Todd Perchert
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Ah! Windows. Do you have Adobe Acrobat installed? If so, when you go to print you should have the option to select print devices – don’t select your printer, select Adobe PDF. If you don’t have Acrobat, get it, install it.
Good Luck!
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When you select to Print, a dialog box should come up. Inside that box should be Print Settings. If you go there you should be able to select to print (save) to a PDF.
Good Luck!
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Not completely sure I follow you… but you will need to duplicate your pre-comp each time or you will end up changing it in every instance it is used, as you’ve found out.
Select your Pre-Comp in your Project Window and hit CMD+D. That will duplicate it.
Then use your new precomp in the next sequence you are working with.
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I think your best bet is to use Illustrator. It works much better for patterns. You can Google and find a tutorial easy enough. But, if you have to use PS, you can make a square shape, add stroke and drop the opacity to the inner part so you only see the stroke. Duplicate your layer, scale it down, repeat. I would just duplicate the first layer each time so you can shrink down equal percentages – like the first would be 95%, second would be 90% and so on. Using stroke will help to keep your lines a consistent size. There may be easier ways, but this is what I have offhand.
Good Luck!
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Bob is right. The best use of the enclosure would be a RAID-6 array. Edit your video/audio from it.
Backup to another source. If you have a catastrophic failure of controller and/or backplane and cannot get the exact same hardware, you may lose your data and backup. You don’t want that.
Good Luck!
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You can’t set up your RAID without the drives.
Once you have the drives, you have two options. 1. Use the Marvell controller to setup the RAID, or 2. Use the OS to setup the RAID. From my experience, you’ll probably get about the same speed out of the OS RAID-0 as you would the Marvell controller. Definitely don’t do RAID-5 with the Marvell controller though, unless they’ve improved over the last few years – but I doubt it.
There is one caveat. I’ve seen Mobo SATA controllers that when they are set to RAID in the BIOS, want to take the entire set of ports for the RAID – others let you select the ports for RAID. I don’t know your mobo, so I can’t say what will happen. If you only want RAID-0, I’d say to use the OS to stripe the drives when you get them. Easy Peasy. Just make sure you do have a good backup solution.
Good Luck!
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Like Bob said, chances are buying a MAc would be best. There are PCIe cards for PC’s, but they are very motherboard specific. I’ve never tried any of the cards, so I can’t say how well they do work. I’ve seen these cards for HP Z-series and certain ASUS mobos, I’m sure there are more.
Good Luck!
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You should be able to CTRL+Click (or Right+Click) the clip in the bin, select Modify, then Audio Channels. You should be able to pan stereo tracks there or make mono.
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I would enjoy going to the Adobe forums now and again, except every time I sign in, my browser comes up with an error. Chrome says it’s a redirect loop. Firefox says it redirects in a way that will never complete.
Guess I’ll stick with the COW.
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Myself, about the only thing would be to maybe add a sharpen filter, only about 15 – 25, just to help with some of the softness that occurred going to VHS. The color comes to preference. The old film may not have a large amount of contrast, and you might want to keep it that way. The black and white footage, you might want to remove the color or add a Black and White filter to remove the color – some color may have made it’s way into the noise on VHS.
That’s just a couple of thoughts to help you.
Good Luck!
TC