[Paul Boone]

sweet, got it

[Paul Boone]

Sweet,

Thanks for the help Dave and Michael. I think I’ve got a good enough grasp of parenting, and pre-composing for this project. It’ll be shown a few times, so for this Sunday, I think it will be more basic but thats ok.

That link is helpful. I’ll check it out.

It makes sense to forget what you knew and start over to kind of understand how AE works in a broader way. I’m wondering, I know I’ve seen something that’s almost like a chart of certain tools in FCP or Motion and the equivelant in Premiere, AE. There’s stuff I know what I want to do, and I know how to do it in Apple, and I know that you must be able to do this stuff in Adobe but in a different way..

I’ll figure it out piece by piece. I’m having fun learning this stuff.

Thanks

[Paul Boone]

That sounds like it would work, but I was hoping for the option to be flipping back and forth a bit. This might not be possible.. but when I was working in FCP and Soundtrack Pro, I’d send the file to Soundtrack Pro, tweak something, hit save, and it would automatically be updated in my FCP project. That way when I made changes, I could check how it fit the video right away, adjust and check again, and so on. You can do that with FCP and Pro Tools as well.. I’m hoping you can do that with After Effects and Soundtrack Pro.

Thanks for the tip, though. If it doesn’t work the other way, this might be good.

[Paul Boone]

[Todd Terry] “Sadly, the answer is no. If the CCDs are actually the issue, that repair would cost much more than the value of the camera, especially considering that it is older and probably not worth that much.

I have one dead pixel in an otherwise-mint XLH1 and the repair facility we use told us that they could indeed fix it, but that it would require replacing the entire chip block and would be cheaper just to buy a brand-new camera body (and the H1 is a relatively expensive camera).”

So this should be good news then right? I mean.. I’m really hoping that my footage is coming out badly because of my own incompetence and the camera is fine.

Is there anything else that could be wrong with the camera? One other thing, I can’t really zoom in other than slightly or the picture will be completely blurred with nothing recognizable. does this give any more info?

[Paul Boone]

[Brian Miller] “better yet you should media manage your sequence. that will make a new sequence with everything offline, and a list of just the clips actually used in the cut…”

I was told that media manager can be risky to use. That it was fine for making backup copies but I’m kind of scared to delete the original file if I just have the media managed copy. I guess if I try the new copy and some files work, it should all be fine?

[Paul Boone]

Thanks Michael,

that’s really helpful info. How do you downgrade from HD to DV?

Just curious, why should I use ProRes instead of ProRes (HQ)? Is the (HQ) only for certain formats like RED?

[Paul Boone]

[Shane Ross] “Why do you do this? This is bad on many levels. 1) Lose timecode information…ORIGINAL timecode, so any reference to the tape is gone. 2) Lose reel information…same reason, zero reference to tape. 3) Recompression…you are adding a generation loss to the footage.

Do you know about how to SUBCLIP? Take the master clips, and mark IN and OUT, press CMD-U and it makes a NEW clip, that you can name however you please, and the master clip remains untouched. I am unsure how you can name “section” of a clip.”

Sweet, Thanks Shane. This is very helpful. I am pretty new and unknowledgable about editing so I’ve just been learning from tutorials.

Someone posted a link to a way to export to quicktime without losing quality (or maybe just not losing as much quality), but it doesn’t work. If anyone knows how to export to quicktime files without losing quality or the best method that would be great to hear.

Thanks

[Paul Boone]

[Mike Raff] “Digital Heaven, maker of very cool FCP plug-ins, has a couple of freebies, including one or two that will do what you need”

Thanks Mike! This is exactly what I’m looking for. Much appreciated.

Paul

[Paul Boone]

[Jason Jenkins] “I like Nattress Film Effects and it’s only $100.”

cool, thanks for the suggestion. I’m not really making much money doing this right now but I’ll check it out for later.. or try to convince the camp to get it for me.

Anything that comes with the program that anyone can suggest for now?

[Paul Boone]

[Kevin Monahan] “Viking boy. 😉
Didn’t you post the other day? What didn’t you find out from that post?”

Because I didn’t get an answer?