[Mike Cohen]

every time I use a track matte it is difficult. If you want to animate the track matte, sometimes it works better if you do the matte as a nested sequence.
It can get confusing.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

We bought a refurbished M100qx board from B+H back in 1999 which ran Premiere 5.0 on a G3. We later replaced it with a refurb M100 LE which believe it or not we are still using 8 years later.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

in researching an HD edit system based upon Premiere, it seems you spend about the same $10,000 – $15,000 whether you go with Axio or AJA or Blackmagic solutions – you need the best processor, high end video cards and RAID storage.

If editing HDV only you can save a lot of money, but it seems to make sense to have one system that can edit anything.

[Mike Cohen]

Regarding Premiere testers using small projects, it is interesting to note that at Adobe’s NAB booth, the guys demo-ing Premiere CS3 were basically showing one feature at a time, using generally 1 track.
At Blackmagic’s booth they were running scenes from movies out of Premiere 2.0 into HD monitors, I guess to show that it can be done, but again, nothing complex.

It would be great to see Adobe create a full hour show on a sequence and try to use that in a demo without a freeze, lockup or other headache.

Again, normally Premiere works great, this thread seems to be about Adobe not putting it through its proper paces.

We all have one or more of these attached to our computers
https://www.cooldrives.com/esata-usb-enclosure-removable.html

You can put any size hard drive in them, and swap the drives easily. Each major new project gets a drive, we seem to order 4 drives and they get snatched up instantly.

I am determined to get a 1 TB drive just to use for backups.

Funny to think we once ran a Media 100 with 2 9gig drives.

[Mike Cohen]

I would start with a discussion of static graphics, that is, the development of text-based graphic design. Early to mid-20th century typography design set the standard for a lot of what is done today. Basic layout applies whether static or moving.
Read the Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. Those principles can be applied to motion graphics.
I would call my local tv station and ask to speak with the in-house motion graphics artist, see if you can conduct an informational interview, and pick his or her brain for concepts and techniques, then see how you can relate those presnt day/technology based techniques to classeic design principles.

Good luck, let us know where to read the thesis, since few people have actually gone to school for this. Well, maybe today you do.

[Mike Cohen]

Film and Video magazine had a cover story about BG’s HD workflow some time ago. Check their website.

[Mike Cohen]

a few months ago I spent a whole day trying to project manage one project. It kept crapping out, and being a Windows program gives no details on why it stopped. I made multiple copies of the project, isolating selected sequences, deleting other sequences, until I had new projects for nearly all of the sequences. Only problem is, it took up almost as much space as I was using before. With the cost of drives, I decided to leave it alone.

When I project manage a smaller project, say a 15 minute edit with 3-4 hours of raw footage, that usually works fine and give me a nice compact project. But really big projects seem to bring Premiere to a halt.

I suspect the engineers who design these programs never make really complex projects to test the program.

Regarding moving to another drive, re-linking seems to be the norm. Even when I have not transferred to another drive, I need to make sure my drives always come up as the same Letter, or else Premiere acts like it can’t find anything and sometimes needs to re initialize the audio, which takes forever.

There is a good post on this blog talking about backup up stuff. The author backs up everything, which I think I will start doing, given the age, time used and heat generated of some of my drives.
https://lfhd.blogspot.com/

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

Can any PC based editing systems do this? It seems FCP and Media 100 do this by default, maybe it’s the Mac.

[Mike Cohen]

So this while transition to Digital TV has to do with the broadcast signal, not the content, right?

In other words you can be a digital st station broadcasting stuff off BetaSP or U-Matic for that matter. Digital TV and HDTV are two different things.

[Mike Cohen]

What is the original image? Your grading looks a bit too yellow to me – what are you trying to suggest with your colors?