Former Senior Promotion Producer, KCRG-TV (ABC), Cedar Rapids-Iowa City-Waterloo-Dubuque, Iowa | | | | Member Since: April 11th 2001 Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA | | | | |
Friends:  Angie Taylor  Brian Charles  Dave Johnson  David Johnson  grinner hester  Joey Foreman  Kathlyn Lindeboom  Kevin Monahan  Michael Szalapski  Richard Harrington  Sohrab Sandhu  Todd Kopriva  Walter Soyka | | | | |  | XML with kinda bad timecodeby James Brill 2 days agoSo I receive XML's from Editors to prep for grading in Resolve and I've noticed that when they use multicam the clips seem to have an error with their timecode. When I matchframe from the shot in the | Re: XML with kinda bad timecode
by Dave LaRonde 2 days ago
Glad you found it. Sorry I wasn't any help. I rarely work with XML's, and it sure smelled like a timecode problem. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | |  | The analogies.by Jeremy Garchow 3 days agoThere are more car analogies running around about the CC. We can't help ourselves. Franz must be pissed. :) Pissed, in the US, has different meanings than other places of the world; kind of like, fann+1 | Re: The analogies.
by Dave LaRonde 2 days ago
I want more out of my flying cars. I want time travel, too. I vote DeLorean. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | |  | projector wont deinterlaceby Stu Gilbert 3 days agoshot at 24p, edited in a 29.97 sequence, lower frame first. exported w compressor, prores 422. rented an optima th1020 projector for the screening (on monday). going through my laptop, dv to vga to pr | Re: projector wont deinterlace
by Dave LaRonde 2 days ago
Bret Williams "If it was all shot 24p, you really should edit 24p" Amen to that! You'll probably have to remove the pulldown on INDIVIDUAL SHOTS, shot by shot. The playback device being used also pla
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| | | |  | Seeking New York City mapby Neil Orman 5 days agoAnyone know of any good quality, downloadable maps of New York City, for use in a quick info-graphic Specifically it needs to have good detail of northern Manhattan neighborhoods and also make clear i | | | | |
| | | |  | Photo montage with rapid fire cutsby L. Stewart 4 days agoHello all, I was wondering if there was a plug-in or a simple technique that could be used to create a photo montage with increasingly fast cuts - i.e. the cuts between photos increase in pace until t | Re: Photo montage with rapid fire cuts
by Dave LaRonde 3 days ago
Yes, the plugin is called a nonlinear editing application. Think Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas, Avid, Adopbe Premiere Pro... cripes, for cuts-only, I suppose Windows Movie Maker and iMovie can do it. I do
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| | | | | Creative Cloud Facebook pageby Gustavo Bermudas 5 days agoI would encourage everyone to take at a look at it https: www.facebook.com adobecreativecloud It's actually kind of comical, Adoble keeps posting about cool stuff you can do with Creative Cloud, and p | Re: Creative Cloud Facebook page
by Dave LaRonde 4 days ago
Gustavo Bermudas "...once trust is damaged, it's very hard to restore it." Amen, brother. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | |  | Replacing a Layer in a Comp problemby Marc Lucas 4 days agoHave a Comp that has a layer inside that is a still .psd file. It was a reference layer to see where I would eventually be having a five sec .mov file. I am at the stage now where I have replaced the | Re: Replacing a Layer in a Comp problem
by Dave LaRonde 4 days ago
A workaround: add the movie footage to the comp, trim it up as necessary, and paste all the modified attributes of the Photoshop layer into the movie layer. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Producer
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| | | |  | vertical green lines in chroma keyed exportby melissa 5 days agoGreetings. I'm using FCP 7.0.3 to chroma key some green screen. The work in Final Cut looks decent, but when I export the video in compressor to Apple Pro Res 422 (the same as the footage I'm working | | | | |
| | | |  | After Effects XML editing....by Alex Udell 5 days agoHi all... Looking at adapting a browser based tool we have for encoding templates to owork with After Effects (away from Motion). Pretty simple stuff. The Project will contain reference to a video fil | Re: After Effects XML editing....
