Mike Cohen
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either capture parts of the tape separately, or cut out the pieces you don’t want on your sequence.
If you do not have the 13 gigs available on your hard drive for the file, then you are in need of a bigger hard drive. -
in the wedding I am currently editing I made a rectangular mash and softened the edges on the inside so the ceremony appears within a soft white frame, yet the video itself remains sharp.
Are you using a lot of other effects? I’m not.
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people seem to spend lots of time testing software, and then after choosing software waiting for the mpg files to render out to AVI.
Just find the sections you need and copy from your DVD player to a DV tape, then go ahead in the usual fashion.
So many people are using DVD for things besides a delivery medium, and it can lead to a lot of headaches if you try to fit it into a workflow in which it is not welcome.
Mike Cohen
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convert everything to AVI for the most problem-free editing.
Usually I capture off a DVD player – takes less time than converting one file format to another.
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setup the two clips as a split screen, so as you adjust one clip you see how it compares to the other. You may need to flip flop between the two clips to get them close. Then you can copy and paste attributes from the corrected dark clip to the other similarly corrected dark clips, etc.
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depending upon the amount of realism you are going for, you can get a model from turbosquid, and use a free program like anim8or to create a 3d fly-by – if using it as a transition (ie, fast) it might be ok. If looking for realism, then as the others said, stock footage may be the way to go.
Give more details as to what you want and you will get more detailed answers.Mike
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hmm, I never noticed that but it’s true, you have to delete the keyframes one at a time.
However you can enable the track for writing and selectively re-mix portions of the timeline, and it overwrites your keyframes with the latest settings.
If you want to adjust audio on the fly for one clip, you can do it from the effects controls – which works pretty well – although not using the audio mixer for adjusting audio on the fly is a bit abnormal.
On the Media 100 for example, you can use the audio mixer to adjust clip or track volumes with the same slider, and it goes from clip to clip on the fly. It would be nice if you could adjust clip volumes on the fly without having to stop between clips. Basically you should be able to do the same thing as when you mix a track, but have the keyframes reference the clips.
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Well, Windows XP is the first problem if you want stability 🙂
Seriously, I have a AMD Athlon XP dual core 4200+ HP with 1 gig of RAM and it seems to run pretty smoothly for standard definition work. I use external USB 2 drives.
If you are doing HDV you probably want to read some of the other posts and need a better setup.
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Just use the same settings as your project, if you are editing in DV-AVI. Should not be any black bars, unless you are using 640×480 video, such as not DV.
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did you set the input to the microphone in your windows volume control?
do you have another audio program you can test with, to see if the problem is Premiere or your system?
audacity is a free open source audio program which is pretty good if you don’t have audition or sound forge.