[Vincent Rosati]

Try going into Project Settings/General, and click the Playback Settings button to ensure it’s set to play on desktop.

[Vincent Rosati]

Fill out your profile so we can see your setup – OS, etc.
On PC, go to Control Panels/Add-Remove Programs.
When do you get the error message?

[Vincent Rosati]

Sounds more like a question for the After Effects forum, there’s plenty of genius there that can help you.
You should get a little more specific with what you need to do to the footage, maybe provide a link to some frames.
To work with video footage in Photoshop you might need to, first, create a .FLM (Filmstrip) file. This file format creates crazy huge files, so you’d need a ton of RAM.

With Photoshop, you’d probably end up doing more traditional rotoscoping, which is very time consuming. Just guessing at your needs, I’d really suggest AE, or some other dedicated post-processing app.

As far as restoration techniques, on of my fav’s is applying an S-Curve to the footage.
https://dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway2.php
This can be done in PS or AE.

If you need to stabilize jumpy footage, that should be done in AE with Tracker Controls, not manually in PS.

Hope this gets you started. : )

[Vincent Rosati]

With the object selected…
If you need to change the stroke color, double-click on the Stroke tool on the tools palette – near the bottom. (probably not what you meant : )
If you want to change the highlight color of the path (including the handles), highlight the layer in the Layers palette and click the Layers palette “triangle” drop-down menu and choose “Options for Layer XX”, there you can change the color to whatever.

[Vincent Rosati]

Not sure if this will help at all with your issue, but to “legalize” your RGB images for CRT display – add an Adjustment Layer/Levels to the top layer of your comps and set…
Input Black: 16 (default 0)
Input White: 235 (default 255)
Output Black: 16 (default 0)
Output White: 235 (default 255)
on the RGB Channel.

Note: These figure slightly exceed the broadcast legal spec’s to add an extra touch of safety. It might appear drastic on your monitor, but will go unnoticed on a television CRT.

[Vincent Rosati]

I haven’t used Myscreen recorder, but when I do desktop video capture I’ve had similar issues. I understand it’s a codec issue. My solution is to decompress the video with AVS Video Converter, before importing to Premiere.

[Vincent Rosati]

To use MPEG-2 in Premiere you’ll need an MPEG-2 codec. Installing MainConcept MPEG Pro will enable you to do this.
If you’re on a PC, uncompressed AVI should import. If you’re on a Mac, I’ve seen issues importing AVI, use uncompressed MOV for Mac.
If you could add your system spec’s to your profile that might help us to better answer your issue.
Hope this helps. : )

[Vincent Rosati]

You can import the AI file into After Effects, than drop it into a layer.
If you have a closed path that outlines you subject in the Illustrator file you can use that as a layer mask in After Effects. Just copy the path in AI, than select the layer in AE and paste.
Do you need a mask, or could you just delete the unwanted parts from the AI file?

[Vincent Rosati]

Phil-
DVD Decrypter to pull the VOBs to your hard drive, familiarize yourself with the DMCA 😉
To decompress VOBs I usually use AVS Video Converter – I’m on a PC, so I decompress to AVI uncompressed, if your on a MAC you’ll probably want MOV uncompressed.
VOBs are MPEG-2 files. You can rename a VOBs file extension to .MPG and it will import into anything that supports MPEG-2.
You can get MainConcept MPEG-Pro for Premiere which supports MPEG-2, for encoding/playback/exporting, though I’ve had limited success with editing MPEG-2 directly.
There’s a QuickTime Pro MPEG-2 codec that’s reasonably priced, that should allow you to export uncompressed video from MPEG-2.

No problem with the Q’s, I like to help when I can 🙂

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

As long as the audio isn’t clipping (going into the red area) you’re alright.
I like to keep a couple of audio rips from commercial DVD’s available, that contain a wide range of audio – speech, action, dramatic music, etc. I’ll import these files into my projects and open them in the audio monitor and adjust my levels accordingly.