Owen Wexler
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“The Bullet” from Video Copilot is an excellent training DVD for the latter.
https://www.videocopilot.net/products/the_bullet/
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Ah… that’s definitely a feature request I’ll be sending over to Adobe then. Thanks much for the info.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Transcoding all your media to ProRes and linking to it with AMA is one way if you have MC5 or above.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Yeah man sports at 24P is gonna = strobing and motion blur galore.
Shoot it at 60i, everyone expects sports footage to look like that anyway.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Aside from the general upsides and shortcomings, I’m largely curious about multiple editors working in the same project at the same time. I just got a second job E2ing at a local production house (Avid-based) and we do this every day. I’m curious if this is also possible with Premiere Pro mainly.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Exports to DVD always produce separate video and audio no matter the format… Premiere/Media Encoder and Final Cut Pro/Compressor both do this. It would be an M2V for the video and a WAV for the audio (or an AC3 instead of a WAV with Compressor).
You would then add the video (M2V) and audio (WAV) files together to a track in your DVD authoring program of choice in order to burn a DVD.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Didn’t upgrade to Snow Leopard until over a year after it was released, probably will do the same with Lion.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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No problem, glad to help.
I have 12 as well but the 11.5 training was all I could find a few months ago and I figured it would apply just as well to 12 for the basics.
I’ll give some of these other links mentioned here a look also as I am still pretty new to C4D myself.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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I work in television… inefficiency is a bad word here, period.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Here’s a couple perspectives on Cinema from another relatively new user:
– 3D animation is a very different animal from 2D and 2.5D animation. Expect a high learning curve, especially if this is your first foray into 3D. Expect to get frustrated — a lot. Don’t give up.
– 3D takes FOREVER to render. This is a fact of life in 3D, especially if you turn up the anti-aliasing and global illumination, etc. Imagine the longest AE render you’ve ever had… that’s the time spent on the PRE-PASS for a 3D render, before the actual rendering even starts. This will increase the time on your projects, and, if you are anything like me, you will tweak a 3D project even more meticulously than you ever did on any 2D or 2.5D project, because the renders are so long that once you commit to a render, going back is that much more costly and painful (and I have already, once, hopefully not again).
– Despite all this, 3D is a powerful tool for creating robust motion graphics and a good skillset to have, so hopefully I didn’t discourage you with those last two points. It’s good to know what you are getting into though.
– Get renders out of your 3D app as soon as possible and do as much as you can in AE or another compositing program. Any 2D or 2.5D compositing, color corrections, film grain, motion blur, etc. is better done in a compositing program – faster, easier, less render intensive, and if changes need to be made it would be a lot less painful. Your example with the clouds should absolutely be done in AE — it would be faster to render, easier to work with and more flexible should changes need to be made.
– I highly recommend Lynda.com’s Cinema 4D R11.5 training (a DVD of it can be found on Amazon), very helpful in learning the basics of Cinema. The Cinema 4D Artists’ Project Sourcebook is also a great read. Also check out Greyscalegorilla.com – it is a fantastic resource for Cinema 4D much like Video Copilot is for AE.
– I’m rendering a C4D project as I type this.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist