Steve Roberts
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I guess you want to do two roll edits simultaneously?
Anyway, the answer is no. You can only drag one in/out point at a time, or set one at a time using the alt-[ or alt-] shortcuts. However, you can trim a bunch of selected layers to the same point by using one of the shortcuts … if that helps.
Are you finding that AE is a very slow editor? 🙂
Steve
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Is it really vector artwork, and not a raster EPS or AI?
If it is really a vector file, can you send the file to ads (at) reidroberts (dot) com?
(Please do not type this address again in another post on the COW.)Steve
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The layers must have their 3D boxes checked, then given slightly different Z-positions. It’s in the manual.
BTW, it’s good practice to make your own camera layer, not to use AE’s default camera … which can’t be animated and doesn’t show up in the timeline.
Steve
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If you get the warning, it means that the effect will render, but you might get a “banding” effect instead of smooth transitions between colours.
Steve
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[Jeff Dobrow] “You keep referring to this as a 2 hour long piece?? Are you planning on actually editing a 2 hour long piece in After Effects.”
Heh … good catch, Jeff.
b_, as Jeff suggests, AE is an awful editor, because it’s very slow. It has to render every frame, and its workflow is not designed for editing long-form. After you rip, assemble the piece in a non-linear editing app for cuts and timing, then render/export the clips that need to be treated in AE. Do the magic, then render them back to the NLE and print to tape or whatever.
Jeff is also right regarding compression — my bad for not mentioning it. Look at the DVD footage carefully, making notes as to what has to be affected in AE. Rip the AE stuff to the animation codec for highest quality, but rip the other stuff to something like Photo-JPEG to save space and allow real-time playback (for speed of workflow) in your NLE.
You’ll need high quality for the AE stuff, since it gets rendered and recompressed as it passes from app to app. However, for the material that will not be affected in AE and will only be recompressed once, I’ve found PJPEG to be adequate when ripping shots that weren’t pristine to begin with. My assumption? 🙂
Does that help?
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I don’t have access to some D1 files (720×486) in PJPEG, but a 640×480 :30 comes in at 65 MB, which might be 150 MB/minute for your situation. 6 hours would be 54 GB if I’m not mistaken.
Avoid uncompressed. I haven’t checked the data rate on Animation codec, but it would be in between.
1. As I said: hook up with a post house. Eat the cost if it’s not in the budget. When I did my first broadcast spots, that’s what I did. You can’t afford to screw up, so hire a pro. You edit, you design, then you render to a digital file on portable hard drive or DVD-R. Then you give that to the post house, then they bring it into their system, check it on the scopes, lay down bars and tone, add a countdown, and lay it off to BetaSP or Digibeta.
2. There are a number of DVD-ripping apps out there for Win. DVDXcopy is one, but it costs money. Try Googling DVD, rip, Quicktime, and checking the COW DVD forum, and searching the COW.
I can’t stress this enough: hire a post house.
Steve
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1. I’ve used MPEG StreamClip to convert vids from DVD to Quicktime in the Photo-JPEG codec. Coverting to Animation codec would give higher quality, but also larger file sizes. It depends on how much stuff you have. Do a test, find its file size, then multiply by the amount of video you have to get an estimate of the amount of disk space required.
2. Regular modern-day hard drives can play back P-JPEG in real time if they’re not too full and fragmented. As for size, see above to get an estimate.
3. It all depends on the needs of the technical person receiving your material. You say your material is going to the station, so call them and find out what format they want: Beta SP, Digibeta, DV? Hook up with a post house that has the gear to make sure your transfer to tape goes smoothly. Ask the editor there what format he/she wants. Avid? Animation codec? TGA files? On a portable hard drive, CD or DVD? Frame size? Ask the editor receiving your stuff. Always.
In other words, don’t be afraid to ask the people involved after you in the pipeline. I ask all the time, and make no assumptions. Some houses are Avid, some are FCP, some are Media 100.
As I said, hook up with a post house. You don’t want the station sending back your footage because it’s not properly prepared (“safe”) for broadcast.
Steve
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The extra one may lie in the AE package on OSX. Ctrl-click on the AE app’s icon in the applications folder, then choose “show package contents”. The extra plug should be in the MacOS folder therein, in a “Plug-ins” folder.
Tricky, eh?
SR
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Stab in the dark: open the MPEG file in Quicktime Player, and export it to WAV or AIFF from there. Import that audio file into the comp, and use it as the audio layer in your comp.
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