[Steve Roberts]

Hi Adrian,

I think this can be easily done using a clip mask. I’d be reading up on how to do mask animation under Event Pan / Crop. This is where you can create a mask which is based around a bezier curve that can be fully animated. You could also use the Defocus plugin to blur the vision as well.

Sorry for the short answer but it’s something that comes down to being able to animated well.

Hope this helps.

Steve R.

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[Steve Roberts]

SOLVED it. Thanks.

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[Steve Roberts]

Hi Stephen,

Interestingly the system has now gone back to it’s glitchy best !

I was wondering myself about the VGA output. My video card has an output for DVI and the other monitor is on a VGA output. Would I be better off getting something with 2 x DVI outputs ?

Cheers,

Steve R.

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Well I have to report that for some reason it now works fine.

I have my suspicions about the USB external drives on my machine. I have 3 of them which are usually on and the machine had some small issues in discovering them. Then I was accessing a large AVI from one of them which caused a BSOD.

Luckily I already have a plan to rid myself of these drives with a large RAID upgrade.

Conclusion: USB drivers were somehow interfering with the video / audio cards.

Hope this helps someone else sometime.

Steve R.

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[Steve Roberts]

Hi Nigel,

Well the system had an update along with the Windows 7.

16G RAM, Core2 Quad Core Q9550, RAID data drive (motherboard based).

I had no problem doing this under Windows XP SP3 with 4G of RAM.

Windows media player has no problem playing these files off disc. In fact I know that I can play 720P uncompressed AVI files off it without a glitch ??

What has changed is the OS and the sound card. I updated the sound card as my old Lynx Audio card had no Windows 7 drivers.

As I said before it plays fine in the Video Preview window.

One thing that I have noticed is that when playing just a single track of 720P video in a 720P project it appears to need 41% of the computers power with all the cores at the same level ? No effects ? Stop the video and the CPU goes down to 0-1% ??? Maybe it’s the Lagarith CODEC ?

I’ll do a few checks on things like the CODEC.

Cheers,

Steve R.

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[Steve Roberts]

Thanks for the reply Scott,

The video runs 100% perfectly without the “Windows Second Display” but the second I hit the button it starts to glitch ???

One thing I did try based on your suggestions is I changed the audio over to the motherboards audio card and it worked much better.

I do have the latest drivers for the RME running. This may be a job for RME to sort out.

Thanks,

Steve R.

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[Steve Roberts]

Sorry for not reading John – a little tired.

Thanks for the confirmation.

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[Steve Roberts]

Thanks for the great info John.

But, an interesting point with regards to the studio rgb conversion. I should have mentioned that my footage is actually sequenced stills (timelapse) from various digital cameras. Does it still apply that I DONT need to do the computer to studio rgb conversion.

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[Steve Roberts]

Ahh I can answer these questions.

Hi Kelly,

I’m presuming that you’re talking about the compressor plugin ?

The Threshold is where the compressor starts to compress the material. Now the amount of compression is usually called Ratio but within this plugin it’s amount. Say if you set it to 3 then what you get out is a 3rd of what you put in after the audio has hit the threshold. Make sense ?

Thus using the input gain to amplify your audio to push it into the threshold makes quiet material louder and everything over the threshold not as loud – compressed.

Be careful though it’s not a perfect effect and it will start to distort if you push things too much.

As for the output that’s simply a level output control back to the buss.

The attack and release control the speed at which the compressor reacts when the signal hits that threshold. Attack is a curve that delays the reaction and release is how long the compression stays once the signal has gone below the threshold. Example – if you set the attack and release at zero and your amount (ratio) to a high number say 10 you create a limiter which essential stops everything that hits the threshold from going over the threshold. But it will distort.

Compressor are complicated things to get working.

Other please comment as I may have missed something.

Good luck !

Steve R.

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[Steve Roberts]

Ahh that’s a very good point thanks Steve.

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