[Richard Herd]

It’s Mavericks too. THank you!

[Richard Herd]

[Jeremy Garchow] “OSX allows a one click upload to Vimeo right from the finder”

And now I have searched the Vimeo tools to find this thing, but cannot find it. Where/how does this happen? Thanks!

[Richard Herd]

Storing the media on the system drive can be problematic because you are asking the main HD to do a lot. It’s best to get a dedicated media drive and keep your media on it. I organize mine according to project name. These are called the scratch disk. In the Project > Project Settings… > Scratch Disk you can tell PP where to store stuff.

Once your media are on the Scratch Disk (a totally separate disk), then you use the Media Browser to import the media into the Project Pane.

[Richard Herd]

[Kevin Lischke] “Any ideas?”

Where are you storing the videos?
And how long are they?

[Richard Herd]

The forward/backward motion effect appears to be after effects scripting. There is forum for it here on the cow.

In AE, select the video layer. In the Layer menu choose Time > Enable Time Remapping

And that creates a new drop down item on the layer called Time Remap. Option click the stop watch to open the Expression dialogue-thing and copy paste the following:

//TIME REMAPPING

n = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“n”)(“Slider”); // play every n frame
m = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“m”)(“Slider”); // play m times
f = timeToFrames();
p = Math.floor(f/m);
framesToTime(p*n);

//endpaste

When you hit the enter on the number pad you will get an error. Just hit ok.

Then create null layer, and then select the null and Effect > Expression Controls > Slider Controls.

Make two slider controls. Select one, hit enter, and rename it to n. Select the other, hit enter, and rename it to m.

Back to the expression, highlight all of the text: thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“n”)(“Slider”) and choose the little pickwhip icon, a spiral looking thing, and drag that to the Slider control you just made on the null layer and named n. Do the same thing for m.

At this point, there should be no errors, and you can use the sliders to change the motion effect until you get what you want. You can also keyframe those sliders and make things do awesome stuff.

That will give you the jitttering forward/backward motion effect.

[Richard Herd]

And…

Obviously he hasn’t used X 🙂

[Richard Herd]

[Andrew Kimery] “It’s much easier to budget money and time around proven workflows than it is to lose money and time chasing down a problem you didn’t know existed.”

This is true of every business in the whole world.

[Richard Herd]

[John Gillham] “I add the clip to the EDL,”

An EDL is an Edit Decision List, so I’m not sure what you mean. CTI is the current time indicator. And the sequence is where we edit.

I assume you are talking about the sequence. You’ve added a clip to a sequence and now you can only see a part of it.

Try this instead: In the project pane, right click the clip and choose “New Sequence from Clip.”

[Richard Herd]

Also worth noting is the singer is in sync sound and the actors are overcranked.

[Richard Herd]

Hip Hop Montage

Hip hop montage[edit]
A hip hop montage is a subset of fast cutting used in film to portray a complex action through a rapid series of simple actions in fast motion, accompanied by sound effects. The technique was first given its name by Darren Aronofsky, who used the technique in his films Pi and Requiem for a Dream to portray drug use.[1] The technique is derived from the hip hop culture of the 1990s and jump cuts first pioneered in the French new wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_cutting