Senior Promotion Producer, KCRG-TV (ABC), Cedar Rapids-Iowa City-Waterloo-Dubuque, Iowa | | | | Member Since: April 11th 2001 Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA | | | | |
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| | | | | fractal noiseby Tom Masters 6 days agoI would like to create a fractal noise element that grows, or travels from a center point. Scaling only makes it larger. Transform is close, but it only travels in one direction. any ideas | Re: fractal noise
by Dave LaRonde 6 days ago
Well, when something grows, it does indeed get larger. Do you mean something else by this term Can you describe the look you want in more detail Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar
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| | | | | Using 25 fps AVIs in 1920 60o Projectby David Neumann 6 days agoI have a 1920 x 1080 60i NTSC project on FCP 7. Client gave me a bunch of AVI movie files - 720 x 576 25fps DV DVCPRO PAL. Using Streamclip I made .mov files using Apple ProRes 422 - still at 25fps. I | Re: Using 25 fps AVIs in 1920 60o Project
by Dave LaRonde 6 days ago
David Neumann "I made .mov files using Apple ProRes 422 - still at 25fps." Was the footage originally progressive or interlaced David Neumann "Did my export to Apple ProRes constitute a 'conversion'
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| | | |  | Glitch on renderby Randy McWilson 6 days agoI am regularly getting a one-frame glitch, almost always located in the lower half of a frame that shifts everything over to the right 20-50 pixels and is sometimes dark or slightly brighter than the | Re: Glitch on render
by Dave LaRonde 6 days ago
...and don't use Open GL to accelerate rendering, either. Turn it off. Leave it off. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | | | FCP/Compressor issue MPEG-2by Elliot Beach 1 week agoI m getting a very a annoying issue when using compressor. I have a 04:80 second apple pro res export form final cut, which I am then importing into compressor and applying the DVD SD mpeg-2 best qual | Re: FCP/Compressor issue MPEG-2
by Dave LaRonde 7 days ago
It sounds like FCP messed up the export somehow: odd file headers, whatever. You could try the usual litany of steps to correct FCP Weirdnes, but I think I'd just open the ProRes file in Quicktime, an
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| | | |  | My Text looks horrible on SD conversion.by Evan Angus 7 days agoHi there, I'm trying to create a NTSC version of an animation created in AE. It's a animation of a chart with lots of text elements, and a camera tracks across it. The output looks fine in HD 1080i (2 | | | | |
| | | |  | Unparenting Layersby Pawel Sobolewski 1 week agoHi All, I have a complex comp in which i have a few Bubbles following a null. Now i want one of them to stop following the null and follw another null. The others will be still following the first one | Re: Unparenting Layers
by Dave LaRonde 7 days ago
At the point in time where the change should occur, split the layer. After the split, change the parent on the appropriate layer to the new null. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Ceda
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| | | |  | Animating depth with 2D objectsby Olly Lawer 1 week agoHi, I'm building a storyboard for our latest animation and I'd like to have the camera move from the head of the table (where our character is sitting) to the foot of the table to reveal the family si | Re: Animating depth with 2D objects
by Dave LaRonde 7 days ago
Your plan will probably yield a look that could be classified as "highly stylized". If you were after "photorealistic", you've got a problem. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Ra
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| | | |  | AE render as M2Vby Robert Till 1 week agoI know that rendering to lossless is better practice than rendering with a codec usually, but I'm under a crunch to render ideally for a DVD. My issue is that rendering in the MPEG-DVD format has been | Re: AE render as M2V
by Dave LaRonde 1 week ago
Okay, now I'm stumped. That's just weird, and I don't know what's causing the discrepancy, but I bet it's AE itself. Here's a thought: although I've never used the workflow, I know there's a way to im
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| | | | | The color red drives me mad!!!by andrew donaldson 1 week agoHello legendary Cow folks! Ive had this beef for a while now (no cow related pun intended) about the color red. and black especially. And Ive asked this here before and not really had an answer, so Im | Re: The color red drives me mad!!!
