Michael Thomson
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Jack
Has the alpha got soft edges? in which case a pre-multiplied alpha could pull a dull/blackish halo around the alpha edges in the AVID. Don’t know why the AVID can’t treat a pre-multiplied alpha the way its intended but it really is something they should fix!!!
Have you tried taking the matte and footage into After Effects or another similar compositing package and tried the same again. Generally these programmes deal with alphas and mattes far better than the AVID can.
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Personally i think its nonsense.
The human voice operates on lots of frequencies. Even the most competent VO artist’s frequency will change dramatically over a read. Besides that humans tend to register in the mid to high range. Broadly speaking the melody of a music track tends to sit here. Basically following your intructers advise just leave the music out or stick a drone under the VO.
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Hey,
Add two lights, one a global* light far away from the text, but enough to illuminate it without a fade off to one side, then make the second light a spot. Animate the spot accross the text and make the colour different to the global light or else it wont show i.e. make the ambient/global light white and the spot a shade of yellow etc.
*sorry i can’t remember the exact name of the light, but its the global or ambient light something like that.
HTH
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Grinner,
All i can say is Granny rocks!!!
I think if i could pick holes that seeing her crowd surf the living room could have been the piece de resistance, but never the less its great.
Its true sometimes a pet project helps clear the head a little, but i often get fatigued at the thought of working when im supposed to not be. Guess i spend enough hours doing it for real.
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Tips and shortcuts – where would we be without them!!!!
+ Open a project without any bins open by holding down the alt key when you load it. (we’ve all opened the odd project with 90 bins open at the start!!!)
+ Select all tracks by hitting Ctrl + A, deselect them all by hitting Ctrl + Shift + A
+ Switch audio (and video) track monitoring off/on by hitting ALT + (shortcut to V1, V2, A1, A2 etc)
+ Save an effect with its source to a bin by holding ALT when dragging the effect icon (from Effect Editor) into the bin.
+ In colour correction – quickly sort an incorrectly balanced shot by clicking the eyedropper tool onto something in the image that should be white. (may need more correction but gives a good headstart)
+ To find media files easily on your drives type RENAMEMEDIAFILES into the console, this will rename every file on the drives based on the project and the clip names.
+ Rather than copying to the clipboard then pasting into the source monitor, just highlight the portion of the timeline you want and hit ALT and C.
+ Create a folder in the project folder for any graphics/audio files that you import, that way when you back the project files up everything is on the same disk.
Better get back to editing somemore. Hope some of these help.
🙂
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Hi,
Try Sorenson Squeeze. It ships with Adrenaline now-a-days too.
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Hi,
delete the media files for the wrong tape clips. Make sure that you don’t delete the clip info.
Then highlight all and go to clip>modify>set source. Change the tape name then batch capture. This means capturing but resolves the relinking issue.
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Hey
Im not an xpress user so im not sure what all is in it, sorry. However i did build a similar sequence recently and used an audiosuite plug-in called deverb during the ‘dream’ by playing with the decay, room acoustics etc you can get an otherworldy feel that might help the audience identify the sequence as not being ‘part of this world’.
Might be worth a shot!
🙂
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Hi
The effects should be look suite, misfire, and de-artifacter. The 2.0 you refer to is the name of the magic bullet suite which is Editors V2.0.
Once installed these should be saved in the AVX Plug-in folder, and within the AVID these should be in the Effect Pallete (Ctrl + 8, or tools>effect pallete).
Your post didn’t specify which AVID system you are running but Magic Bullet requires a system running AVX 1.5 so if you don’t have a compatible system then you can’t use it.
Hope that helps if not then try the manufacturers site for support:
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Cybelle,
Sorry just read my earlier post, hope it made sense i was rushing before a meeting.