[Orion Mccaw]

I’m having the same error but with Premiere 2018 and with After Effects 2018. Did you manage to fix it at all?

I should mention I’m on OS 10.11.1

I feel like this happens every time I update anything with Adobe CC it really drives me crazy.

[Orion Mccaw]

Hey, did you ever find a solution for this? I seem to be having the same issue.

[Orion Mccaw]

alright, thanks for the help!

[Orion Mccaw]

Hey guys, Thanks for the tips. I should mention that at the studio we’re running the Avid on a PC.

@Richard: Do you know if there is a process for doing the same thing on a PC?

@Michael: I think I read your post about this when I was looking into this issue. Definitely annoying that they haven’t replaced the functionality. Textwrangler appears to be Mac software, would Notepad++ work the same way? Also when you say ‘checking’ ALEs do you mean that you would go into Excel and make your changes, then bring it into Textwrangler and remove the extra formatting that excel adds? Or, do you do all your changes in Textwrangler?

Thanks a bunch!
-Orion

[Orion Mccaw]

Okay this is a great place to start thanks a bunch guys. I think I’m gonna start by trying some tests with flipping some shots to cineform and I’ll probably be upgrading to some sort of RAID setup in the near future.

[Orion Mccaw]

Wouldn’t a single SSD be less cost effective to hold all the media that I would need for an hour long 4k show?

When you say “flip” to a different format such as cineform do you mean as a proxy or do you mean as a permanent switch?

[Orion Mccaw]

It will be just under an hour in length

[Orion Mccaw]

Ahh okay, thanks for the help!

Is that my only option or are there any other ways of getting around this?

would the “Error compiling movie. Unknown Error.” be cause by this same issue?

[Orion Mccaw]

oh I’m being silly, I’m fairly new to premiere and now that you mention it, it makes total sense that it also has a screen blending mode. I’ll play around with that and see if I can accomplish what I’m going for.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Orion Mccaw]

I’ll try to explain this a little clearer. I like the way the blending mode screen works because it’s simple and quick for all the footage I’ve had to do this to. the only problem is that I need to layer a star field behind the footage for the blending mode to work. this is okay except that sometimes I use the same video clip in different parts of my show which require different star fields in the BG. so this brings me to my question.

I’m wondering if any of you talented AE wizards out there know of any tricks so that I don’t require a BG to use the screen blending mode. This would allow me to remove the sky, render it out once with an alpha channel, and use it on all my star fields (in Premiere). Of course without doing anything, if I have the screen blending mode selected and no BG then I don’t have a transparent sky.

I’m self taught with this stuff so I’m not sure if this is even possible or not but I thought I’d ask you folks. Maybe it’s easier to key out the sky another way

Here’s an example of one of the shots I’m working with. (this is one of the harder shots. for this to work I would add 2 of the video files into the comp, set the bottom one to screen, and do a rough mask around the ground stuff so that any black on the ground isn’t removed)