[Zander]

well find the effect that ends up with teh result your looking for to start with, precomp and reverse teh clip

for example:

apply shatter, go to teh end of the effect life, fiddle with it till the peices are the way you would like them, and then play the clip backwards.

if none of the effects in after effects work for you it may be time to look at some 3rd party plugins

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[Zander]

well no, use kinoflows or profesional florescant lights, normal florescants fluctaute in color and “strobe” so be cautius of this

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[Zander]

something else i failed to mention, is home outlets

here the deal with power and outlets

step 1: Find your circuit braker
step 2: open it up and map it out, which curcuit goes where, this is good for general use anyways.
step 3: if you have switch fuses (which you should have in anyplace built aftre 1960 or so) look at the numbers on the switches themselves, they refer to amps, numbers like 5, 10, and 20 are common place, they refer to total amp loads, i.e. how many amps each curcuit can handle. here’s a rough fudgeit calculation for saftey sake, 5 amps can support a 500 watt light, but as i said before theres the overload value, so fudgeit, say instead of 500 say 450

so same numbers, if you have a 10 on your switch yo can handle roughly 900 watts of power

just make sure you got eddison plugs (or matching plugs if in other countries)

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[Zander]

ok, well ive done a bunch of electrick wok at my time in film school, and here’s my advice:

if you have 500 wattsmake surre you have atleast 550 to 600 watts of power coming from your source, as each light turns on, it draws roughly 110% of it’s power, so if you have a 250 watt light, you’ll end up drawing 275watts of power, so first off, never turn on both lights at once, give it 30 seconds, and B if you only had 500 watts of power available at your generator, you would draw 525 watts at the turning on of your second light.

Now, as far as extension cords go, your average heavy duty cords will work fine, just remember more than 100 feet and your color temperature will bein to change, not giving you a precise calibrated color that you may not be able to see.

on top of this all, be aware that 500 watts of light is a very small region of strong light. If you’ve ever been on a movie shoot, the smallest light generally used is 650 watts,

thats not to say that you can’t use these lights, in a small studio they will be awsome to light a SMALL greenscrean, like 8′ 12′ MAX

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[Zander]

oh, now thats just mean, it’s like saying “hey every one can get free marshmellows, but their in a solid steel box, and i have the key

i want my free 48Khz marshmellows,

on a side note theres a really awsome tutorial about how to make an aiff converter in compressor to take all those files that you will be converting and put them into a folder

read all about it over at lafcpug.org

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[Zander]

as jameson said, fundementally they are the same, and to a point they are neerly identicle, slightly different look, and slightly different feel, if you don’t intend on doing hardcore, professional movies, premiere is cool especially when entangled with teh rest of teh adobe bundle, encore can make some awsome dvd’s with the help of adob’es aftereffects.

but final cut is, well, more advanced, has more features, is a little more well rounded, and is more extensive, you can do more in finalcut than avid, as to what more that is, im not super clear after the recent upgrade in adobe, you could go to both websites and compare spec lists.

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[Zander]

i asked this previusly and found out the answer

a trong worded NO

i mean even finalcut can be forward compatable with some effort, sure any new effects wouldn’t open, and it only works about 90% of the time but still, it works

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[Zander]

it should be there, if there is anything left of the original project, you can open the project file and go up to file restore, but as this isn’t an option look for a file named the same as your projectfile with roughly 10 numbers after it

livelife.fcp_04-25-06_0151

thats my last autosave from a recent project located here

bootdrive:[main user folder]:documents:final cut pro documents: autosave vault:[project name].fcp and then the top most will be the most recent project file

as a side note, keeping the projectfiles on your comuter (or on a different drive than that of your scratch) will be faster than running them on the same drive, as your drive will constantly go back and forth when looking for referances, causing dropped frames, slower renders and a less responsive timeline.

your project files should be located in a similar location

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[Zander]

i would assume so, shatter is going to take what ever you have in 2d and shatter it, no matter what as long as it’s on teh same layer, and what not you’ll be fine( ie pre compose the stroked circle, put it on the comp pre compose and shatter that precomp)

just make sre you have some sort of mask over your circle set for the shatter area, as to only satter the inside of the region not the outside, though im sure your ten steps ahead of me there.

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[Zander]

you could always hand trim it, figure out after how many frame you have to cut the sequence up to get it, and do it that way, cut out a frame, move to teh next frame, cut that our and shift+delete the footage before, and continue and i don’t think it would take all that much rendering would it?

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