Tim Kurkoski
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AE doesn’t use video overlay to my knowledge. Any version. You’ll need a plug-in for the card to make it work with its TV out. I thought the Parhelia had a plug-in for AE?
FireWire is really not that expensive of a solution. You can get the ADS Pyro converter for less than $150. Myself, I prefer the Canopus devices which are more expensive, but they’ve brought out some new ones that are a little cheaper.
And using a DV camera is a fine solution. There’s no difference between it’s output and that of a converter (or a deck).
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Yes and no. The TV out on that board isn’t like the direct FireWire output that video applications use. What that card does is provide TV output of the video overlay channel. Anything the video apps feed into the overlay channel (for example, Premiere’s monitor window) the card will put on the TV.
I don’t know if AE uses the overlay channel to begin with. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, but you still could try playing with the card’s overlay settings and see if you can get any results. Regardless, you’re better off using the FireWire output. It’s native to AE, it’s the one actually feeding the video out, not going through 2 or 3 layers of DirectX and drivers like what happens with your video card.
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Have you tried using a different format, or different settings? Have you tried rendering a different comp?
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It’s still the MC encoder. No batch encoding in PP 2.0, and you can’t run it outside of the app, but AE uses the same encoder and you can import your projects into AE and push them through the render queue. (The projects don’t import perfectly because AE doesn’t support some of Premiere’s features, but it’s improved from the last version.)
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Are you getting an error message, or what exactly happens? When you say rendering, are you rendering a RAM preview or out to a file? If to a file, what format and settings are you using?
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I should clarify my comment about cameras. All DV cameras should accept the signal from AE and at least show it on the LCD, but not all will pass along that signal to a TV hooked up to the camera’s A/V ports. Some that will may require you change a setting in the camera’s menus, or that you don’t have a tape in the camera.
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Just hook up a DV converter, deck, or camera (caveat: not all cameras will do this) to your FireWire, then go to AE’s preferences and turn on the video preview.
This is a relatively recent feature (6.0?) on the Windows side, but the Mac has had it for a couple of versions longer. In other words, if you don’t see the video preview options in th preferences, you need to upgrade.
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Ideas:
– Trash AE prefs.
– Reinstall AE.
– Troubleshoot fonts. By this I mean pulling out fonts from your fonts folder. Often one corrupt font can kill a whole app. -
Afraid not. Premiere 6 and earlier had a batch processing feature, but it was lost when the program was rebuilt to Premiere Pro. A pity.
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Duh… pre-comping. Where’s my brain at this week?