Steven L. gotz
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If it were my camera, I would create a track matte with white pixels where the problem pixels are and black everywhere else. Make a copy of the clip, blur it a bit, move it one pixel to the left or right and apply the track matte. The slightly blured pixels to the left or right are what show instead of the dead pixels.
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In the Image Control folder you will find Black and White. Apply that to the footage first.
In the Adjust folder, apply the Color Balance effect and change the Midtone Blue Balance to a negative 50. Some people also like to add a +15 to the Midtone Red Balance.
Add a Gaussian Blur of about 10 or less. Old photos are blurry.
If you want to apply some noise, try using trick shown here:
https://www.stevengotz.com/filmgrain.htm
These instructions (modified a little) were taken from Jeff Schell’s book on Premiere Pro 2.0 from Lynda.com
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Previewing and editing are two different things.
As I said before, MPEG4 is the wrong choice. DV AVI is the best choice. What are you capturing the files with? Does it have the ability to capture as Type2 DV AVI?
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He is a kid. He doesn’t seem to have a HDV camera, nor the money to get a HD DVD player.
Be patient. Maybe Dad will get one to watch a movie he really likes that has been rereleased as HD.
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You can still get an HD image on to a PC. Don’t give up completely. Just use Windows Media.
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Those DVD cameras are for people who never edit. I talk to a lot of them at Disney World. I quite often ask people if they ever edit their videos. The vast majority say no. They just play them on the TV. Or, they just take out the DVD and play it. They don’t really even understand why I would ask. Who edits? That is why they bought the DVD camera in the first place.
When I find the occasional person who edits, I hand out my card, with my web site address. It leads to interesting conversations. Which, since I now live in Florida and go to Epcot for concerts almost weekly, I look forward to. That is kind of the point for me now. To go to the parks and talk to people. It’s fun.
I like giving out some information that points out parts of the parks that are pertinent to their family type and ages. And my wife and I enjoy finding people who are taking pictures of their spouse and children so we can offer to take a group picture. It is often the only picture they get with everyone in the shot. My wife gets really bossy and tells them where to put their hands, and how to stand. She says she wants it to be the picture for next season’s Christmas card. Most people are thrilled to take direction.
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There is no way to get the HD on to a regular DVD for a regular DVD player.
There are DVD players that can play WMV-HD files. I own one of those.
If you want to export to one of the new HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disks, that is a different issue.
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Premiere Pro is not designed to edit MPEG4 video. Get the source clips from the camera as DV AVI instead.
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There are a few ways. If you just want a solid color, use Clip instead of Crop. You can choose the fill color.
Otherwise, put the clip in a new sequence on track two, crop it, and put your border on track one. It can be a texture or whatever you want. Then use that sequence like a clip, nesting it in other sequences.
Or, you can put the border over the clip if you made it in the titler or in Photoshop so that it has an alpha channel in the center. I have a few frames on my web site – https://www.stevengotz.com/templates.htm
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I don’t think I have used the titler for anything since I got Dynamic Link to work. Everything moves, at least a little, so everything is done in After Effects. Even lower thirds which I used to do in the titler are not brought on to the screen using text animation.
Steven
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