Steve Brame
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The resolution of encoded video is governed primarily by the bitrate that the video is encoded to. The lower the bitrate, the more blurred the picture. The two authoring applications you have will make an attempt, if left to their own, to encode the video to an acceptable resolution. Since I’m not on a Mac, I can only speak to Encore, and I’ve always found it’s encodes very conservative. Therefore, I tend to encode to DVD specs of my own in Adobe Media Encoder or Squeeze.
Having said that, I have also seen many instances where people would do a side by side comparison of their HD project to the DVD’s video. Such a comparison will always make the DVD look horrible, as the HD video is being downsized to SD, and quite possibly at a lower than necessary bitrate.
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This would absolutely solve the issue. However, I submitted this feature request more than a year ago, and of course, it’s not been implemented. Not sure if they use a quantitative measurement system for implementing such features or not. Perhaps we’re the only two who have done so.
Sorry…was just watching blooper reels from The Big Bang Theory.
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I know what you mean. I actually had no idea they were called ‘streaklets’. I just knew that I’d seen some presets and demos of Particular that had them, so I opened Particular, and whaddya know, a particle called ‘Streaklet’. I’ve personally never used it before, but this thread, plus as you have pointed out, they’re very popular, makes me want to.
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One of Premiere’s recent claims to fame is the ability to edit smoothly with most professional formats, AVCHD in particular since that’s a fairly common format in the solid state world. However, in the real world many have found the need to transcode to an intermediate. On the paid side, Cineform is very popular. If you want to stay free, Avid DNxHD, is also a good choice, and the codec is a free download from their site.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
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Sorry…was getting past my bedtime. Didn’t know that you owned Particular, so I was hoping that my post would send you to Red Giant’s site and watch their demos there, which clearly show examples of streaklets. I’m also reluctant to discuss specific products here, because if they aren’t active advertisers on the COW, my posts have sometimes been blocked.
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Take a look at Trapcode Particular by Red Giant Software.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
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I just tried with a clip, and it works as expected. Perhaps you could post a short representative clip or frame for us to try just to rule out it being something isolated to your machine.
Generally when you post a problem, and get no answers, then it’s likely no one else is experiencing that problem, or does not use the tool that you are referring to.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
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I understand drop-frame, but I never noticed it affecting the sequence timecode before. I thought it was just a factor of the clip’s timecode.
Wow…learn something new every day.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
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Totally agree with Chris. Do NOT develop the plan for this shoot in your head, and then shoot, expecting it to work as you planned. I’ve seen shoots like this take days of trial. At best you could have a editing machine on location to check things out as you shoot. At worst you might have to shoot, then run back to the editing bay. Hopefully you can have a rough mock-up of your 3D maze walls to work with. If not, you’ll have to rely heavily on your imagination.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
I learned editing in a professional capacity on Avid. Mind you, it was the first iterations of Media Composer, and Avid has made some headway into the FCP/Premiere editing style. After years of Avid, I switched to Premiere when they offered the initial CS package. I had previously used Premiere Pro 4.5, and wasn’t very thrilled. After several months of editing on Premiere Pro CS, I had to go back into and old Avid project for some changes. I swear it was like I was chiseling the edits in stone with a sharp rock. I had to have the manual open at all times to look up the simplest commands. With Premiere Pro CS series, it’s never been like that. It seems to just feel right.
Perfect? Absolutely not. But consider this – you can’t make Avid behave like Premiere, but you can definitely make Premiere behave like Avid.
As far as media management, I always found it necessary to use a third party solution with Avid Media Composer. I think it says a lot that there actually ARE third party solutions. Apparently I’m not the only one who found the built-in solution lacking. Avid’s built-in MM solution just didn’t work for me – perhaps it’s an intelligence level thing.
But truly, if you’re planing on working in or for Hollywood at all, you definitely need to have Avid skills in your toolkit.
Avid offers a free trial of Media Composer. Give it a try and see for yourself!
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions