Vince Becquiot
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Great, BTW, now that I think of it, my ’25 minutes’ might have been a little overly optimistic, could be up to 40, but I’m not sure where you ‘ll be exactly…
Vince
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BTW Tim, if you are actually IN San Jose, VER will be closer to you (about 25 minutes away…well not on a Friday ;-). Their rates are very reasonable.
Vince
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Rental Express, ask for Steve or Dave (that’s in San Francisco) rentvideo.com, or try VER https://www.verrents.com/san_francisco.php
Both offer great quality A/V equipment.
Vince
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Rendered clips will take a lot longer to load than non-rendered ones. Separating previews from OS, and from captured footage will also help. I usually wait until I’m ready to preview the final project to do a full render. In the meantime, I render small segments that I really need to preview, and purge the rendered files before doing a final save. On my current project, my load time on a dual core Intel / 32 bits, 2 GIG of ram is about 30 seconds for 6 hours worth of footage. BTW, believe it or not, 64 bit will probably make things worse on Premiere as overall speed goes.
Vince
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Of course, I would recommend an upgrade to PP2 with its 3 way color correction, or the color finesse plugin… I think premiere 6.5 has Hue / Lightness / Saturation under image control / color balance. During production, you will need a switcher, a waveform monitor/vectorscope, and a possibly a chip chart. For weddings, that might not be possible to budget for, but that’ s really the only way to color balance 2 or more cameras. And that usually means having 2 identical cameras, with a descent way to control them, at the minimum a paintbox, or a CCU. That also means runnimg cable, which may be impractible, or even impossible at a wedding.
Vince
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Yes, it’s always a tuff balance, especially with animation, because there isn’t really a good way to monitor your design as you would a camera shoot.
Hard edges are also an issue, especially with NTSC. MSN has a web page that allows you to find safe RGB colors targeted for TV; that should come in pretty handy.
https://developer.msntv.com/Tools/Colorpickrgd.asp
Also, try to avoid sudden changes from extreme brightness to extreme darkness.
Good luck,
Vince
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You may get get an occasional (small) warping in CRT television because it basically can’t handle the brightness ratio (very bright next to very dark). You might see this happens in explosion scenes for example, but it’s so fast that you don’t notice it. If it is noticeable you have a level issue.
What you first need to do is make sure that your levels are legal. You’ll have to look at the YC waveform in Premiere, (or even better an external Waveform monitor) and make sure that your levels fall between 0 and 100 IRE (since you are in Pal).
Also look at the color saturation and make sure that it falls within legal limits.
Finally, you may have to modify your animation so that the background is a little brighter or your logo a little darker.
Cheers,
Vince
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If you want a simple and free way to record your screen (although only to wmv) try Windows Media Encoder
Vince
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I think that just the implementation of DV Rack will give FCP quite a bit to chew on, unless Adobe decides to keep DV rack as a separate application.
Vince
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Well, since most songs have a build up of instruments over time that would force a higher compression on the overall track gradually, but that would be the only reason.
Vince