Todd Perchert
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If I’m understanding this correctly… you could use a series of Pre-Comps. Each precomp’s anchor point would be a corner. Then rotate the precomps. Rotate em all at the same time and get something crazy!
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You can drag a sequence from a bin onto the preview window. That will allow you to treat it as a clip and then you can edit into another sequence. You just can’t edit it into itself. 🙂
Good Luck!
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It sounds like you don’t have an audio track that is the same as your source. First edit, try making your in & out points in your source monitor, then from the bin, drag that clip down to the new item button – next to bin trash can. It will open a new sequence that matches your source files. Then you should be able to edit to the timeline just fine. ‘V’ default is the selection tool. If you are using default keyboard, then ‘.’ (period) is overwrite edit and ‘,’ (comma) is insert.
Good Luck!
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There should be audio icons on the audio track and by the controls just above the video layer. Make sure both of those are turned on. Hit the space bar or play button and you should hear audio if the video has audio. Only other thing would be if it’s something like MXF video, the audio may not come with the video.
I usually just use AE for that sort of thing.
Good Luck!
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Command+Left/Right arrows or Shift+Command+Right/Left Arrows for 10 frames. For some reason, I don’t find the Page Up/Down as convenient.
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No. It doesn’t quite work that way. You will have to move the data off the drive before formatting a new RAID volume. Or you will lose all the data. If you are concerned about losing data, RAID-0 may not be the best option unless you have some kind of backup process to another drive.
Good Luck!
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The green reflects so much into the sword, the best thing will be to duplicate the layer like Dave said, and change the color. Then you’ll need to mask it or create a matte layer. You will need to move it for every frame – since it’s stop motion, it shouldn’t be too bad, just time consuming. Or you can always re-shoot and avoid reflections. No easy fix on that one that I can tell.
Good Luck!
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I was hoping for original image. I’m guessing you have some green reflecting off of the sword… How much tweeking have you done in Keylight? I had a greenscreen the other day where someone had green spots in a hat that were very close in green to the wall. I was able to get a key, although some colors in the hat shifted so there was no green – which was fine. But adjust your Screen Gain and Balance to get a good balance, then adjust the Clip Black and Clip White. When done you may need to soften a little and shrink the Screen. All those adjustments are in Screen Matte in Keylight.
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Does the subject you are trying to key have green as well? Try posting a frame of your original image to a message so we can see and give better advice.
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You can unlink the audio from the video if you Control-click the audio in the timeline and go to ‘Unlink’. As for snapping…. On your timeline window is an icon that looks like a magnet, click that or hit your ‘s’ key.
Good Luck!
TC