Scott Roberts
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Several ways – – first, for best results, use the pen tool to create a mask. second way, magic wand (most likely you’ll have to refine the edge of the selection before making your mask – make sure after selecting the white area that you invert your mask, give it a slight feather (.5px) then create the layer mask.
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you might try after effects for stabilizing footage – more suited for it and really fast. Tutorial: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/stabilize_shaky_footage/
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Of course it will work as a standalone product. It is not dependent on any other application. Example – may who use Final Cut Pro use After Effects to do VFX.
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I’d use Premiere Pro. You can bring still images into Premiere Pro at a defined duration, and for certain ones you want to pause longer you can simply lengthen their duration. Plus you’ll have an easier time setting it to music…one thing I don’t like with After Effects is having to RAM Preview to hear audio.
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Yes, save money on an i7 sandy bridge. max out your ram though. get a video card supported by the mercury playback engine.
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Try watching this tutorial I made. https://youtu.be/GIE5_wnAmaU
It shows how to mask objects in Illustrator and teaches you basics of compound paths, etc.
Basically to cut the logo “in half”, first make it a compound path by selecting the logo and type CTRL+8 (pc) or CMD+8 (mac), or in the menu, Object – Compound Path – Make. Then create a 3pt curve going through your logo and outline that path (object – path – outline stroke) so it is no longer a stroke (it will become a solid). Next select this solid curve and your logo, and in the Pathfinder palette, click the “subtract” button (second from the top left).
Try that and let us know if this was what you were trying to accomplish.
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For an alpha channel to work, you’ll need to make a mask in photoshop, then save that mask in the channels palette by duplicating it. Then save your image as a Targa and check off “Alpha Channels” in the save dialog box.
I created a quick video tutorial: https://youtu.be/aXqLaDDXvGs
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In Photoshop, make the dimensions of a new image 720×480, 72dpi, RGB, and in the lower section, click “Advanced” and under Pixel Aspect Ratio, select D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2).
Now, that being said, sometimes you’ll get different results from different NLE’s and how they’ll handle still images. Another approach is to make your image 853×480 with a square pixel aspect ratio, or 864×480 with a square pixel aspect ratio.
Try them and see which works best for you.
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Dom,
What kind of effect are you trying to apply? You can add an adjustment layer for curves, hue, etc., that will apply to every frame of your clip.