by Dave LaRonde 1 week ago
Now, I do my work in broadcast so this may not apply to you, but here's a recipe for fixing pure 8-bit red, 255-0-0: Make a pure red solid. Apply the levels effect, and set the Output White to 234. Ap
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| | | | | Inverting the warp stabilizer?by Clay Hammons 1 week agoI am working on a handheld shot and am hoping to find a way to use the warp stabilizer to remove motion from the shot, add my effects to the background then undo the stabilization so its back to being | Re: Inverting the warp stabilizer?
by Dave LaRonde 1 week ago
Clay Hammons "If it's not possible with the warp stabilizer what would be a workflow for doing it with the legacy stabilizer " We don't have enough information to recommend a bulletproof method, but
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| | | | | Letterbox 4:3by Jim Makichuk 1 week agoHave a project in 4:3 and guy needs it DVD letterbox. I read in this forum that quality won't be as good. Not sure if I want to try to move it to HD as I've never done that. Have enough problems alrea | Re: Letterbox 4:3
by Dave LaRonde 1 week ago
"Have a project in 4:3 and guy needs it DVD letterbox." Sorry, but can you clarify If your project is 4x3, why would he need the top & bottom cut off Does he want you do convert the 4x3 project to 16x
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| | | |  | video on the sides of my 3d cubeby Stephanie Johnson 2 weeks agoHow do I replace my place holder with video or another composition for a side of my cube I feel really stupid and really embarrassed to ask this question because I've been able to do this once before. | Re: video on the sides of my 3d cube
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
I'd imagine you used square-pixel, perfectly-square solids to make your cube. You can do this: Drag one of those solids from the Solids folder onto the Make Comp icon at the bottom of the project wind
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| | | | | AIC or Pro Res for gfx heavy workflowby Matt Ferguson 2 weeks agoHi All, Im working for an web video company still in its first year of operation. We shoot primarily against a green screen with a Canon XF100. How we've been operating this whole time is that I would | Re: AIC or Pro Res for gfx heavy workflow
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
Whether your work goes to Macs to to Windows boxes, the laterst version of QT 7 (not X, which is toxic) allows you to READ ProRes codecs. It also allows the user to set the gamma correctly. They shoul
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| | | | | Timeline out of synchby Devon Armstrong 2 weeks agoHey all, FCP version 7.0.3: Track 3 and 4 of my audio timeline are out of sync by about 12 frames. I can't move either track independently of the other, even if I lock a track. Does anyone know what m+1 | Re: Timeline out of synch
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
...and you might find this useful, too: http: library.creativecow.net lyon_matt fixing-fcp-assets 1 Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | | | Frame Ratesby Sky Spooner 2 weeks agoI want to encode a 10 Bit Uncompressed QT file into an M2V. The uncompressed file has a frame rate of 23.98. When I change the sequence frame rate to 23.98 several windows close including the Timeline | Re: Frame Rates
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
Sure, why not Unless you need to add something to the file, there's no need to even open FCP. Compressor & DVDSP will do the trick. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | | | Capturing Anamorphic DV footageby John Pastuch 2 weeks agoI'm doing a job for a client where I need to edit some DV footage shot in anamorphic mode. The guy who shot it is a professional and the client requested it shot on miniDV but with 16:9 ratio so he ob | | | | |
| | | | | Calculating Focal Length on Camcorderby Noah Bako 2 weeks agoHie guys, kindly assist me; 'am using a Sony HXR NX5E camcorder to shoot a music video that i want to use with Maya and Nuke but the tutorial 'am using requires me to know the focal length of the came | Re: Calculating Focal Length on Camcorder
by Dave LaRonde 2 weeks ago
That's going to be tough. Unless your camera has interchangeable lenses -- and I doubt that it does -- its lens will probably have a zoom ratio and a minimum and maximum focal length. You would then n
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| | | | | Growing vinesby Olly Lawer 3 weeks agoWe're producing some animations for a garden company. The animation is to show the various stages of growing vines up a a fence. Now, the easiest way is to have each stage illustrated and then animate | Re: Growing vines
