[Norman Greenwood]

RAM will help somewhat, and the i7 should be sufficient. Invest in a good Nvidia card and then search Google on the Nvidia hack. This way you can take advantage of the Mercury Pro Hardware Acceleration without breaking the bank. I presently run two GTX480’s, and I never have a problem with DSLR footage. Got a third one, just don’t have enough Watts on the PSU!

[Norman Greenwood]

I completely agree with Ann on using NeoScene. I bought it and it is absolutely great.

However, if you just want to edit as-is, you can choose a setting that gets as close it can be, and then go into the sequence settings and adjust accordingly. AVC-I 100 1080p24 should work nicely as it has everything you want, including a 1.0 square pixel ratio.

I’ve personally never had a hard time editing the footage without NeoScene, but then again I also use a Canon 5DMKII, and I have an 8-core AMD with 16GB of RAM…

[Norman Greenwood]

The easiest way is to do one fade in-and-out on a clip, copy the clip, then right-click and paste the effects onto the other clips. Not automated, but a lot faster than doing each one.

[Norman Greenwood]

Unfortunately, it didn’t work. I thought it would too…

I have a scene with two filters (including Color Finesse), and a color matte on a separate layer above. If I nest without the color matte I can add the 2nd Color Finesse filter. However, when it loads the CF interface it acts as though there is nothing there to color correct in the nested sequence.

If I nest everything including the color matte layer, I can add the 2nd CF filter, but it never loads the interface (just freezes).

Any other ideas? Thanks for the help so far.

[Norman Greenwood]

I know this thread has been dead for a month or so, but I viewed it and had to add something to it for any others that may come across it…

Eric is right as far as how you should have your sequence settings, but you should DEFINITELY TRANSCODE to a different codec. You can look this up or ask any person in the Canon 5D filmmaking forums (that has experience with a Canon 5DMKII workflow) and they will tell you the same.

Premiere Pro CS5 & FCP 7 (I assume FCP X too) can all edit your footage natively, but doing so excludes extra quality that is compressed that you could get from transcoding the footage. For Premiere Pro I would suggest something with an AVI container. For FCP use ProRes 422.

I use NeoScene which transcodes your 5DMKII footage to AVI or MOV depending on your OS. It changes the chroma-subsampling to 4:2:2 from 4:2:0, and moves you color bit-depth from 8 to 10 (4x the color information of 8-bit!). If you plan on doing professional color correction, this software is worth every penny!

Check out the 5DMKII footage done through NeoScene on YouTube, or where ever you can. I bought the codec and have used it for every project since. The amount of visual information that is “enabled” is just remarkable!

Also, unrelated to this issue, if you do own a 5DMKII or 7D, check out the technicolor cinestyle color profile, and the Magic Lantern Firmware (to boost your sound and bit rate quality).

[Norman Greenwood]

Thanks for the reply.

I put up a solid and tried it with the mask and the alpha matte, but it was a no go. I also tried an adjustment layer and the particle layer itself, but neither seemed to worked.

I went ahead and took a different route, but it is unfortunate I could not use the mask as I wanted to.

The only other way that I thought it could work is if I create that layer as a video with an alpha channel and then bring it back into the project and apply the mask. What do you think?

[Norman Greenwood]

I tried that, but it didn’t help.

If I change a clip on the timeline that isn’t one of the original four clips, that will render without a problem.

Initially there had been five clips unrendered, but after opening and closing Premiere a few times and moving the clips around, it finally rendered.

This is really frustrating as I just wanted to create a video for my friend’s birthday.

[Norman Greenwood]

I tried your initial advice, and nothing is grouped, and there are no hidden points scattered about. Still no go.

I will try connecting them with the pen tool and see if I can use the bezier handles to make it look like one line.

Thanks for the help.

[Norman Greenwood]

If you are actually trying to edit a font in Illustrator, I don’t think you’ll have much luck as you won’t be able to export it as a TTF from what I understand.

I do know that CorelDraw allows the exporting of TFF files, you may be able to edit the vectors in there without a problem…

What might be best, if you already have Illustrator, is to also get the program Fontographer (https://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontographer/).

You can work in Illustrator, export it as a EPS file, then import it into Fontographer and get your TFF file.

However, I read one person’s account of the look appearing fine in Fontographer after importing a Illustrator 3 EPS file, then coming out messed up. But then again, this person was working on a Mac, using an old Illustrator file format, and then transferring to a PC. Fontographer has some differentiations when it comes to MAC and PC.

Hope this helps.

[Norman Greenwood]

Thanks, Kevin. I knew it would be something simple. I’m one of those overanalyzer types.