Video editor, DVD Author, colorist, visual effects specialist. | | | | Member Since: March 18th 2003 | | | | |
| | | | |  | ABVB Hardware Questionby Mark Crenshaw 12 hours agoBet that title got your attention! We're not actually using the hardware. I have plans to reuse the 1U cases from the audio and video units. The sides and back are attached with Phillips screws but th | Re: ABVB Hardware Question
by Bill Stephan 9 hours ago
I think they are Torx screws. Auto parts stores have the drivers for these, as they are used extensively in vehicles. Bill Stephan Senior Editor DVD Author USA Studios New York City
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| | | |  | 25P mysteriesby Dale Roberts 1 week agoHI there, I am about to shoot a job in (Im hoping) 1080 25P for Bluray web I am using the trial version of Premiere to look at things.. But Ive noticed there is no 108025P Preset in Media Encoder.. Is | Re: 25P mysteries
by Bill Stephan 7 days ago
1080 23.976P is the universal standard for Blu-ray. Those discs will play correctly in both NTSC and PAL countries. Bill Stephan Senior Editor DVD Author USA Studios New York City
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| | | |  | Clone stamp tool target sizeby stig olsen 1 week agoHi, I want to clone a part from a large picture and add that part to a smaller picture. Im looking for a way to resize down my taget size (make the cloned part that I already have selected smaller) to | Re: Clone stamp tool target size
by Bill Stephan 7 days ago
Stig, I do this all the time by copying and pasting between files. For example, to use a photo from my digital camera (approx. 5000x3000 pixels) as a DVD menu (720x480 pixels 72dpi), I open the file f
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| | | | | Crash on start-upby Brian Scott 2 weeks agoI tried to start photoshop today and received two errors and the app will not start. I tried un-installing and re-installing (cloud apps), but I encounter the same errors Can't post screen shots - you | Re: Crash on start-up
by Bill Stephan 2 weeks ago
Brian, Do you get the Photoshop splash screen when you start the program If so, notice that you can see what files are being loaded. You will probably find that the process goes south at one particula
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| | | | | Pre selected buttonsby Roger Schroeder 3 weeks agoIs there a way to keep a button from being in the "selected" state I have a motion menu that dissolves up and the "selected" state on the button is highlighted during that dissolve. I have "default bu | Re: Pre selected buttons
by Bill Stephan 3 weeks ago
Regardless of whether you menu has a default button selection or not, one of the buttons in the menu must be selected at all times. The selected button is determined by the value for the selected butt
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| | | |  | Adobe on Mac & PCby Don Walker 1 month agoIs anybody on this forum using CS 6 on both a Mac and a PC interchangeably Either a MacPro and a PC laptop or a HP workstation and a MacBook Pro I understand the issues with hard drive compatibility, | Re: Adobe on Mac & PC
by Bill Stephan 1 month ago
In addition to Walter's comments, you have to be careful with the characters in your filenames. Characters that are valid in Mac filenames might be invalid in PC filenames and vice versa. Bill Stephan
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| | | |  | Can't See Menu Overlay to Create a Buttonby David Bauman 1 month agoI've created a video in FCP7 to be my DVD video menu. I imported it, set it to "background" since that's the only setting it really allows you to set it as. Then I took the video and created a menu ov | | | | |
| | | |  | Beginner Questionsby Dave Edwards 1 month agoHi: I'm contemplating using Media Composer for a serious project after years of working with Vegas. I'd be grateful for a couple of answers here: 1 : when using a mix of MXF and MTS is it "safer" in t | Re: Beginner Questions
by Bill Stephan 1 month ago
Dave, 1. That's a loaded question because YMMV depending on what formats you are trying to use. It's safer to import because that process creates new media in an Avid codec, but that will consume more
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| | | | | Bitvice, Soundconverter & Toast - Problemsby Toby Hinger 1 month agoHi Everyone, I'm new to DVD authoring and am having trouble using this software combination. I can successfully make a DVD if I get Toast to do the encode and authoring. But bitvice has a great rep fo | | | | |
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| | | | | Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)by Richard Cardonna 2 months agoWil cloud users have special unique features that will not be available to CS7 production premium app owners I ask because of this: Note: With the exception of Retina display support, the new features | Re: Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)
by Bill Stephan 1 month ago
The reason so many people are having issues with the idea of Creative Cloud is Adobe has discovered the cable TV marketing model. That is, in order to get the channels you want, you have to buy and pa
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| | | | | downsizing an imageby keith vickers 2 months agoI have an image that is large exported as a tiff from C4d. I need to downsize the image for an a3 leaflet but when i try to resize the image loses quality. I have tried resizing bicubicSharp er but I | Re: downsizing an image
by Bill Stephan 2 months ago
Keith, It sounds like you are doing everything correctly. When you resize smaller, you have more image data being packed into a smaller document, so there should be minimal or no loss of quality. Bicu
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| | | | | 3d signals on DVDby Vincent Genova 2 months agoHello everyone, I'm currently working on a project in stereo 3d, but I'm working on a computer that is unable to view it. I have a 3d TV and 3d bluray I'd like to preview my work on, but no 3d blurays | Re: 3d signals on DVD
by Bill Stephan 2 months ago
If the video is encoded in 3D side-by-side format, your 3D TV might actually recognize the 3D signal from a DVD and display it correctly. But I would test this first before trying to use do this with
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| | | | | Video Bitrate Too High errorby Ken Foldenauer 2 months agoWhat exactly does this mean I change the setting in preferences and lower the bit rate to the lowest setting it can go and it still gives me this error. Im new to DVD Studio and dont really know my wa | Re: Video Bitrate Too High error
by Bill Stephan 2 months ago
Ken, Did you encode your footage in Compressor (or another application) or are you just dropping the ProRes footage directly into DVDSP Bypassing the encoding step will give you a mediocre encode over
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| | | |  | DVD studio pro downgrading my videoby Noah Jensen 2 months agoI just finished a 14 minute film shot in HD on a JVC GY-HM700U. On my computer the video file takes up 23 GB of Space but when I import to DVD studio pro it takes up less than 1 GB of disc space. The | Re: DVD studio pro downgrading my video
by Bill Stephan 2 months ago
What software or hadware did you use to encode the video to MPEG-2 for the DVD Or are you merely dropping the Quicktime from your edit system into DVDSP. That will give you a mediocre quality encode.
