Steve Brame
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I couldn’t agree more, Lance. I’ve used Magic Bullet Looks for a while, and yes, for grading, although I don’t edit Hollywood level movies. I’ve been afraid to mention using Looks for color for fear of being attacked by purists. Just kidding….sorta.
For almost a year I used Looks by merely applying the included presets, never experimenting with the myriad of controls that the plugin comes with. Now, with Looks 2 they have added more of the control found in their grading plugin – Colorista.
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I believe that we’ve had the same problem for over a year without solution. Try this…
Load a clip into the Source Monitor
Switch to the Timeline and play it for a second or two.
Switch back to the Source Monitor and see if it will play now.If so, you have the same issue we’ve had. We’re hoping that upgrading to CS5.5 or whatever’s next will take care of it.
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We love Red Giant’s line. Unfortunately, we mostly produce fairly stodgy corporate video, so we don’t get to use them often, save for Magic Bullet Looks. But we’ve got ’em if we need ’em.
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Placing DV footage in a 1080P timeline, degradation is to be expected, especially if you are expanding the DV clips to fill the 1080 frame. Enlarging pixelates. How much you enlarge greatly affects the level of pixelation.
There are plugins from both Red Giant and Boris that will ‘up-rez’ an SD clip to HD, and do it fairly nicely, considering.
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Actually, I think a step was left out. Open the PDF in Illustrator, and save as an Illustrator (AI) file. That will definitely import into Premiere.
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The ‘Save as Adobe PDF’ method does seem to be the best, short of purchasing Camtasia and going that route. In your previous post you stated that you couldn’t locate the saved PDF. When you choose ‘Save as Adobe PDF’, you are presented with a dialog box asking where to save the PDF. Look in the folder where you tell PPT to save to, and it should be there. To make things easier, save it to your Desktop.
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Shooting with Panasonic HMC-150’s, we’ve had the same problem for a few years, mainly when neding to relink media after reactivating an archived project, and PPro tells you to locate ‘00032.mts’, and you have 5 of them in different folders from different cameras of days. We’ve noticed that if you pick the wrong ‘00032.mts’ file, PPro will yell at you, saying that there is a mismatch, basically letting you know that it isn’t the correct one.
That being said, we’ve also renamed files in a folder and were able to import without any issues.
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At any rate, Dave’s right. Aharon Rabinowitz’ tutorial on creating super-tight junk masks is one of the most useful tutorials I’ve ever seen. It makes keying a lot less of a headache.
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First, find out who’s idea it was to use pink tape, and kill them.
Someone may have a bright idea on how to handle this, but I’ll bet that roto’ing is gonna be the best.
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I’m surprised that they look good at all. PowerPoint exported slides have always been known to, well, suck to be honest. PowerPoint has never exported with anti-aliasing, so images tend to have blocky edges, particularly text. In fact, there is a PowerPoint plug-in from PPTools that allows for image export with much more resolution, and I believe some anti-aliasing of text. You can also use SnagIt, from the same folk that make Camtasia, which also adds a plugin to PowerPoint to let you capture slides in higher resolution.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions