Tim Kurkoski
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Canopus makes good ones, but is not that cheap. The Pyro series from ADS has an OK reputation, and tends to be less expensive.
You can still capture using your existing card and another application and import your files into Premiere. However, I would recommend you double-check the card or application’s capture settings. You’ll get the best results from Premiere if you capture as an AVI file, preferably using the DV codec (aka, DV-AVI).
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What card do you have, and what video device are you trying to capture from?
For a video capture card to work with Premiere, the manufacturer of the card needs to provide plug-ins for Premiere, so that Premiere knows the card is there and how to talk to it. If you’re not using one of those cards, and there’s only a few out there (go to the Premiere Pro page on Adobe.com for a link to cards that it supports), it just plain won’t work.
An opinion (based on what I suspect you’re using) – Cheap video capture cards really aren’t worth the hassle. You’re better off using an analog-DV converter, which is a little box with analog inputs and plugs into the Firewire port on your computer. Because it outputs a DV signal, Premiere can capture it natively (without the need for extra drivers).
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Right-click on the clips. There’s an option called (sorry, don’t have Premiere open at the moment) Locate Footage or Link Files, or something of that nature.
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Sure. Create a new video track above all your other tracks. Create the bars in the titler, or better yet use Photoshop- save as a PSD file to make sure you get alpha for the center section. Then drop the bars into the new track and stretch it across your whole timeline.
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There’s no automated way I could find to do this. You could definitely write a script for it. Wouldn’t have to be a extensive script- just something that checks the dimensions and closes the image if it’s too small. Bundle that in at the top of your action, run the batch, and bingo.
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Look up “Wiggler” in the help files. More specifically, you can create a text animator that wiggles.
Also, there should be some text presets you can apply to achieve the effect, or if nothing else study how they work so you can replicate the effect to your own text.
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Many of the presets are based on keyframes that are at specific time positions. You probably just need to move and/or copy/paste the keyframes to extend the animation. Tip – Highlight the layer and press the U key to see all keyframed properties.
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Photoshop CS2 has preset document sizes that match common video frame sizes and pixel aspect ratios, and they include guides that match the video safe margins.
You can also created new guides on an existing document by using View > New Guide, and entering a percentage value. The standard sizes for safe guides are 10% and 20%. (For Photoshop, since you’ll have to create guides for each side and each orientation, that’s 8 guides total: 10% horiz. and vert., 20% h. and v., 80% h. and v., and 90% h. and v.)
For your existing documents, your best best is to drag your images into a new one with the correct frame size and guides, then scale and adjust as necessary. Better yet, place your image as a Smart Object so you can scale and transform at will.
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The Creating Motion Graphics books by the Meyers are the best books on AE money can buy, in my opinion. While they’re not the easiest read, you will learn the program in depth and with unparalelled detail.
Angie Taylor’s books are good as well. For a book to learn by examples, you should check out Mark Christiansen’s “After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques”.
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I don’t think iTunes will take an AVI. Probably has to be a QuickTime file.