[Tim Vanbrackle]

Awesome Angelo thanks

[Tim Vanbrackle]

I’m looking to understand all the formats. I was surprised that i couldn’t find a comprehensive tutorial on the formats.

I’m working in 32 bit color space using After Effects/ Premiere 1920 X 1080 footage.
I want to upload it to the web, my own site (I have to set up), plus make dvds. With the huge amount of time it takes to render out, i just want to be familiar with all the formats and what they do.

Thanks Again for your info!

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Perfect information Angelo, thanks so much. Explained a lot of information that i didn’t understand.

While your on a roll, do you know of a tutorial on exporting formats…i still get confused on what to export to, the adobe breakdown talks more about technical.. I’m really just looking for a spreadsheet type that says:
format….good for this…..bad for this…..here are the pros….here are the cons….etc

thanks again for your help, very much appreciated,
Tim

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Stephen i really appreciate your help, but I just think i have to be missing something, unless this is a Mecca that everyone is seeking to do.

I have about 100 green screen clips, that i will probably scatter all over a project into around 600 clips. Each lighting was different so of course keying will be different on each of the 100 setups. when i scatter them all over the project i will have to track down each clip to copy and paste the attributes, which could take…a long time. I wanted the keying to be as simple and possible, so i did this first before i chopped them up and and scattered them.

Now i have to:
hunt and peck the clips
or wait 30 hours for a render
or suffer through watching my computer churn out one clip after another.

I was hoping for another, thanks for the info.. i learned a valuable lesson

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Thanks stephen I knew i screwed this up. I am using all the green screen clips just not the whole clip. i’m using 7 seconds of it here, 12 seconds there, and my thinking was it would be easier to do all the keying and masking on one big clip rather than splitting it up into different clips all over the project and then exporting the project back to AE and searching through all the clips in the project (which look alike) to match up the same green screen clips to copy and paste attributes through multiple layers.

Thanks again

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Thanks Stephen, i’ve still got footage to shoot and add so i don’t know what i will need.. I really just want all the grunt work out of the way now, i hate hate hate hate hate sitting in front of my computer watching grass grow, i seriously don’t see how people can do this.. plus ive already dynamically linked the project which i guess i cant undo

I really just want to see my footage playing at normal time in premiere, i don’t care what it looks like, so i can cut it and edit it creatively and efficiently, i also just tried lowering resolution playback..didn’t work

thanks for your help

[Tim Vanbrackle]

I know an adjustment layer is what i was going for just to pull i grade i create in color finesse over to premiere so i can just apply it and remove it.. seems like a no brainer. Someone is probably working on it thanks for the info!

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Greg I can not begin to thank you enough for taking the time to tell me what you did to fix it.

I did just what you said and it worked like a charm: I downloaded Quicktime 7, and “washed” about 700 files through it and now all the audio works perfectly. (I’m really glad i had the unocorrupted back ups.

I spent the last week on the phone with Adobe who told me, it wasn’t their fault, again wasn’t looking for fault, just direction. Also I looked all over the internet and you were the one with the answer.

Seriously I can’t tell you how much time you saved me!! I owe you big time!!!

I am glad that it’s fixed, but I plan on shooting more with the zoom and premiere, and don’t want to go through this again. Would you recommend just running them through quicktime each time? is this a problem with these two programs? what happened anyway.

Again I can not thank you enough, i was working on that project for six months and though i was going to have to start from scratch!!! thanks for being there!

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Again thanks for your help Todd Replacing footage with itself is clever. The problem is that I did not change the file names when I downloaded them from the zoom- they are still called mono wav 1 ,2,3 etc. My sound guy did nickname them in premiere so it would still be a long process
Funny you should ask about the back ups. I have time machine and that was unable to fulfill a backup last night. After spending four hours today at apple we found it was due to the drive being filled up. There were only 2 backups in there. Yesterday and today
I was so proud of my system before today. I have 8 gigs of memory, 27 inch iMac, external drive for the video files, and a dedicated external drive for time machine
I can’t help but think the only 2 issues with that computer happened in the same day.
It’s such a specific problem- only the zoom files-wav files- i can’t believe that this isn’t an easy fix I can’t be the o ly person in history to come across this. I do appreciate your thinking of the replace footage option. It’s going to be that kind of thinking to figure this one out. Here’s hoping for a positive call from adobe. though i thought they would have called today. Thanks again!- (wow this is long sorry)

[Tim Vanbrackle]

Thanks for responding Todd. The files play fine outside premiere. It’s premiere cs5. It’s totally up to date. There is no option to delink them, the files are there, they just don’t play. I’ve worked and cut the video up for the past 6 months and to re import them and do the work all over again will take a few weeks. Plus now I’m just paranoid that it will happen again. I’m stuck. The only thing I’ve done is turned it off and on and disconnected and reconnected the drives and called adobe. They still haven’t called me back