Tim Kurkoski
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Premiere Pro 2.0 does not save your titles as an external file. The title data is stored within the project file itself. If you want to save the title independently, you can do so.
There are some options in Premiere’s preferences for cleaning up the media cache. Be aware that if you delete anything manually, Premiere will recreate the cache files for a given media file automatically, so you might end up in the same boat as far as disk space goes. (Either you’re using a lot of files or you’ve got a lot of old data in the cache from files you’re not using anymore.)
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Encore requires that your video assets be the correct dimensions and frame rates for the DVD specifications. That means 720×480 or 720×486, 29.97 (or 23.976) for NTSC. If you’re not producing at that size, you will need to convert your video to that size using another program.
If you downloaded the demo, didn’t you get Encore 2.0, not 1.5? I believe the demos do everything except allow you to burn a DVD.
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If you’re going to DVD, export from Premiere Pro as MPEG-2 for DVD. Can’t be simpler than that.
Your choice of codec should be determined by how you intend to use the video. If you’re going to DVD, use MPEG-2. If you’re going back out to your video camera, use DV-AVI. If you’re going to post your video on the web, use WMV (and/or QuickTime).
When in doubt use the codec your original footage is in. (Usually this is DV-AVI.)
Indeo and Cinepak are ancient, don’t bother with them.
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Animation > Keyframe Assistants > Sequence Layers
AE Pro only.
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This thread may be of interest:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=875360&pview=t#head -
File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files.
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A garbage matte is usually the easiest way.
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If your TGA files are numbered sequentially, AE can import them as an image sequence, which it will treat the same as a movie file. In the import dialog, choose the first file, then check the Numbered Sequence option in the lower-left.
By the way, you can preserve your alpha channel with a QuickTime file. You have to use a codec that supports alpha, such as the Animation codec.
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There is a preference for this, and in AE7 it is turned on by default. In the General preferences, uncheck the “Create Layers at Composition Start Time” option.
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Alpha is kind of automatic in AE. There are many different ways of making parts of your layer transparent, so it really depends on what you want to do with the layer. You can:
* Draw a mask
* Use a blending mode
* Use a track matte
* Use a keying effectYou can look up any of those in the help files. But if you want to be more specific as to what you want to do with your layer, I’m sure we can give you a more specific answer.