by Dave LaRonde 3 weeks ago
There's a tutorial here on the COW about using AE to do what you want. If you use "growing" in the search term, it ought to show up. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | | | After Effects Renders Out Choppy Videoby Adam Kois 3 weeks agoAll of the sudden my project went to rendering out normal looking video to choppy stuff. I have checked all the frame rates and for all of my comps and rendering they are set to 29.97fps. Also when I | | | | |
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| | | |  | Apple are hilariousby Aindreas Gallagher 4 weeks agoquote in this bit: http: www.postmagazine.com Press-Center Daily-News 2012 Apple-reveals-future-FCP-X-update-plans.aspx so the quote goes.. "Apple also pointed out.. that reports suggest.. that the co+4 | Re: Apple are hilarious
by Dave LaRonde 4 weeks ago
TImothy Auld "....all the high school students in my neighborhood have it." ...and I'm sure that's not the only neighborhood where that's happening. Well, now we have some anecdotal information to in
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| | | | | Broadcast standards for a commercial?by Keith Goldstein 2 months agoWe focus on web video. We usually shoot in 1080p 29.97, and send out an H.264 at that size (we edit in ProRes 422, but that file size is far too impractical for clients). Tomorrow we are shooting comm | Re: Broadcast standards for a commercial?
by Dave LaRonde 4 weeks ago
My station is now all-HD and we center-punch HD for air in SD. We still air SD spots: they air in 4x3 in SD, and pillarboxed in HD. I was under the impression that ALL SD broadcasting in NTSC-Land was
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| | | |  | Questions for CS6by Dennis Radeke 1 month agoHi all, I'm very busy prepping for NAB and hope to see some of you there. That said, I always enjoy supporting this community and so... While I expect that many of the questions that might be asked, I | Re: Questions for CS6
by Dave LaRonde 1 month ago
Dennis Radeke "...are there some questions around CS6 versions of Premiere Pro, Prelude and After Effects " Since no one else on the common AE forums seems to have made an extremely kind offer like y
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| | | |  | Green Screen questionby Marc Lucas 2 months agoKeying some recent green screen footage. The greens were not lit as well as they could of been but still not bad results. I'm using dvGarage DV Matte to do the keying. I'm getting on well but one of t | Re: Green Screen question
by Dave LaRonde 1 month ago
Marc Lucas " I take it that because the green screen was lit to bright that the brighter colour information has affected and spilled into the talent thus resulting in the key not performing as it sho
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| | | |  | Funny cat videos on DVDby Greg Andonian 1 month agoI thought this was interesting... http: www.homemediamagazine.com youtube youtube-bows-videos-dvd-26849 ______________________________________________ "THAT'S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we st | Re: Funny cat videos on DVD
by Dave LaRonde 1 month ago
Yeah, I heard about this April Fool's Day prank at breakfast on NPR's Morning Edition. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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| | | | | Fluke or trend? You decide...by Greg Andonian 2 months agoHere's a post from the Premiere Pro forum that I found rather interesting... http: forums.creativecow.net thread 3 922751 ______________________________________________ "THAT'S our fail-safe point. Up | Re: Fluke or trend? You decide...
by Dave LaRonde 2 months ago
Neil Patience "I work through one of the oldest agencies in London that supply freelancers to the broadcast industry all over the UK and some work abroad. I asked them the other day if they had any r
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| | | | | Switching from Premiere to Avid ? ?by lou cann 2 months agoHi all, For the past 10 years, my partner & I have been using premiere for editing. I am getting sick of going to a post house and hear all of them keep asking me.."which are you using..Final cut or A | Re: Switching from Premiere to Avid ? ?
by Dave LaRonde 2 months ago
Look into the now-free Automatic Duck; it will create an AE comp out of an Avid edit timeline. You can only use this trick if you run Avid & AE on the same machine. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer
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