[Paul Boone]

Hi Wallace, The audio hardware is set to “built-in output”, meaning my laptop speakers, and it works fine on most sequences.

My problem is specifically with multi-cam sequences, I’ve noticed. If I “cmd + double click” on a multicam nest to open it up, I can see that now my .wav file will playback audio (from audio recorder), but neither of the cameras will playback audio, even when I try soloing the track, and both have meters.

If i drag any of these clips to a new sequence, they playback audio fine, but I don’t want to do that every time.

Thanks!

[Paul Boone]

How can I do that.. without losing any frames, or can I? By that I mean, if a clip was 10 seconds at 30fps, when it converts it to 24fps, I don’t want a 10 second clip, I want a 12 sec clip (approximately..) that runs at 80% speed.

Thanks

[Paul Boone]

Ok.. I guess the shortcut is option + UP arrow key.

I ran into media limits because the audio and video were connected. Ideally I don’t want to disconnect the audio from the video, but I suppose in this stage I could disconnect them, and then reconnect them later.

Any workflow suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!

[Paul Boone]

Excellent! It wiggles!

I’ll go through some tutorials and play with the numbers to get it right.

Can expressions be keyframed?

Thanks a lot!

[Paul Boone]

Thanks Michael! Puppet tool is fantastic.

How do I put a wiggle expression on the flowers?

[Paul Boone]

Thanks Ivan,

Working natively makes sense so I don’t adjust frame rates, but I’d like to rename my files on ingest for organization. I’m used to FCP 7 to do this.

I haven’t used Adobe Prelude before, but this seems like the Adobe option to rename clips in a similar way. If I edit natively, I’m just pointing to the clips, or can I also rename them? It looks like I would have to transcode the footage to have the option to rename.

For this project, I can edit natively and point to media, but in the summer, I get mass amounts of footage every day, and would want to rename the files. Also, for avchd footage in particular, I’m told I should copy the entire folder structure from a card to edit natively, which would mean keeping all of my media. This would be way more footage than I’d want to keep.

So any suggestions in the future, of a way to rename and keep only certain clips.. would I have to transcode? Should I use prelude for this, or can I do this in Premiere?

[Paul Boone]

Hi Don,

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it was already set to “show edges”

It looks like illustrator is recognizing the entire frame I exported from PS (tif file with transparency) as an image that stretches edge to edge. I got it to recognize transparency, and now I want to isolate just the person, from the entire frame.

I’ve done image tracing, which, from searching online, sounds like its how to do what I want, but.. I don’t know.. I want to keep the “cartoon” version that image tracing created, though.

I’m uploading an image of what my screen looks like:

I’m watching a tutorial on 2d animation that shows what I want. The screenshot below shows just the hand isolated from the body, and there’s different layers for all the parts. This is my final goal for the character, so I can bring it into AE and animate it, but to start, I’m just trying to get the whole person on 1 layer. The blue dots around the hand, and the blue square bounding box around it. Why is the box around my image red?

[Paul Boone]

Ok, that’s good to know that premiere wouldn’t be much better for collaboration. In the summer this is important to me but if they’re equal I’d rather use Premiere.

I want a whole suite that I can roundtrip in. I do animations in AE and photoshop for photography. I liked FCS because I could use all the applications together. FCPX with the way it interacts with other apple media software is just not appealing to me.

I’m starting to do freelance work while I’m just working part time at the summer camp in the off season so I can use all their equipment. I want to use software that will be valuable in getting a job and making money. I know FCS, which some people use and everyone else in my area (Vancouver) seems to use Adobe and some use Avid, which is too expensive and isn’t really appealing to me.

So, my priorities are a software that will make me money in the film industry. I don’t really see apple having a future in the professional world, but more for hobbyists. I’d start Premiere for camp as well so I can learn the software well. So will Premiere be significantly slower than FCPX with my computer system? Are there any glitches? Any problem with round-tripping?

[Paul Boone]

Wow, thanks for the info! I really liked FCPX for skateboard videos because I pretty much use variable speed change on every clip so I might use FCPX for this

When I used FCPX for slow-mo, I first batch conformed all my clips from 60p to 24p using cinema tools. Should I still use Cinema Tools to conform first if I’m using Adobe? Is there anything in Adobe that will conform footage to 24p?

What’s the deal with Smoke? I’ve looked into FCP Avid and Adobe.. is autodesk something to seriously consider? I guess all the jobs I look into use Adobe, FCP7 or Avid, but now I’m curious. Is Smoke up and coming?

Paul Boone

[Paul Boone]

darn.. thanks. I’ll try to pitch that at work