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Friends:  Bob Zelin  Dave Johnson  Dave LaRonde  Hunter Hempen  Michael Szalapski  Todd Kopriva  Walter Soyka | | | | | | new to EX format questionsby Dave Johnson 6 months agoI've used XDcamHD for a few years and love it, but have never touched the EX format and need to buy a PMW-EX3 for my employer on short order. I wasn't expecting so many record options and have very li | Re: new to EX format questions
by David Johnson 5 months ago
Thanks for the great feedback, Butch. Our circumstances aren't as extreme as shooting news so it's reassuring to know that the format stands up in your scenario. We use XDcam Browser for our XD-camHD
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| | | |  | Workstation for After Effectsby Brian Betz 6 months agoI am shopping for a workstation and any help would be most appreciated. First I will explain what I will be doing with the workstation. I will be running CS 5.5 After Effects, Premier, and Photoshop. | Re: Workstation for After Effects
by David Johnson 6 months ago
Glad to help, Brian. Brian Betz "I'm thinking that the hard drives will be better off without RAID and just have the three drives." From a performance standpoint, yes, you are correct that separate dr
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| | | |  | Objects move inbetween keyframesby Ben Johnson 6 months agoHi, Using After Effects CS4. On my stage I have a basic rectangle shape that I use to place text on top. At one point this shape slides into position, the text appears and then the shape slides out of | Re: Objects move inbetween keyframes
by David Johnson 6 months ago
Just to add to John's answer, you may want to check the preferences box that says something like "default spatial interpolation to linear" to avoid this issue in the future until you get more use to w
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| | | |  | reverse sequence/keyframesby gary Jarvis 6 months agoEvening all, I am trying to find a way to reverse a procedure i.e. I have a mouth zooming out of nowhere and grabbing something, I would now like to copy-reverse paste and move on rather than re-manip | Re: reverse sequence/keyframes
by David Johnson 6 months ago
One way is to precomp the layers, apply Time Remapping to the precomp layer, then switch the positions of the two default keyframes that are created when Time Remapping is applied.
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| | | |  | Keyframing Effectsby Charles Williams 9 months agois it possible to keyframe toggle effects on and off. so i have some green screen footage with 5 different effects on it. Keylight, (3)Curves effects, Denoise and degrain. and what i want is for the f | Re: Keyframing Effects
by David Johnson 9 months ago
You don't even need keyframes ... just put the effects on Adjustment Layers instead of directly on the footage layer, then set the in points of each Adjustment Layer accordingly.
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| | | |  | Render Manager/Finder discrepancyby David Butterfield 9 months agoFCP 6.06 on a Mac Book Pro w WD 1 TB HD Wanting to free up some disc space I'm looking for help in Render Manager. When I open the render files in Finder, I see approximately 115 GB of files. When I o | Re: Render Manager/Finder discrepancy
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Glad to help, David. I don't know why the manual warns against using Finder to delete render files ... honestly, I didn't even know that it did ... just that I've been doing it that way for years and
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| | | |  | Film Maker, Cinematographer, Videographer?by shane jenny 9 months agoI film cinematic wedding videos (LOL) Which one am I!!! I'm actually serious. Can I call myself a film maker What exactly IS a film maker Can a videographer call himself a cinematographer Help me unde | | | | |
| | | | | HD Stock footageby alex dinnin 9 months agoAnyone know where I could get some good HD stock footage of Fire Thanks in advance Alex | Re: HD Stock footage
by David Johnson 9 months ago
A Google search for "HD stock footage fire" ... returns all the standards (Getty,Corbis, etc.), as well as some cheap alternatives ... which is best for you depends on your needs ... in other words, w
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| | | | | slow playbackby alex passarello 9 months agoalrite. ive had after effects cs5 for about a month now. ever since i purchased it ive had this same problem. when i add it to the render que and it starts to render it does fine and gets through the | Re: slow playback
by David Johnson 9 months ago
http: forums.adobe.com thread 684381 When all else fails, read the manual ... or, at least search the forums or the web.
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| | | | | H.264 Pro Recorderby Dave Johnson 9 months agoAbout the H.264 Pro Recorder, I posed this question in the thread the comments below are from before realizing it's an old thread and will probably never get answered. So, could someone clarify the in | Re: H.264 Pro Recorder
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Thank you for clarifying, Heinz. I understand what you mean now and agree that both good-quality de-interlacing and interlaced encoding would make the units meet a wider a range of needs.
