[Tim Kolb]

[Steven L. Gotz] “No need to erase. Just select the color with the magic wand tool, and then hit the delete key. But to do that, it can not be the background, as I understand it. So you copy the background to a new layer and then delete the background.”

Actually it’s even easier than that.

Simply double click on the background layer in the layer palette and the dialogue will pop up with the designation as “Layer 0″… hit “OK” and wa-la, it’s no longer the background and you can create an alpha channel where you delete the background color.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

At the moment, the internal engine of PPro is only 8 bit. You can put in 10 bit footage but anything that PPro has to “touch” (transitions and effects requiring re-rendering) is constrained to 8 bit.

CineForm’s Prospect system actually replaces the principle “engine” running in PPro with their own 10 bit engine, but even then once you add a PPro effect (as opposed to a Cineform transition or effect), you are once again, rendering through an 8 bit engine.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Have you tried this software fix?

https://www.mainconcept.com/adobemedia/downloads.html

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

I found Norton’s to be really invasive myself…

Panda Antivirus is what I use…same basic price as everyone else and daily updates…and I edit all day long without having to shut it off…actually I install/uninstall software relatively often as well and I never shut it off…

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

[Marcelo Lewin] “I love stories like that! Good for you! Hey, that movie that is out now, Dust To Glory, I read a white paper that it was edited in Premiere Pro 1.5….It’s not Cold Mountain, but heck!”

Cold Mountain was offlined on FCP…Dust to Glory was ONLINED on Premiere Pro…

Worth noting…

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

I think Total Training uses a pretty sophisticated hardware scan converter. It takes some muscle to do that sort of raster conversion.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Adobe usually doesn’t start the promotional process until the development process is pretty much complete. It prevents the “vaporware” syndrome many of us experienced in the early 90’s…

I would be surprised if we saw something before fall. Now that all the apps are working together like they do with copy/paste, etc., I’m sure that development takes a bit longer.

I wouldn’t look for Adobe to stay in the wings when it comes to features like multi-cam… PPro has been competing rather aptly with it’s software contemporaries and I suspect that Adobe has no intention of dropping back now.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

My experience agrees with David…

I’ve used Camtasia with spectacular results when I capture the screen at 1024×768 and edit it with a project setting that has a 1024×768 framesize (I use uncompressed as the codec setting for speed…) then when I’m done, I render out back to the Camtasia codec or I use Windows Media Encoder and set the output frame size to 1024×768.

When you scale computer interface captures, they end up getting squishy in a hurry…keeping them at their native resolution is key to maintaining image quality.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Hmmm…

Tough one. Maybe a compromise? 10 projects with 5 sequences?

I think 50 of either would be cumbersome to say the least…

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

The HDV Connect from Convergent Design is just about here. That would give you an excellent array of choices for I/O in addition to a dual-head display card. (or you could go triple head-desktop).

I also agree that the 540 is a decent solution as well, particularly where HD is involved.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net