Tim Kurkoski
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I don’t think you’ll be able to find a free program, Debbie. In order to use Dolby technology you have to license it, so there’s no freeware or shareware I know of that can produce AC3 (of course, I don’t know everything).
Premiere Pro comes with the SurCode Dolby encoder. As I said before, it’s a trial version limited to 3 uses. After that, I think the cost to unlock the encoder is something like $300, which is actually pretty darned cheap for this sort of thing.
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Not that I know of. You might want to back up any important files first. Although MS claims that you can do the conversion to an existing disk without a problem, you are making a major change to the disk and that poses a potential risk for data loss.
That being said, on other forums I’ve heard from several people who made the conversion and had zero problems.
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Yes- Photoshop can draw masks just like AE using the pen tool and vector shapes. The difference for Photoshop is that instead of having multiple masks per layer, each layer can have one layer mask, but the layer mask can be manipulated just like any other layer. You can draw on it with, create multiple shapes on it, apply blurs and other filters to it, etc. There are also clipping masks which allow you to set one layer as a mask for another layer.
Look up layer masks (aka vector masks) and clipping masks in the Photoshop help files, and play with them a little bit.
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This is a limitation of the file system used by your hard drive. The FAT32 file system is limited to maximum file sizes of just under 4 GB. If you’re running Win2k or WinXP, you can change your hard drive to use NTFS instead of FAT32. The maximum file size limit on NTFS is something in the terabytes range- hours and hours of video. I believe there’s a document on the Microsoft web site that has instructions on how to convert from FAT32 to NTFS.
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Encore numbers timelines in the order you create them. You can’t change it, apart from deleting your existing timelines and building them in the order you want them to be numbered.
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When you export the AVI file, try turning off the “optimize stills” option in the settings and see if that helps.
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Steve- You have to click on the photo in the editing area (the big photo above the playback controls) before the editing options become available.
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Can you clarify what you mean by “when I open a file it automatically
rotates the image”? How is it rotating? What are you expecting to see?If your image is a photograph that was taken in portrait mode on the camera, the camera may have set a metadata flag that tells Photoshop and other programs to automatically rotate the photo to what the camera thinks is the correct orientation.
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Let me correct myself real quick:
* If you select what you want to delete, don’t inverse it, just hit delete.
* If you select what you want to keep, inverse it as I instructed, then hit delete.
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It sounds like you’re working with multiple layers. If that’s the case, use one of the selection tools (the rectangular marquee or the lasso, for example) to make a selection around the button, or around the area of the button that you want to show through to the background. Then choose Select menu > Inverse, and then press the delete key.