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| | | | | Face replace of old paintingsby Bernhard Walzl 3 months agoHello! I am replacing some faces over old paintings and I was wondering if someone would know how I can make this look more real. The colours look quite right just the original painting looks rougher | Re: Face replace of old paintings
by Bill Stephan 3 months ago
Alien Skin has some "fine art" Photoshop plug-ins that might be helpful. Also you might want to experiment with adding some texture to the replaced face, which suffers from looking too good compared t
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| | | | | The 1001st PAL-NTSC Questionby Johannes Schwarz 4 months agoHi, So many PAL-NTSC Qs out there.... and I still did not find what I was looking for. I have a 25p PAL Project in Premiere. I want to prepare it for a NTSC-DVD (24p 23,976p) Now, NORMALLY: 1) I would | Re: The 1001st PAL-NTSC Question
by Bill Stephan 4 months ago
Johannes, If you have ProRes or DNxHD codecs available on your system, you can use that instead of the lossless AVI. You can download the DNxHD codecs from Avid's website. These codecs will compress t
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| | | | | VFX first or Grade first?by David Roberts 4 months agoHi guys This may be a dumb question. I feel like I should probably know this by now haha! I'm an editor (7 years MC and Symphony) and I'm looking to take a project to a higher level than my usual work | Re: VFX first or Grade first?
by Bill Stephan 4 months ago
David, Generally, but this depends on the specifics of your workflow, you want to grade your footage first before compositing. If you have shot A needing one grade and shot B needing another grade, yo
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| | | | | What should I buy?by Greg Ball 4 months agoI just got a new PC with windows 7 and I need to buy a new Photoshop. I'm working with a very old Photoshop 7 on my old computer. I'd appreciate advice on what to buy now. I don't want to spend the mo | Re: What should I buy?
by Bill Stephan 4 months ago
I do not recommend buying ANY software product on Ebay. Caveat emptor! Bill Stephan Senior Editor DVD Author USA Studios New York City
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| | | | | Converting 24 fps to 23.976 fps?by JonZ MarZ 6 months agoHello, I'm finishing some game footage that I've recorded in 24 fps and the final output is in the standard 23.976 fps. The problem is it create some subtle stutters. I am wondering if there's any way | Re: Converting 24 fps to 23.976 fps?
by Bill Stephan 6 months ago
Thanks Walter. I had no idea you could reinterpret the frame rate directly within Premiere. I've just started using Premiere with the introduction of CS-6 and have not found all the capabilities lurki
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| | | | | Removing HVDVD_TS Folder in builds locationby Karina Louw 6 months agoHi there, I recently reinstalled FCS3 - and by accident I must have selected HD video standard when i launched DVD Studio pro for the first time. I realized my mistake when I burned a dvd and it would | | | | |
| | | |  | Convert DPX images to QuickTimeby Frank Giardina 6 months agoHi All... A friend of mine has DPX files he wants to have converted to QuickTime. Does anyone know of a workflow for this Frank Giardina 17 Video Production | Re: Convert DPX images to QuickTime
by Bill Stephan 6 months ago
Aja has a software utility for DPX-to-Quicktime conversion. After Effects will also do it by importing the DPX sequence and exporting whatever file format you need. There are also other DPX utilities
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| | | | | Stretching audio to fit a different takeby Mike Schmitt 6 months agoHi there, i'm using Premiere CS6 and I've got an issue that is similar to other posts, but I think a little different. We recorded live audio of a song last weekend with backing vocals, today we shot | | | | |
| | | | | Photoshop Fonts Messed Upby Richie Schut 6 months agoWorking in a file that is standard def wide screen format which is 720x486 with pixel aspect ratio of 1.21. Everything was fine until I needed to make some more changes to my file. All font sizes are | Re: Photoshop Fonts Messed Up
by Bill Stephan 6 months ago
1. Are you running RGB mode with 8-bit color 2. Is the resolution of your image set to 72dpi You say that you can hardly see type that's 72px high, but that should be quite large in a 720x480 frame. B
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