by Dave LaRonde 5 days ago
Here is information straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak; http: help.adobe.com en_US aftereffects cs using WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f86a.html Look for the section called "Project F
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| | | |  | FCP Export - odd sound levelsby Michael Lavis 5 days agoHi Has any one ever encountered a problem with audio when exporting from fcp. When i export complex timelines from fcp i sometimes get weird audio levels when music will go quiet and then get louder e | Re: FCP Export - odd sound levels
by Dave LaRonde 5 days ago
Open your project, find the Render Manager for your project, and delete every blessed piece of audio you find in your project's render manager. Then re-render all the audio. It should go quickly. Dave
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| | | |  | Render settings for a DVD?by Oliver de Morassé 2 weeks agoWe have shot some HD422 25P footage on a video camera which produces .mxf files. These import into AE CS5 no problem and I set my project's working space to be HDTV (Rec.709) and selected Linearize Wo | Re: Render settings for a DVD?
by Dave LaRonde 5 days ago
Oliver de Morass "When I look at a film on DVD on my TV - the quality is great... why can't I create something similar " You didn't see the image quality of the film on DVD BEFORE it went to DVD. How
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| | | | | Cyclist at SUNSETby Kalyan Tagore 5 days agoHey friends, I am making a short documentary about a Cyclist. The END FRAME of the video should be something like this... " Cyclist approaching towards the Horizon (or SUNSET) " But I dont have a perf | Re: Cyclist at SUNSET
by Dave LaRonde 5 days ago
I would recommend that if you don't have the budget that you spend the time scouting locations. There must certainly be a nearby road that runs east-west with a gentle slope and relatively few feature
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| | | |  | Stutter in videoby Eric Lemaster 6 days agoI have a video which consist of various panning shots. During editing and after exporting, I can play back on my 6 core 2.66 GHz 12GB 1333MHz DDR3 Mac with no problems. However, when I take the same e | Re: Stutter in video
by Dave LaRonde 6 days ago
That bit rate should be fine. Now the problem goes back to the hardware, and the OTHER things you have it do as you play the file back. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar R
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| | | | | RotoScoping Versus Maskingby Lou Williams 1 week agoI have scene that I am working on. It's the interior of an airplane and I need to replace what is currently being seen outside the airplane window. In the scene passengers arms are in constant motion | Re: RotoScoping Versus Masking
by Dave LaRonde 1 week ago
I suppose this shot is in the can with no chance whatsoever of re-shooting. That's too bad. You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by putting a green screen background in those windows and usi
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| | | |  | Burning Footage to VHSby Ollie Inglis 2 weeks agoHi guys, wasnt exactly sure what forum to post this on - but i am trying to figure out how to burn footage from a mac pc onto a vhs tape so i can then recapture it. What equipment would i need any lin | Re: Burning Footage to VHS
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
In that clip you found, I thought the color saturation was WAY too high for VHS. VHS stinks at good color replication: it's usually on the low side of chroma levels. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion
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| | | | | How is this effect done!?by John Peruso 3 weeks agoBeen racking my brain ever since I saw this commercial trying to figure out how they achieve this effect of the start line rolling over stuff, as well as underneath items, sort of like the first down | Re: How is this effect done!?
by Dave LaRonde 3 weeks ago
Here's my idea, based on the the following facts: this is national spot, created by a big-time ad agency, and airs in prime time on major TV networks. Highly-regarded effects houses don't only work on
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| | | |  | Logo Entering Effectby John Mark 3 weeks agoIs is possible to create this logo entering effect using the same logo (channel 9) as in the video using after effects CS6. Watch from 12 sec - https: www.youtube.com watch v=Fo4RVkwBMws A News Graphi | Re: Logo Entering Effect
by Dave LaRonde 3 weeks ago
The video link shows the normal Big Bang Theory scene transition: a stylized atom modeled & animated in a 3D application over a colored background. Above this animation, there's a second animation mad
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| | | | | drawing on video animationby Mo Hirsi 2 months agohow do i go about in creating the drawings seen in this video http: www.youtube.com watch v=16xegelIYj0 any suggestions and ideas would be much appreciated | Re: drawing on video animation
by Dave LaRonde 2 months ago
