[Richard Herd]

A good resource: https://lurkertech.com/lg/fields/

[Richard Herd]

Note: My name really is Herd.

[Richard Herd]

What is the footage? DVCProHD by any chance? Or did someone use Photoshop preset and accidentally set it to DVCProHD?

[Richard Herd]

Sometimes I use prelude to tanscode footage into an intraframe codec. It seems to help if I have lots of footage to go through.

In all cases, though, once in Premiere (CS6 for me), I right click the footage, and I Create New Sequence from Footage.

As for me, I hate rendering in the timeline. Anytime, I see a Red render bar, it bugs me. So I try to keep the footage as un-rendered as possible. There are four states in the timeline:

Red: the timeline needs to render

Yellow: the timeline does not need to render, but the timeline is under some heavy processing, so either take down the playback resolution or beef up the system.

None: all is great in the world.

Green: the timeline is reading render files.

I have to say also that Smart Rendering is pretty cool. It means that once you render the timeline and create the render files, PP keeps track of them to cut down on further rendering times and on export times.

[Richard Herd]

[Bret Williams] “See, I don’t see a role mixer happening”

I’ve written this response about three times now. Finally, it’s concise.

1. The important part of a mixer is the bussing and auxiliary sends (PP has submixes which are cool, but Legacy never did).

2. Roles need to be de-facto busses/auxiliary sends, yet compound clips (aka the Jim Giberti technique) cannot be assigned Roles.

3. Apple please code a Role Inspector. It would be easy and trackless. Click the Roles Inspector Icon (that does not yet exist), where we see a column on the left labeled Roles, under which all of the roles in the particular timeline are listed in alphabetical order. On the right are five simple areas: volume, pan, FX, bus, auxiliary. At this level, we are not messing with time, we can do that below, and when we change those times, it doesn’t matter because the assigned role is still bussed up here, in the role inspector. We are not messing with individual media levels, we can do that below (as a de facto trim knob in the media itself — like adding an expander or compressor, or just dialing the trim). However, we do want to mess with an overall mix, like (you guessed it) Side-chain compression, so when my Actor talks, everything else ducks. There are of course many other techniques.

Thanks!

[Richard Herd]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Dude, just use CC.
“

CS6 till accounting changes the books from capital to expense. Looks like next year, 2015.

[Richard Herd]

Dynamic Link with motion

Side chain compression

[Richard Herd]

[Mitch Ives] “[Bill Davis] “The AZ statute was designed to elevate the rights of “religious groups” ABOVE the rights of other protected classes, among them, those with a specific sexual orientation.”

That’s a rather subjective opinion. Having read the Law, I didn’t come to that conclusion.”

Actually, it does say that (in a legal way). It’s really hard to cut and paste the text because it’s a legal pleading format, but here it is anyway:

7 B. Except as provided in subsection C, government OF THIS SECTION,
8 STATE ACTION shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion
9 even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.
10 C. Government STATE ACTION may substantially burden a person’s
11 exercise of religion only if it THE OPPOSING PARTY demonstrates that
12 application of the burden to the person PERSON’S EXERCISE OF RELIGION IN THIS
13 PARTICULAR INSTANCE is both:
14 1. In furtherance of a compelling governmental interest.
15 2. The least restrictive means of furthering that compelling
16 governmental interest.
17 D. A person whose religious exercise is burdened in violation of this
18 section may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial
19 proceeding, and obtain appropriate relief against a government REGARDLESS OF
20 WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT IS A PARTY TO THE PROCEEDING. THE PERSON ASSERTING
21 SUCH A CLAIM OR DEFENSE MAY OBTAIN APPROPRIATE RELIEF. A party who prevails
22 in any action to enforce this article against a government shall recover
23 attorney fees and costs.

The above selected quote does exactly what Bill says it does, “elevate the rights of religious groups above the rights of other protected classes.” It is done by limiting State Action (in line 8 and 9). But they did not just stop there, the authors realized that there may be instances where line 8 and 9 need to be limited, so they wrote lines 14 and 15. One example of a compelling governmental interest is National Security. I’ll just state it outright: Religious-based Terrorists cannot use the AZ law to get out of trouble.

And to make the law even stronger, line 17 and following define the adjudication when a person whose Religious Rights (as defined by this law) are violated. Not only does line 7 – 9 define State Action, but line 19 and following broaden the law to disputes between private parties.

I bring this up, because other States will pass very similar laws.

[Richard Herd]

And that’s where the Arizona law enters the picture (pun intended), which has been vetoed by the AZ governor and probably won’t have enough votes for an override.

The law can be read here: https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/51leg/2r/bills/sb1062p.pdf

Other states will probably pass very similar laws.

I think the current SCOTUS will strike down the NM law because it is written too broadly, and they will not discuss the First Amendment or LGBT rights.

[Richard Herd]

Don’t forget Ogg video tests too. There’s lots of info to research regarding Ogg, but here’s a good place to start. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp