[Yosep Sugiarto]

Hi Bill,

I agree with William McQueen either. But my experiences using green screen and key the BG to motion or stills, better to use After Effect for details, try “Key Light” also but I love “Primatte Keyer” it’s easy… if you want to use the premiere keying, then it means your production must be very good [almost perfect].

The easiest way to do using green screen is:
1. Flatten the Green Screen until you see the color of the green are the same on your Camcorder, of course with lightings.
2. Your object must have a key light on it’s front side and back side, while keeping the BG color remain the same [place the object a bit further from the BG, prevented from shadows].
3. if you have a flat green BG and clear object in front of it, start to shoot, of course if you have camera, put the zebra on the object or subject].
4. RECORD it and later on editing, easy to remove the Green Screen.

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

Hi Bram,

I am using CS4 too, and it works fast on my coputer, did you upgrade your software from CS3 to CS4 while the CS3 still on your computer or did you uninstall the CS3 first and then install the CS4? i am affraid if you install the CS4 while CS3 still on it and then later u uninstall the CS3, some systems are missing, May be you can re-install the software.

I used Intel Quadcore 3,2GHZ
8 GB RAM
3 TB HDD
VGA 512MB
Vista Business 64bit
It works pretty fast…

or may be your AJA 2k Xena I/O doen’t really compatible with the software… I am not sure about AJA stuff…

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

Hi again vincent, thx for the reply… But anyway by decreasing the frame rate, I did once and actually my eyes almost can’t see the different…. 🙂 how about you!? did you find slight difference!?

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

hi dave, if you are using adobe premiere without any other hardware such as matrox, or blackmagic, etc. the advantages of using raw / uncompressed material are:

1. When you place the footage into timeline, you don’t have to render preview when you want to watch it… but if you put any effect on it probably you will start to have preview render it..
2. Most of the software for editing works easily with the uncompress video material. If you have any compressed material sometimes it works with SOME video editing software and SOME are not working…
3. The quality itself is better! [depending what are you comparing with!?]

Those are the reason I knew… I could tell you more but basically the uncompressed files alias RAW video material is better…

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

Hi Francois,

01. You can’t use Premiere 6.5 to edit or even render HD.
02. You CAN import the HD footage to Premiere 6.5.
03. You can edit the footage but in SD [Standard Definiton] editing, the resolution must be widescreen 16:9 or 1025×576 pixel.

04. Do you have adobe after Effect with you!? anyway if you have the HD camcorder with you [the miniDV one] you can downconvert it to SD resolution and later edit it in normal SD not in HD.

05. You can’t capture HD video using Premiere 6.5, you must downconvert the video, it is depending on your camcorder.

Hope it clear enough…

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

1. Try to install CS3 on your PC, then save the project in different file name [for backup let’s say] it will be saved in CS3 format if you save it using CS3.
2. Try to open the file on CS3 on your mac. because since I updated the CS3 on Mac version, it can open my PC CS3 files… adobe updated it…

Well it works for me… I’ve experienced it before…

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

You can make it using After Effect… make a type of any font you like, then find the box of effects, find “Text” then find “fade transition… there are several effects and one of them is the one you looking at… hope it helps…

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

Then try to re-install the Premiere Pro CS3… did you try to re-install? I don’t use vista yet. coz my XP still capable to edit in HD 😀

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

what are you using XP version? 2 or 3? try to use SP2, coz SP3 sometimes not working with several H/W. or try to use original version 😀

Joe

[Yosep Sugiarto]

Hi Jaron, do you use original version or copied? coz my friend use pirated one and it doesn’t work but then my friend buy the original version, it just work well. Strange thing happened.

Joe