Tom Scoville
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I’ve seen this too. I made a stack of Post-it notes for a spot and had that same problem. It showed up on different sides as the camera moved in and then out again. I was under a tight deadline, so I didn’t have time to investigate the cause.
Tom
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If the project stays open long enough, you might be able to copy the entire sequence, open a new PP2.0 project and paste onto the new timeline. You may need to apply transitions again though. We have noticed they don’t often make it into the new project…but we have Matrox cards and that adds another layer of sometimes problematic behavior!
Keep your fingers crossed and let us know if it works!
Tom
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You might try capturing as DV/AVI files. Don’t know if it’s the Media Player codec that’s causing the blurring, but I know AVI can work well with Keylight…at least it did for me on Wednesday. It’s still DV footage, so don’t expect to pull a key as nice as you might with a higher res. format, but the results can still be pretty good.
Tom
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I have been having a similar problem, but unlike you, unlinking and relinking solves the problem. In your case, if re-conforming doesn’t do it, you may just want to move your files to another folder/drive and then batch capture again. Don’t delete the originals until you know you still have accurate capture info though. Depends on how many clips and tapes you have to deal with and whether or not you need to ride audio on a mixer.
Good luck,
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OK-I’ll bite. What’s vlc?
Things usually look pretty chunky on the source and preview windows on the computer monitor. Do you have an NTSC monitor to view the video overlay? Not sure if you already know this, but you need to output to a monitor via the 1394 and/or an appropriate D/A device to see full resolution. I just use my home DV-cam and an old Sony TV when editing at home. If you are using only 1 computer monitor on your 6200 card, you can output the video overlay to the SHVS jack on the card. Worked with my 5500 card until I bought 2 19″ LCDs.
Tom
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Boy, I hope so…we’ve been using it now for a 3+ years to cut :30 spots. Then again…we’re just local cable and broadcast folks here!
Tom
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Hi Jean,
Panopticum has the plugin you want. I have never used this one, but I think we have it on one of our systems.
https://www.panopticum.com/pr/curtains/theatre.shtmlAlso look at Burger’s Transitions. There is a Curtain transition in there. Might not have many parameters to adjust, but it’s FREE!
https://www.burgers-transition-site.de/downloads/transitions/index.htmlTom
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We have been having problems with the titler also. I installed a new C drive recently, so all software is fairly fresh. But since the new drive went into service, the titler has been acting funny, even on newly created projects. If you move a background item, like a simple colored rectangle, sometimes fonts above it will change size or tracking. Maddening!! Seems like the more complex the title, the more problems we have. I was ready to blame it on our Matrox cards, but I’m not sure if that’s the case now.
Hope we both find a cure!
Tom
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Aanarav,
Could he save the project under a different name, unlink the media files using the option to remove the files from his drive, and then batch capture them again? This wouldn’t change his original project at all, would it?
Tom
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I would agree with Steve that if you have lots of individual clips to process, Audition (or something similar) may be a worthwhile investment. There are some free tutorials to help ease the learning curve too. For now, you may have a tedious task in front of you and I hope you don’t 66 clips to process!
I didn’t know about the free version of Pro Tools and looked it up on their site. It won’t run on XP but I do have an old Win 98 box laying around somewhere. I’ll bet there is another free or shareware program out there that would let you batch normalize in a fashion similar to Audition and will run on XP. The trick is finding it out on the web.
Good luck,
Tom S