Michael Hancock
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Probably your best bet would be to use Zaxwerks Invigorator or a 3D program. You can do it with regular 2D layers, but you’ll look depth when it hits the 90 degree mark. Of course, depending on how fast the coin spins, some motion blur could probably mask it, but you wanted it in slow motion. It would be easy in Invigorator. You can download a free 30 day trial from http://www.zaxwerks.com
Michael.
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Hence, the Cow. Always go to the Help guide first and, if that fails you, come to the Cow. The grass is green and delicious, the sun is always shining, and you can typically get great advice from top professionals for free! The folks here have saved me a lot of heartache many, many, many times.
Mike.
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Select all the clips you want to remove the audio log on, right click (or whatever the equivalent is if you’re on a Mac), and select Modify. From there you can go to Set Tracks and deselect the Audio tracks. If it doesn’t allow you to, you’ll need to unlink the clips first.
To Unlink, hold Ctrl + Shift (search Help if you’re on a Mac–I don’t know the Mac shortcuts) and go to Bin–>Unlink (I think it’s under Bin. I’m on an old Xpress Meridien and some stuff has been moved. It might be under Clip). Once unlinked you can modify your clips and batch capture without the audio tracks!
Mike.
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Depends on your settings. If you go to your settings tab and open up Capture Settings and go to Batch you can choose whether or not you Capture at the resolution logged (it will say “Use video compression logged for each clip”). If this is checked, uncheck it.
If it’s not checked just set your resolution to whatever you want in the Capture Tool and Batch Capture. Otherwise, uncheck this setting, set the resolution (in the Capture Tool) to whatever you want and Batch Capture. I can’t imagine why Avid would tell you it can’t be done. Unless I’m really wrong.
Mike.
Perhaps Avid thought you were meaning you had already captured at DV25 and wanted to transcode to a higher resolution. This you can do, but you won’t see an improvement in your video. You’ll still have the same compression, just a bigger file.
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What, exactly, are the import settings you are using? What, exactly, are your render settings out of AE? Also, and this is the most basic thing to look for, is your Adrenaline in high quality mode? All green button at the bottom of the timeline? What resolution are you importing these graphics at?
Mike.
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Sep means exactly what he said…Mojo gives you the ability to work with uncompressed footage.
And never, ever do your titles in DV25 411. They will look like crap.
Since you have the Mojo you can use 1:1 (uncompressed). It should be one of your options on import for media resolution. If you’ve already imported a lot of stuff at DV25 and the original files are still in their original place on your system/network, or you know where they are, delete them in the Avid and batch import them, changing your resolution setting from DV25 to 1:1. You should see a difference, and it will save you a lot of time.
Also, if you’re rendering out of AE with an alpha, make sure you set it to Straight Alpha. Avid doesn’t place nice with premultiplied alphas. Or render out a png or targa sequence and import that. It works just as well, only takes longer to import. But always do your titles at 1:1 (if space allows–if not, at least DVCPro50 or whatever it is, I’m not at a system right now). Let us know if it works.
Mike.
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Are you holding Alt before you select your effect? If so, don’t. Select your effect, start to drag it toward the clip you want to put it on, and hold alt before you get to it, releasing alt after it’s been dropped. For some reason (at least on my machine), if I hold Alt before I select the effect, it doesn’t register. Try it and let us know.
Mike.
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My sentiments exactly Person. While I typically spend my days by myself putting together news promotions, during sweeps I work with the news staff editing our big stories. Nothing is more important than taking into consideration the client’s point of view (although my “client” is a reporter), even if the idea is a real stinker.
If you’re a professional editor you should know your equipment well enough to put a client’s idea together, or at least a rough cut of their idea, very quickly. I do it all the time, often duplicating the sequence, editing their idea, jumping back to the original sequence, editing my idea, and then we compare the two. Rarely takes more than a few minutes. More times than not we find elements that work from both ideas and end up with a better edit than if we had gone with only “their” idea or “my” idea.
Collaboration is key. If they want you to be a button pusher and you’re determined to prove them wrong, take the initiative–come in early, cut it the way you think it should be cut, then offer it to them as an option. But offer it nicely and delicately. The worse that can happen is they say “no”.
Mike.
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You have to remove the transition and reapply it. It’s not asking if you want to split it, it’s telling you it can’t (or won’t. You never know with an Avid 🙂 I assume you’re trying to copy material and you’re copying the transition with the media?
Mike.
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It’s most likely ink dropped into water.
Digital Juice has some stock footage that includes a little bit of this stuff (Their VideoTraxx collection #3, Disc 11). It’s really quite simple to do, though. Just lock down your camera, set an aquarium in front of it, put some white posterboard behind it and drop black ink into the water. Or black posterboard and white ink. Any two highly contrasting colors.
Bring it into your favorite effects capable NLE or compositing program, up the contrast, and voila! Instant luma matte, very popular these days.
Mike.