Y'know what, Joe If that's the only oversight you make within the next three months, it will still be about 20 less than mine. You know more than I do about the really complicated stuff. I'm glad they
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| | | | | Remove scratches from "scratched sensor".by Theo Kondak 2 months agoSome months ago, i was recording a video, capturing some lasers (http: www.youtube.com watch v=jK6L2hGQD_Y) in a live event.That partialy destroyed my sensor, and now my camera has some red markings i | | | | |
| | | | | IMAG a video wall.by Terry Crist 3 months agoDoes anyone have tips to IMAG (Image MAGnification) a video wall I am going to be working on a project where I am filming a speaker (with a Panasonic HPX-250, probably 1080 24p) who will be standing i | | | | |
| | | | | Article: Keeping Them Guessingby Dave LaRonde 3 months ago Adobe After Effects Keeping Them Guessing For 22 years, Dave LaRonde created on-air promotion for KCRG-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Through the years, one thing has remained constant: | | | | |
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| | | |  | DSLR Camera Recomendationsby Brian Cooney 4 months agoHello. I'm a video editor motion gfx artst by trade. I shoot ocasionally but haven't shot regularly in over 5 years. I'm somewhat familiar with the D800 and 60D. I'd like to be able to do some side wo | Re: DSLR Camera Recomendations
by Dave LaRonde 4 months ago
I'd buy a DSLR for use with your other clients -- they can fit in tight spots, and you can shoot incognito with one -- and also have it handy for non-profit use. Dave LaRonde Former Sr. Promotion Prod
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| | | |  | Article: The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinemaby Debra Kaufman 5 months ago Cinematography The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinema The technology wizards of the film TV industry have been talking about High Frame Rate cinema for a long time; indeed, Douglas Trumbull' | @denise quesnel
by Dave LaRonde 5 months ago
Hi, Denise... I looked at the web site, and from what I was able to see, you shot tests in various frame rates of a dance performance. Have you gotten to the point where you can cut together a sequenc
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| | | | | 30fps to 29.99...by Lon Waitman 6 months agoi have a lot video products that i have been selling via one particular website, and they have always asked for 30fps. and now i have found another site on which i am selling my vids and they want 29. | Re: 30fps to 29.99...
by Dave LaRonde 6 months ago
Lon Waitman " it will be ok to just render out at 29.97." ....um, that's no necessarily so. You should CONFORM the footage to 29.97: you change the frame rate slightly. If you put 30fps footage in a
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| | | |  | Getting 24p to look good on DVDby Casey Petersen 7 months agoMany people love DSLR technology and have been shooting 24p to get the film look everyone seems to love. I shoot 24p on Canon 7D and 60D (convert to ProRes using Philip Bloom's MPEG Streamclip workflo | Re: Getting 24p to look good on DVD
by Dave LaRonde 6 months ago
I'd double-check the camera instruction manual. Many DSLRs are capable of shooting at 23.976 frames sec (aka 23.98, aka 24pn) and would NOT contain any pulldown. There's a simple way to check: what's
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| | | |  | Keying Canon Footage in CS5.5...by Corbin Gross 8 months agoI'd love to hear some workflow suggestions from you guys. I'm reasonably familiar with Keylight and pretty darn good with AE and PPro. I'm keying footage shot on a Canon 5DMkIII. The footage is good. | Re: Keying Canon Footage in CS5.5...
by Dave LaRonde 8 months ago
I think you're mistaken. I would never transcode to FLV. I don't know much about Cineform; my footage has all come from Macs. However, I'm confident that by its reputation alone it has a setting that
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| | | |  | Slow motionby Danyel Mitchell 8 months agoHow do I get the really awesome slow motion effect in video Should I just do everything in post Is it possible to shoot 24p and then 60p to get the cinema look If I can shoot 24 and 60, would I still | Re: Slow motion
by Dave LaRonde 8 months ago
Shoot at the fastest frame rate you can. If your target frame rate is 23.976 AND you shoot at 59.94 fps, your footage will already be 2.5 times slower than normal w3hen you conform it to 23.976. That'
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| | | | | Shooting A Weekend Timelapseby James de Boer 8 months agoI'm planning on shooting a full weekend timelapse on the 5D MK3 of a highway project here in Vancouver in a few weeks. There will be lots of action going on and we're getting it from a few different a | | | | |
| | | |  | Associated Press switches to Premiere proby Greg Andonian 8 months agoI saw this in the Tedious Track Based post, and thought it deserved its own thread: http: www.adobe.com content dam Adobe en customer-success pdfs associated-press-case-study.pdf (I'll never doubt you+2 | | | | |
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