Steve Roberts
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[Ian Collister] “…but it was also suggested to me that using a compressed file might cause just as much trouble as i would have to uncompress it as it was read.”
In general, that’s untrue. These codecs have a decent data rate for editing, from what I’ve seen & heard:
DV 25/50/100 (MiniDV, DVCPRO50, DVCPROHD)
Photo-JPEG (try 89-90% quality)
Motion-JPEG A/B (not MPEG)
Hardware codecs (Decklink, Matrox, Kona, Avid, etc.)
Uncompressed 8-bit
Apple Intermediate Codec (never used it)
Apple ProRes (its AE issues might be fixed)There may be others.
By the way, don’t edit in AE. It’s a royal pain.
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Re:Flex is a nice morphing plugin for AE.
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I’ve found that decompressing isn’t a big deal with today’s processors.
If a video has a data rate that is too high for your hard drive to play back smoothly, it will play back in a jerky manner or drop frames … in an NLE. This (fast disc access) is not as crucial with AE, since it has to render everything. NLEs have to read from disc quickly, so to get scrubbing or smooth playback, you need to lower the data rate of the clips/sequences/timelines or get faster Hard Drives or a RAID.
My recent MacPro OEM drives will play back “8-bit uncompressed” as well as Photo-JPEG, KONA, and flavours of DV, of course. Huffy might be fine on your system, but for sure, you won’t be able to play back uncomressed (“none”) AVIs without a RAID system.
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Hmph. Yes it does, but not from the COW page. Bloody computers.
Anyway … here’s my take on it:
– three models were shot separately on greenscreen
– no models were on the set
– camera shake was added in post
– models were choreographed: same moves for each
– morphing between models in post (when they face camera) -
Just checking — why do you need new graphics cards? For which apps?
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Link doesn’t work.
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Check the FAQ above the posts for a tutorial by Jayse Hansen.
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MPEGStreamclip on Mac is a good option for converting (not just renaming) VOB files.
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Unlike an NLE, AE has to render everything. You shouldn’t be able to scrub through footage on AE unless it has been rendered, where you see a green bar in the timeline. Do a RAM preview, then scrub through the footage.
Or is there another problem?
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Try Aquent. Maybe — they might be print + web only.