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| | | |  | Stuttering playbackby Steven Austin 9 months agoHi, I imported some footage (native M2T) & transcoded to Pro Res. They usually play back OK in the viewer but once loaded to the timeline, appear kind of jittery or "steppy". Sort of like when one cha | Re: Stuttering playback
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Steven Austin If this is a RAM playback issue why then would some of the files I export also have the same problem Do you mean you're playing back the exports without using RAM Could be a drive speed
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| | | | | Wedding Photogs vs. Videogsby Aaron Cadieux 9 months agoHey guys, On the rare occasion that I video a wedding, I usually find myself in a power-struggle with the wedding photographer. Photographers seem to automatically assume that the job they're doing is | Re: Wedding Photogs vs. Videogs
by David Johnson 9 months ago
I've only shot a wedding once to help a friend, but did some mobile DJing while in college to fill in the gaps between club nights so I've been to very many weddings. So, perhaps I can offer a couple
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| | | |  | Blog: Donkey noise in After Effects?by Ross Daly 9 months ago I may be going crazy (probably in fact) but last night I was up super late rendering a bunch of things out of After Effects and for some reason they were all failing. I had 5 or 6 renders fail, and t | Re: Donkey noise in After Effects?
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Yeah, I think it's a goat or sheep rather than a donkey. The (customizable) render ok and render fail SFX have always been part of AE so they're pretty easy to recreate ... just render something. If y
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| | | |  | Creating a flipping calendar on the wall.by Kevin Pinga 9 months agoHello people. I have a question on how to create a flipping calendar. The idea is to portray going into the future. So here's how I picture it, a woman starts talking in a room, and then the camera mo | | | | |
| | | | | Eeep! Project due and render keeps crashing!by Kim Taylor 9 months agoOk, so got a slight situation over here! My project is due first thing tomorrow, and all I need to do is render the project. I thought this would be pretty straight-forward as I've done all the creati | | | | |
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| | | | | Rendering Questionby Max Jackson 9 months agoHi CC, This is my second major project (for me at least) using FCPro (v.7). Every time I take a clip insert it, nudge it, etc. it then says 'unrendered'. I can't touch any clip in my sequence without | Re: Rendering Question
by David Johnson 9 months ago
It sounds like your sequence settings don't match your footage. Try starting a new sequence with any random preset, then drag your footage into the timeline and, when you get the window that asks if y
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| | | |  | Moving large filesby Willy Lavendel 9 months agoHi Creative Cows, I'm continually running into a problem that needs more attention. As we know FAT32 cannot moves files larger than 4 gigs and it's making my life harder. I've been using Path Finder t | Re: Moving large files
by David Johnson 9 months ago
I was simply trying to be helpful by offering more accurate information that you have so I don't at all appreciate your condescending tone. I could care less whether you use Fat32 or consider yourself
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| | | |  | paint on pdfby Steven Tyler 9 months agoIs it possible to paint on a pdf in After Effects. I'm guessing not since I can't seem to make it work. Anybody know of a workaround. I want to be able to paint on the pdf document and I'm loathe to c | Re: paint on pdf
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Oops, sorry ... didn't think of it that way since I tend to leave rasterization off until render time.
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| | | | | Reveal Image using maskby Callum Wilkes 9 months agoHello, i am working on a project and am stuck on this one thing it is nearly finished, But ... i want to reveal an image using the radio waves effect is that possible i will upload the video when proj | Re: Reveal Image using mask
by David Johnson 9 months ago
If I understand correctly what you're asking, just use radio waves on a shape layer , then use that as a track matte for the footage you want to reveal.
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| | | | | How to do the SNL title effectby Brian Darwin 9 months agoAnyone know a way (without a plugin) to create the effect of the SNL titles There's an example here at the 10sec mark: http: vimeo.com 13669118 It almost looks like 3D colors do when you're not wearin | Re: How to do the SNL title effect
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Devon Hennig "looks like 3D colors do when you're not wearing the glasses" That's exactly what it is ... just animate separating the color channels and putting them back together.
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| | | |  | Favorite Plugins???by Ginny Landers 9 months agoMy company just asked me how I want to "trick" out my new edit suite. Awesome! So I wanted to know...what is your favorite set of plugins for FCP After Effects I can't wait to explore the answers! Gin | Re: Favorite Plugins???
by David Johnson 9 months ago
First, I have to mention that my preference has always been to do all effects, animations, grading, compositing, etc. in AE and use my NLE only as an NLE. So, I almost exclusively use plugins in AE an
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| | | | | Motion graphics cost questionby chad ron 10 months agoHello, I am looking to have a 30 second intro created that is close to this kind of look: http: www.templatemonster.com after-effects-intros 33115.html But I want something original. I found a freelan | Re: Motion graphics cost question
by David Johnson 9 months ago
I know it's been a while, but I just now happened across this thread again. Only from seeing Stephen's reply, I realized that, despite the "I want something original" wording of the initial question,
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| | | |  | Squeeze 6.5by John Watts 10 months agoWe have v6.5 Squeeze on a relatively new and powerful Windows 7 Professional PC. 2 x quad core and 12 gigs of ram. It's an Avid Symphony that came with Sorenson Squeeze. It seems like a really unstabl | Re: Squeeze 6.5
by David Johnson 9 months ago
I have Squeeze 7 on all my machines now, but had 6 and 6.5 on all of them (both Macs and PCs) until not too long ago and never experienced any instability or poor output issues whatsoever. However, I
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| | | |  | Audio settings for web in Squeeze 6.5by Martin Jordan 9 months agoWe edit in FCP 7 and all our music & voice overs are 48KHz. I noticed in the Squeeze presets for QT, Progressive Streaming that the audio is by default 44100. If I change that to 48000, stereo, AAC (m | Re: Audio settings for web in Squeeze 6.5
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Martin Jordan "If I change that to 48 ... will the audio stream fine over multiple kinds of devices & Desktops " Yes, but it's a waste to do that, which is why the defaults are 44. It's a waste of fi
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| | | | | How Do I Keyframe a Clip's Position?by Isaiah Bugarin 9 months agoI'm trying to edit 2 videos in AE. I want to add a cool transition from video1 to video2 in which the camera turns and looks at a window and video2 is set in the window. In order to do this, though, I | Re: How Do I Keyframe a Clip's Position?
