Michael Hancock
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If you’re on a PC, you can use the free version of a program called PrimoPDF. Find it here:
Select your bin (or anything you can print, for that matter) and choose to Print. You’ll see PrimoPDF under your printer options. Select it and hit Print. It may a take a few seconds, but a new box will pop up where you can customize the settings of the PDF, choose where to save it, and even have it automatically open it after making the PDF, email the PDF, or do nothing. I just tried it on my Avid and it works great.
Michael.
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Hello Kiya,
I’ve never worked in 720P, but have you tried exporting a quicktime reference from your 720P project (what framerate?), then making an SD project (of the same framerate) and importing it? It should automatically downrez on import, I think. Again, I haven’t worked in 720P, but it’s the first thing that popped into my head.
Michael.
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The only way to get two rows of buttons under the Source/Record monitors in Xpress Pro is to import user settings from Media Composer. Otherwise, it’s not a feature that’s included.
To get two rows of info above the Source/Record monitors, you need to upgrade to Media Composer ($495 US, from any version of Xpress Pro). There’s no other way (that I’ve ever heard) to get more info rows in Xpress.
Michael.
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Media Composer is incredibly picky about the hardware you run it on. Check the system requirements here:
Media Composer System Requirements
Any deviation from them and you might have a system that won’t run. The most problems are caused by running an unapproved OS (Windows XP 32bit, Vista Business 32 and 64 bit are the only two approved OS’s on a PC), an unapproved Graphics Card (nVidia Quadro cards are they only approved cards), and unapproved processors (AMD = BAD for Avid…go Intel).
I’m not saying Media Composer won’t run on your system, but there’s no guarantee. Can you get a dealer to install it on you system to try it, or do you have a friend who has it so you can give it a test run?
Michael.
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I don’t know any editors personally who have had it done, but I’m meeting with a Lasik surgeon this afternoon about doing his production. I’ll ask him about the Halo effect and how often it really occurs.
Michael.
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This is the Pleasantville Effect. Depending on the colors in your shot, try this (simplified example).
Put the same clip on V1 and V2. Let’s say it’s a Red Rose on a green background.
V2: [CLIP_A]
V1: [CLIP_A]On V1, add your color effect or color correction and make it Black and White. On V2, add a Spectramatte Keyer effect.
Hold Ctrl (PC) or Cmd (Mac, I think) and click the Monitor on V2 to show only that layer. It will turn green.
Open your effect editor and use the keyer to choose the color you want to keep. For this example, choose the Red in the rose.
Pull your key so all the Red is gone, then choose to Invert your key (it’s an option in the Spectramatte keyer). You may have better luck if you invert first then adjust your key.
Now click the monitor on V2 again so it isn’t highlighted green. You’ll now see the Red from the rose, which you keyed out then inverted to keep only the red, over the same clip–which you made black and white.
Michael.
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Glad you got it sorted out, and thanks for posting your solution. It will come in handy if future editors come across this thread.
Michael.
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The default Keyframe keyboard shortcut on Media Composer is the “n” key. Open you keyboard settings to see if it’s mapped. If it’s not, it’s in the Command Palette, but I can’t remember under what tab (not in front of a system).
Also, in your Timeline Fast Menu turn your Auto Gain and Clip Gain settings on. That way you can manually set your keyframes to your audio clips.
Michael
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Xpress Pro 5.8 versus Media Composer 3.x. The same, but on Media Composer you also get:
More resolutions.
More effects. Namely Spectramatte (chromkeyer), Animatte, better shot stabilization, keyframeable timewarps…
More realtime playback enabled. XPress Pro is artificially limited to playing back 1 stream of 1:1 footage. Media Composer is limited only
by your system specs.More info about your work–two lines of info above your Source/Record monitors, two rows of buttons, more lines in your timecode window, etc…
Some more keyboard shortcuts – Top and Tail edit, Select Clips To Right/Left of position indicator, and Between In/Out marks.
These are the major differences I can think of. Otherwise, they share the same codebase, so they’re nearly identical in terms of operating the software.
Good luck!
Michael.