[Toby Gale]

i do, but from the intro videos i have watched all i see is commenting on footage and nothing detailing how to ‘tag’ and then build folders, do you know of any?

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studying computer animation at Bournemouth University (3rd year)
Part time DIT for RED and Arri film and commercial
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[Toby Gale]

whats the file size?
i know that canon dslr’s have a recording size limit (around 11 minutes) this very unlikely why its not working.

try a h264 codec or anyother still got the same problems.
try playing with vlc?

i have found sometimes i transcode a hd video and the bit rate is huge and my computer wont handle it even though its very powerful.

as i say i would try a different codec first. sorry not much help

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Director of new media startup company
Part time DIT
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[Toby Gale]

this might help…
> grab all the clips from the bin and drag onto a sequence timline. (they all go right next to eachover)

> while all the clips are highlighted in the sequence RMB>group.

however this might not be what you want as it seems you want them to all appear in the source monitor together? is so you might want to bypass all this and use something like mpegstream clip to transcode them all into one long avc intra.

if you are confident with the terminal or command line use something like ffmpeg to batch transcode into one. (not sure what the file size limitations there are for avc intra)

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[Toby Gale]

Zetl is a good place to start “sight sound and motion” you should be able to find this book at a library i would quote it now but lent it to my girlfriend yesterday.
https://www.amazon.com/Sight-Sound-Motion-Applied-Aesthetics/dp/0534526772

on that subject your are correct zooming can be very distracting form of motion and as with all cinematography techniques itshould be used carefully.
when i get the book back i will quote it.
Best
Louis

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Computer animation Student
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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

make a safe copy of the PP broken finalised file right click and open with a text editor. do this with a working auto save file and scan for any odd brakes in meta tags this isa long shot but might reveal a problem Perhaps caused by damaged harddisk or failed write process.
best of luck.

do you have time machine on a mac?

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Computer animation Student
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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

it depends if your footage is entirelly different (naming and file format) in that case this is difficult.

if your footage is simply offline and has been moved from its origional directory then you can reload the footage either when PP complains footage is missing when your load your project file (it will then guide you to locate the footage, and will try and load all other missing footage from the directory you chose) or find the footage in your timeline right and click “reveal iN PROJECT” OR FIND THE FOOTAGE IN YOUR PROJECT PANE THEN RIGHT CLICK AND “replace footage”

if the naming system and file format is different and you are wanting to replace clips within your project the only suggestion i can give is that a PP file is an xml format file that you can scan through and replace the meta tags for the footage you want withing a texteditor. there maybe some tool online or plugin for this. i have done this for bulk resizing clips before.

ican probly help more if i know the exact requirements. unfortunatly PP is bad for automated processes, im looking forward to a editing suite with expression and python support.

sorr

Best Louis

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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

The red line means your footage needs to pre render to be played back at an acceptable frame rate (although not fully rendered) Yellow means the footage is interpreted as not necesarry to render or it has been rendered somewhere else (i have had weird problems with a yellow render bar with After effects dynamic links)

to render the red bar away for smooth playback press enter and a window should come up to pre render the footage turning the red line to green.

if this is not working make sure you have the sequence active (either double click in the project pane the name of your sequence then press enter, or look into your timeline and pre render preferences)

hope this helps?

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Computer animation Student
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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

you could use the ultra key feature found in premiere pro, effects>keying>ultraKey
use the colour selector to select the sky.

i like ultra key because it has alot of options for poor keying material however it usually works it out by itself.

for a quick fix you could colour grade the sae footage so they sky is the colour you want and put the old clip on the top layer with ultra key revealing the colour corrected sky.

not exactly elegant but should work. otherwise i could have a go at removing the sky with NUKEV6 for you im practising advanced keying.

Hope it helps

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Computer animation Student
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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

have you tried looking into the audio section of the sequence you created. it maybe of some other rate or 5.1 surround. i dont know exactly but i would look for a stereo channel audio sequence try and match the properties of the mp3 to your sequence.

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Computer animation Student
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> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB

[Toby Gale]

Thanks Ill try this out and keep it posted for now i rendered jpgs. but i will need to use tiff in future.

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Computer animation Student
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MACHINES
> Mac Book Pro 13” 4 gig Ram Nvdia320m intel dual core.

> PC – 16GB Ram Quad core intel 1TB 2×24” HP monitors
SLI 2X nvidia Geforce GT9800 windows7 ultimate +ubuntu

CAMERA
> Panasonic HDC SD700 2×8 GB