Vince Becquiot
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Yes, there are eSata express cards available. USB 3 would also be a great option. I honestly don’t like Esata on a laptop because it’s so easy to knock out. In the end, USB 3 with a small RAID 5 enclosure would do you best.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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You will basically need a better enclosure. Firewire 800 is pretty slow these days VS Esata/Thurderbolt/USB 3.
If you have either Thurderbolt, or an express card slot, you could look at Caldigit, they are coming out with pretty cool new drives that are MBP compatible.
You’ll also have to look at RAID enclosures for anything significantly faster than what you are getting now.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Dustin,
We have one this setup. Most projects will work just fine. You didn’t mention a RAID enclosure, but that can be as important as the system depending on what you are cutting.
I would recommend the card upgrade for bigger or effects heavy projects.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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You can actually mark in and out point just like Premiere before you bring the clips to your comp.
The easiest however is to do the edit in Premiere, right click on the clip and choose replace with After Effect Comp. That will create an After Effects Comp with the right settings and the length of the clip in your timeline.
The best part is that it becomes a dynamic clip, so you don’t have to render in After Effect to see the changes in Premiere. (although you will probably have to render in Premere to see real time).
If you are doing a lot of these, I would actually advise rendering a file out of After Effects, since many dynamic links can really slow things down.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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It’ll be worth it.
You’ll see the mask tool as a pen icon.
Draw over your duplicated layer of footage, and look for feathering under mask in your top layer.
Then drag the level filter in your top layer and you should get what you need.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi David,
You could do it in Premiere, but After Effects is so much better at it.
The main advantage is you can add feathering to a mask, making you correction a lot less obvious.
It’s also a lot easier to keyframe if there is motion in the shot.
As for the method, as you said, duplicate layer, mask area, and use the levels filter.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi John,
I think this works with FCP because of Prores.
Most of our exports are now H.264, and our export settings are almost always different in resolution and compression settings depending on the client. I’m going to assume that this is the case for the vast majority of Pr users.
The only exception would be if you were to background render to uncompressed, otherwise you would lose quality to an intermediate format. That would work, but you’ll need that solid RAID that just exploded…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Apply the strobe light effect to your top layer. Set blend to 50%. Play with short duration (0.10 or so).
Use the random setting if you need it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi James,
This is a strobe effect (or quick cuts) on a top layer with around half opacity.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Amy,
The white highlight you see around the frame shows the actual size of your clip, meaning it’s larger than the settings your used for your timeline.
You can quickly fix that by right clicking on the clip and choosing scale to frame size. Or you can get more control by adjusting the scale in your effect control panel under motion controls. You can copy and paste attributes to another clip.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area