[Matt Davis]

Hi Catherine,

Did you ever resolve this issue?

I’m having something similar happen to me. I had a long project that I was then creating a cut-down version of. I took the timeline for my long video, duplicated it and renamed it “project short” or something like that. Made my edits and away I went. When I came back to make a small change to the shorter project the sound from the clips I’d deleted for the cut-down edit were suddenly there and the sound from the clip I was seeing, was not there. I checked for any stray audio tracks that I’d somehow forgotten to delete…bizarre.

[Matt Davis]

Have you considered doing the time/speed changes in Premiere? The downside is it’s harder to make changes on the fly if you want to tweak the ins and outs of your slow down effect.

Maybe Dynamic Link between Premiere and AE can help you there though.

[Matt Davis]

Awesome. Thanks.

[Matt Davis]

I’ve never used it in this way…but you might be able to do something with Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control.

Maybe Timewarp effect and then Alt Click the speed stop watch and pick whip it to the slider control?

Sorry, I would do a test to confirm, but I’m here looking for an answer of my own and your question distracted me. 🙂

[Matt Davis]

That would have been so much easier than the way I did it. lol

[Matt Davis]

“Sokath, his eyes open!”

Thanks, I knew there was a way. 🙂

[Matt Davis]

This thread never went to the finish line. ☺

But since I’m trying to do something along these lines maybe I’ll pick it up.

I’m convinced that I’ve managed something like this before but I’m having a hard time remembering how, so maybe someone can help.

I’m trying to create an effect with a magnifying glass. The actual magnifying through the glass part is easy enough, but for part of my effect the glass is meant to reveal something that isn’t there when the magnifying glass isn’t over it.

So what I need to do is one part magnifying glass, one part x-ray machine, I guess. lol

It’s a video about high tech fraud and one layer is a globe, one layer is a magnifying glass and another layer is a matrix type screen of animated code. When the magnifying glass passes over the globe, it magnifies the globe but also reveals the animated code. Get it? ☺

I’m looking for an easier way to have the mask follow the magnifying glass around. Right now I’ve made a mask on the “x-ray layer” lined up with the glass of the magnifying glass and then keyframed the masks’ path to follow the magnifying glass. But anytime I need to tweak the motion of the glass, I need to redo all my keyframes too. It’s one of those “there has to be a better way” moments.

Thanks in advance.

[Matt Davis]

Hi Ty,

Yes no audio received in the iPad whatsoever with the mixer as the source.

I used my headphone plug (the old jam it in the end of the XLR and make the rings touch the right contacts trick) to ensure that there was nice beautiful clean sound coming down the cable.

Like I said, my work around was to plug it into a Zoom H4 (two channel portable recorder/mixer) and use it’s output to go into the iPad.

The iRig adapter uses the iPad’s headphone jack as the input and it has worked fine for me with a single mic before. The Zoom H4 goes in via USB to Lightning.

I could just use this workaround going forward, but it’s bizarre that I need to. Why would the iRig or iPad care what the source of my signal was? Both are mic level, both are mono feeds…

Weird…

[Matt Davis]

Bill has the right idea here, I think. Especially if they need to be ON CAMERA as they whisper. You don’t have much choice. Be sure to record some room tone (sound on set with no one talking or doing anything) to add to your ADR mix though.

[Matt Davis]

Thanks for this! In case anyone else is wondering, this works even if your photoshop project contains only black and white objects.

I didn’t even consider colour mode, as I was only working with black vector images on a white backdrop.

Thanks again for this….even 7 years later.