by David Johnson 9 months ago
I agree with Michael that what your trying to do is unclear, but will try to answer anyway ... set a position keyframe for video2 at the first position, change it to a "hold keyframe", move the playhe
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| | | |  | Scaling two layer with one Nullby Anthony Dupsta 9 months agoCan some one point me in the right direction, thank you. I have two layers. I have both parented to a null. When I scale the null I want both to scale but I want the second to scale at half the value. | Re: Scaling two layer with one Null
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Anthony Dupsta "while my foreground is scaling by BG layer needs to have an exponential scale" I guess I should've followed my first mind and stayed the heck out of the expressions forum. That said,
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| | | | | How to reduce gradient jumpsby Mark Gin 10 months agoHi, Got this problem with my t2i (after some post enhancement): http: img694.imageshack.us img694 7317 mvi0911dnxhd0001116.jpg How can I at least reduce these transition jumps (in post - AE) so they w | Re: How to reduce gradient jumps
by David Johnson 9 months ago
Mark Gin "I haven't done this before because I didn't know the anomaly's name." Yes, I suppose "gradient jumps" wouldn't return many search results. ; ) At the same time, my curiosity to know what a
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| | | | | How to create Effects sawn in below videoby vipati hitesh 10 months agoHi Friends, I have After Effects cs5 and I am learning it myself by watchig Online tutorials.Specially I want to learn video effects used in Indian Wedding videos. Below is the link of that video. Lin | | | | |
| | | | | View from an absolute video novice.....by Gary Cole 10 months agoHi, this is my first post to this forum. I am not a video editor, but have 25 year's experience as a music producer - mostly classical. My facility is entirely Mac-based, but don't use Logic. I do use | | | | |
| | | | | equipment questionby Kip Cole 10 months agoNeed some suggestions as to best, affordable computer options. I'm getting ready to purchase a Mac Pro for editing. I'm a new, small production company with limited cash flow. I'll be loading FCP Stud | Re: equipment question
by David Johnson 10 months ago
Kip Cole "I'm getting ready to purchase a Mac Pro for editing. I'm a new, small production company with limited cash flow. I'll be loading FCP Studio 3. I also have an external AJA IOHD box for input
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| | | | | My new PCby Denis Stefanides 10 months agoHello, here is my new PC for working in CS5 AAE, PREMIERE, CINEMA4D... What you think :) b MB b : MSI P67A-C45 b CPU b : Intel Core i7-2600K, 3.40GHz b CPU freezer b : Coolink Corator DS b RAM b : Kin+1 | Re: My new PC
by David Johnson 10 months ago
Building computers isn't my bag, but I can certainly tell you that 8Gb of RAM is about the minimum you'd want to have for a 64-bit O S and the programs you mentioned. If you can't afford more RAM now,
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| | | | | work flow?by kyle weatherby 10 months agoI am new to adobe and new to digital medium in general, I am working on my very first project, I am trying to find the best work flow and how to execute the workflow when using priemier pro and after | Re: work flow?
by David Johnson 10 months ago
The issues you're having don't sound like a specific question that can be answered in a forum post. Richard's books are very good and you will likely need them ... or at least some of the very many re
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| | | |  | Interview Chairby Rich Rubasch 10 months agoLooking for options of the best chair for studio use for interviews. I envision an armless chair with lower back support and a decent amount of vertical adjustment, with swivel but has a swivel lock. | Re: Interview Chair
by David Johnson 10 months ago
I have the same need, but have always had trouble finding anything suitable. Might anyone be able to provide a link to someplace that online that sells good chairs For example, do you see anything you
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| | | | | Corrupt .MOV files?by Braedan Herrera 1 year agoI am about to edit a music video for a client and I just retrieved all the footage from their hard drive. They shot on the Canon 5D and 7D. All the footage looks fine except in one folder there is the | Re: Corrupt .MOV files?
by David Johnson 10 months ago
I forgot to mention ... if you don't want to go the route of just asking the client for good files, you could try importing the files into any software that uses the QuickTime engine and re-encoding (
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