Tim Kurkoski
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Premiere’s not the ideal program for this. It can be done as below, but After Effects is a much better program for this.
You could shoot a small group of people in front of a greenscreen. Shoot them several times, in different positions (mark out some areas on the floor). After capturing the footage, take out the greenscreen and stack the clips to assemble your army. Make sure to keep track of how the groups are standing in front of each other when you shoot so that when you assemble the shots together you don’t get any weird overlaps.
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There is a download for this that will fix it. You can get the link from Adobe’s web site:
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The duration for a motion menu is the Properties window, when you have the menu selected (not one of it’s elements; click on the menu in the project).
How was the thumbnail created? Was it created by linking a video button to a timeline? If so, the duration of the thumbnail is going to be the same as the whole menu. If your menu is animated (or has audio), the duration of the whole menu will determine how long the thumbnail will last, too.
If you created the thumbnail manually, say with a video background element, you just need to set the duration of the menu. It should automatically be the same length as your video file, but it sounds like you may still need to tweak that setting.
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mattiaz is correct- AE does not play footage the same way editing apps do. MPEG data is particularly cumbersome for it.
You should always RAM preview when you’re having playback issues. AE will be slow with MPEG regardless, but you can optimize the playback and your memory usage (tweak the prefs, lower the resolution and zoom, etc.) that can help to an extent.
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No. QT Pro doesn’t change how QT reads files, it only changes what options you have available inside the QT Player. (Ability to export/convert files, Save files from the player embedded in web page, etc.)
Have you checked Apple’s site for info on the problem? It’s possible the HDV codec they’re using doesn’t play well on Windows yet, or there could be a video card interaction issue.
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I totally disagree with you. I love the new interface. To each his own.
But if you want the tools to float around with the others, you can do that too. You just have to click on the little grabber dots on the far left side and drag it out and away.
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Green chroma is not one specific color value. Once you project your slide, the exact color won’t stay consistent anyway. The strength of the projection bulb and lighting conditions in the room (not to mention the color response of the camera you’re shooting with) will change the resulting color you’ll use for keying.
(I’m assuming that you’re asking this because you are reshooting what will appear in front of the slide and will key it then. Your post was a little light on the full details of your workflow.)
What’s important for color keying is that your color is bright, consistent, and bleeds as little as possible onto your subject.
Any good chroma keyer can pick up on any color value and tweak it’s output so that it picks up a range of colors around that value. You could start with green, blue, red, muave, chartruse, aquamarine, or burnt sienna. Just make sure your subject doesn’t share any colors with what you’re keying.
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Video (graphics) cards won’t help with rendering. For Premiere’s purpose, any reasonably powerful and recently produced card should work fine. (Personally, I’m favoring Nvidia these days, something in the 6000 series generally. Check sites like TomsHardware.com and SharkyExtreme.com for reviews on performance.) Other programs like After Effects and Photoshop are a bit pickier.
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Craig- Are you using a capture card? A limit could be enforced there.
Premiere does not enforce a limit on the size of captured files. Not 6.5, not Premiere Pro 2.0. If your drives are already NTFS, and you’re not using a capture card, I’m not sure what else to say. Something else is interfering.
That something else could be a bad codec. If you’ve been installing codecs or other video editing apps, you might want to start uninstalling things.
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Try upping to QT 7.0.4. I’ve seen a few AE issues go away with that.