[Tim Kolb]

It’s unexpected unless you want to have the matte track the key source…then it’s handy as can be…

It’s all about what you’re looking for.

You can always make the matte for the larger shot (reverse the transparency from what you might try initially) and put the “master shot” on top with the matte cutting the “hole” in it instead of using the matte to “trim” the keyed footage over the top. The put your “replacement footage” on the track underneath where it is not the matted clip and move it and scale it all you want as it shows through the hole created by tracking the matte to the base shot, which is now on top.

Not so insanely difficult, really.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Tom Daigon] “Coming from FCP I continue to master to Prores.”

I honestly have a difficult time seeing any modern facility being so behind as to not have up-to-date QT drivers to read ProRes.

Again, no matter what platform you’re on, no matter what edit system you use…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

If the destination isn’t staying up-to-date, it’s pretty tough.

Cinepak is a classic…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Wow…that is so bizarre.

Install the latest verson of QT7 and you should be good to go…

As far as I’m concerned, any freelance editor who hasn’t spent the 29.95 USD on QT Pro just to have the tool should be questioned as to what they’re thinking…no matter what edit system they use.

Unfortunately I’ve had a similar week…with shooters/formats/frame rates, sizes.

These people should be required to take a test before they can accept a professional freelance job…I can’t figure out how some of these people can make a living at this…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, as long as they have an up to date installation of QT…send ’em the ProRes.

It works fine…I’ve used it on a WXP laptop…

https://tv.adobe.com/watch/digital-video/production-premium-cs4-creating-an-event-dvd/

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Chris Jacek] ” It’s sad, but at the end of the day, I’ve always like Adobe, and I’m happy to see them and Avid pick up the baton. If either of those companies had made billions from the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, they’d probably drop their products that only make millions too.”

I came to be a Mac user because of Adobe software.

Macintosh became the go-to creative workstation in good part because of Adobe…particularly when you throw the net wider than just video production. Adobe’s primary business has been rooted in professional tools for a very long time (they make “consumer” products, but they often hadn’t achieved the apparent success of many competitors who are more focused on those consumer markets). Avid obviously started the company in the professional space, and while they do have a consumer product line these days (largely spawning from their purchase of Pinnacle), Avid still seems to consider the pro market a priority.

I tend to agree on the business assessment. If Avid or Adobe were selling an “iPad” device with “iPad” type success…nobody would question why they made a video editing application that is single-display without any “on board” support for hardware I/O, etc.

In a couple years, Apple shareholders will be praising the foresight and boldness of the move. The popularity of the iPad with a video camera and a more “pro” video editing system available for those whom can’t get enough functionality from iMovie… Hmmm…first iPad film festival? Anybody?

I don’t think that Apple would see the PR backlash they’re getting (and frankly I still have trouble believing they are surprised or overly concerned) if they hadn’t spent the last five years proclaiming the product’s (FCP) legitimacy by pointing to, and featuring the exact users they kept waiting for meaningful upgrade for years…and whose needs they apparently thought represented too small a niche to target going forward.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I believe he’s referring to the promise it will only recompress altered frames…though that is a touch vague. I have heard of this being done with MPEG2…but not MPEG4.

I suppose someone will come up with a way to do sooner or later (use a partial GOP where it’s been edited so it doesn’t alter the surrounding GOP cadence, triggering complete GOP re-ordering downstream), but since MPEG4 is using not only pixel redundancy, but also vector edge tracking and motion tracking, etc, it may take a while before we see it.

HDV is probably the main format where a large percentage of users would desire to ingest, edit, and go back to the camera format to master…I think an awful lot of folks these days are acquiring on whatever they acquire on and mastering or exporting to whatever is needed, so this request to go back to DSLR format may not have come up before…

…sounds like a feature request.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I’m quite sure there is likely a way to accomplish what you want to do…since you are very new to PPro, I’m not sure where you may have encountered issues with track mattes…or if you want the matte to move with the key source or the background plate or…?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Lou Borella] “This is really cool unless you actually want to WATCH your timeline in real time.
If there are AE clips and interviews with multiple effects etc., then EVERY computer is going to have some amount of dropped frames.”

Well, at some point, all computers will. I think the users on newer machines are finding that serious CPU core and RAM count with a CUDA card does handle far more of that than many would suspect.

But you are correct, there is no way to render multiple sequences inside PPro…and the only way to load multiple sequences into the AME queue simultaneously is from AME. (You can only send them to queue one at a time). I think the idea there is that multiple sequences are easier to load…not to mention multiple sequences that are from multiple projects (as opposed to having to open each edit project in PPro to export it separately).

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Maybe it would be a good topic for a short article here on the Cow?

In the current climate, I can’t imagine that the interest would not be heavy…

I don’t know, I guess that would be something that Tim or Ron would have to make a call on.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor