[Ron Dangus]

John, thanks for your reply. I found my mistake: I motion stabilized using Mercalli as a plug-in, forgetting that the tracking was done on the original footage. That’s the reason the null object was jumping around while my footage wasn’t.

I precomposed the footage, tracked and masked onto the original stuff, and then applied Mercalli to the new, masked precomp.

That way it looks perfect

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks for your help so far, Craig. iTunes doesn’t play audio, as well as an mp4 as m4v.

Licensing problem? How would i fix that?

[Ron Dangus]

Hej Craig, thanks.

I only have windows vista, so can’t try the things you proposed. I did try to change it to mp4, but that doesn’t change anything: only audio in VLC. (Although I got some easier playback in the other players, but still mute.)

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks for your responses.

Jeff, I’ve tried installing multiple AC3 codecs, but none of them seem to work. All I find is Perian, which wouldn’t work on my windows. Is there an alternative?
And yes, I’m trying to convert to DNxHD to get workable files.

Craig, a friend gave me my material after he converted it to m4v. Don’t really know why he did that. So I don’t have the original MTS files.

The only program I can get the files to display video & audio is VLC, so I guess they have a codec on board.

So, I guess the thing I need is the right codec. Know which one would help?

I’ve tried CCCP, FFD Show, AC Filter

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks,

So, if I have 6421 pictures, and I want them all to show once for just a frame, it’ll be:

n=6421;
seg_start_time = 0; //initial conditions
seg_end_time = 0;
i =1;
tmin = .5; //minimum cycle time
tmax = 2; //maximum cycle time
while (time >= seg_end_time){
i = i+1; seed_random(i,true);
seg_start_time = seg_end_time;
seg_end_time = seg_end_time + random(tmin,tmax);
}
Math.floor(random(0,n)) + .5;

Is this it?

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks! Overlooked it because I was looking for “6 seconds” and it said “150 frames”

[Ron Dangus]

I’ll get back at the exporting later, cause that’s still giving me problems, but I’ve got a problem with AE too. Thanks to the help of Vince and Alex the importing from PPCS3 footage into AECS4 has worked, but vice versa doesn’t. Any clues?

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks for your response Vince,

Ow, I wasn’t clear enough, I meant exporting in Premiere Pro CS3. I checked the adobe media encoder, and found a bunch of options there. What is the best quality to export? I found 1080p as wmv, as mov, as mpg, … (didn’t find the avi, though).

Mov is completely uncompressed, so I guess that would be the best one, or is isn’t the difference with avi that big? (How do I export a 1080p avi anyways?).

[Ron Dangus]

It’s HD1080i material I recorded with a Sony HDR HC7,captured in PPCS4 and then imported as DV-pal in PPCS3.

Par is 576-704.

These are the settings: https://i44.tinypic.com/1ha6n4.jpg

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks! That did the trick.