[Mike Cohen]

I did not intend to open the project in 2.0, but since both are installed, when I double clicked the project file it defaulted to 2.0. Now I always use right click – open with… to be certain.
That being said, one of the backups was pretty close to my most recent save out of 1.5 so hope remains!

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

Seems to depend on the system.
I installed QT 7, and Premiere Pro 1.5, Photoshop and Encore DVD all stopped working.
But others have installed without incident.

[Mike Cohen]

just take a frame or two from each clip, or use stills for that matter

[Mike Cohen]

Watch the VH1 show “Fabulous Life of…” Most of that show is done with outrageous animated stills/layering.
It is tedious, but good things take time.
As long as you are teaching kids, please tell them about things like color temperature, white balance and audio attenuation – not sure those things are taught anymore based upon some conversations I have had with youngsters.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

didn’t there used to be a program which could read timecode off a burn-in on the video picture? If you could export your raw AVI files with a TC burn-in to windows media or something smaller, do your edits, then have a plug-in read the timecode from your off-line clips, build a new edl, and use your original AVI files to rebuild the program. This is similar to how we used to do an offline edit in the tape days. I did actually edit with VHS window dubs a few times, then manually create an EDL and voila, online edit no problem.
Granted it would take some time to make the offline clips, but if you are hitting the road for a week, the half day spent making offline files would be worth the effort.

Remember making b-reels for online edit sessions? Anyone? Bueller?

SOmething like this is done when cutting film, matching edge code with time-code, and there is software for that. Maybe something similar could be adapted.

[Mike Cohen]

Too bad some genius can’t write a plug-in where you can batch convert your captured AVI files to windows media, retaining the time-code information (even with a related xml file or something) then edit offline with those files, and finally conform with the originals. While storage is cheap, using an external USB hard drive on say an airplane is difficult.
Unfortunately, I am not that genius.
Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

Michel Gondry has made some of the best videos over the past decade – his work is the Michael Mann influence of the 21st century, in my opinion.

[Mike Cohen]

Thanks.
I once in a while tell people, “In the time I have been running my G3 every day, cranking out product, I have changed my PC 4 times.”

[Mike Cohen]

If you can keep the person within different areas of the screen, for example have the talent dance in each of 4 vertical non-overlapping sections of the screen, then use garbage mattes to combine the 4 shots. Just make sure the lighting and background do not change from shot to shot – also may want to set the camera to record and not touch it at all.

If you want more than the number of occurences of the same person in a shot, and have some overlap, you might try this – although Premiere might not do it:

Position some rectangles of green material behind the talent, in the overlap sections of the scene. Then once you have recorded the “foreground” shots, position your talent in front of the green, then with the positions set, remove the green, and get the shots. Then, assuming the camera has not moved for any of the shots, use AE to key the background shots into the green areas, thus having overlapping actions, without completely compositing every shot.

Don’t know if that would work, but might be an interesting experiment.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

It seems no matter which format we select, you will occasionally find people who have issues (firewall won’t permit streaming windows media, corporate IT departments don’t update windows media player, Mac took a while to get updated media player).

Most people stay away from Real player as the software takes over your computer (not really but it tries to play things it can’t play).

We are playing with Flash video in some new projects. Once we get people to update their Flash player, no complaints. As others have pointed out YouTube uses Flash and they have a huge audience.

I like Quicktime best, but especially on the PC side of the universe, not enough people keep that updated, or have it at all (especially in corporate setting)