This is just a pricing strategy for people who want a higher quality video experience versus the standard 720×480)
What I just found interesting was that I noticed in my standard 1440×1080 projects that render down to 720×480 I was using a PAR of 0.9091 – and It looks okay. However, after reading your response, I went in and tried changing the PAR to 1.2121. I did that – and noticed that the rendered file came out “squished”. It looked out of aspect ratio. Which I found surprising. I’ll keep tinkering around to see what I can come up with.
One last question, is there another setting versus the 1280×720 that I can use for the web using the 1.333 PAR? I really like that wide aspect ratio, but I don’t want to go much larger that 1280 wide.
Thanks again.
Marlen
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Thanks Mike. That did the trick of filling the screen, but it seems like the wider aspect “came down” to fill the screen rather than the video “widening” to fill the full aspect ratio. Why would the preview window show a much wider aspect with no video (when set at 1.33). Is my original footage not being shot in that format?
Sorry about the “basic” questions here, but I’m trying to understand what I’m shooting in vs what my timeline is set up to edit in.
Thanks.
Marlen
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[John Rofrano] “Hmmm… that’s odd. So the audio is there you just can’t see the peaks. Try View | Rebuild Audio Peaks (Shift+F5) to see if they will come back.
~jr
https://www.j“John – I did figure it out and it was very similar to what you suggested.
The “View – Audio Event Waveform” menu or (CTRL-+Shift+W)did the trick.I dumped a 3hour mp3 into the track and then (CTRL-+Shift+W) and it took a few seconds while it was “Rebuilding Audio Peaks” – and then the waveform appeared. Success!
Marlen
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[John Rofrano] “Hmmm… that’s odd. So the audio is there you just can’t see the peaks. Try View | Rebuild Audio Peaks (Shift+F5) to see if they will come back.”
John – that didn’t do it either. Any other possibilities?
Marlen