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| | | | | | Manually Entering Timecodeby Matt Silverman 1 month agoHi, I'm new to Resolve and so far am amazed at how intuitive it has become. One thing that I can't figure out... In the Conform module I want to manually type in the timecode in the Source window to s | | | | |
| | | |  | DPX and Alpha Channel???by melissa kern 3 years agoHI. one more thing. question. I am outputting a title sequence for a film.. and they requested a DPX Seq. when I choose DPX Seq.. the option for RGB + Alpha is grayed out so how do I out put a DPX Seq | | | | |
| | | | | SFMograph - San Francisco User Groupby Matt Silverman 5 years agoWe are about to kick off a new motion graphics visual effects user group here in San Francisco. Adobe has been kind enough to donate their incredible space at 601 Townsend, so our first "SFMograph" ev | | | | |
| | | | | QuickTime Player Questionby Matt Silverman 5 years agoI have exported a Keynote presentation to Quicktime. It works great, allowing me to advance slides with the arrow keys or clicking. However, I can not advance when the current slide plays a QuickTime | | | | |
| | | | | Using DVCPRO HD Footage In AE 7by Andrew Wood 5 years agoI am having some trouble with using movie files in after effects 7. I have imported some HD files which are 960 x 720, i am using multiple shots in the one composition. Only certain movie files are ac | | | | |
| | | |  | AE CS3 Image Buffer Horror / RAM hellby Rafael Metz 5 years agoHi there, I have the complete horror with AE CS3 8.0.2 on my MacPro 2.66 with 5GB RAM. AE has serious problems allocating memory image buffer. The problem occurs when rendering a movie and then (after | | | | |
| | | | | SFMograph - San Francisco User Groupby Matt Silverman 5 years agoWe are about to kick off a new motion graphics visual effects user group here in San Francisco. Adobe has been kind enough to donate their incredible space at 601 Townsend, so our first "SFMograph" ev | | | | |
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| | | | | Kona Codec and DVCProHDby Matt Silverman 6 years agoIf the AJA codecs are installed in OSX, DVCProHD clips captured via firewire are severely lifted when opened in After Effects. Black levels seem to have setup applied. Very odd... took us a while to f | Re: Kona Codec and DVCProHD
by Matt Silverman 6 years ago
I don't have the hardware (which is why I didn't call support). I should have phrased my question better... My initial question was whether this is a software only issue or does this happen when the h
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| | | | | Need AE Artistsby Matt Silverman 6 years agoIf you are in the San Francisco bay area (ie. need to work from our studio), please send a reel to the address below. Thanks, Matt Silverman Creative Director Phoenix Editorial Designs 190 Pacific Ave | | | | |
| | | | | Software MPEG2 encodersby Matt Silverman 6 years agoHi, I have heard that there are 3rd party software alternatives to the Apple MPEG2 encoder which can encode much faster (ie. almost RT). Anyone have any suggestions Thanks, Matt Silverman | Re: Software MPEG2 encoders
by Michael Sacci 6 years ago
don't ever remember seeing anything listed as faster than compress while doing a better job. To speed up compressor use CBR encoding from a Ref (self contained) movie file.
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| | | |  | Panasonic's 720p 23.98 - a fake formatby aaronowen 6 years agoSo DVCPro HD's 720p format running at 23.98 fps has been the bane of my existence lately because its not a real format. The ATSC spec says that all 720p material MUST run at either 59.94 or 60.00 prog | | | | |
| | | | | Luminance Shift with 10bit RGBby Matt Silverman 6 years agoI am working in AE comping greenscreen plates shot with a sony f950 directly into FCP using the a Kona with the Kona 10bit 4:4:4 codec. When I switch AE to 16bit the image gets lifted. I wrote to supp | | | | |
| | | | | Decklink 5.9by Mike Procunier 6 years agoI was disappointed that Decklink 5.9 still won't support more than 3GB RAM. I had to remove 2GB from my MacPro to keep my system running. When can we expect an upgrade that will allow us to use the fu | | | | |
| | | | | Real Time Targasby Dean DeCarlo 6 years ago I'm using a bunch of Targa sequences on a time line and they playback fine AFTER the disks sit and crunch for a while. Often if I adjust something again it crunches. I have a 300MB sec. array so I'm | Re: Real Time Targas
by Matt Silverman 6 years ago
You need to be in a qt format for decklink to work. Check out their framelink utility to work with image sequences as a qt... instead of targa just render dpx (better bit depth than targa), then mount
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| | | | | P2 Wont mountby Matt Silverman 6 years agoI borrowed a P2 camera from a friend. I put the P2 Chip into a PB G4, and it shows up in the Mac Menu telling me the PC ard is running, but it never mounts on the desktop. I am running the latest FCP5 | | | | |
| | | | | Boujou Camera looks badby Matt Silverman 6 years agoHi, I have a shot which was tracked in boujou then the camera was imported into Maya. I built a bunch of poly models in using the default perspective view. When I change to the boujou camera view all | | | | |
| | | |  | 720p60 23.98 footage to HD Deckby Matt James 7 years agoI'm so confused and of course its at the end of the day when the brain is tired any way. I'm a freelance editor and know FCP very well. I have not had to use Cinema Tools Pulldowns or anything like th | | | | |
| | | | | DVCPRO HD 720p60 to 10-bitby guiser 7 years agoHello All, Trying to convert DVCPRO HD 720p60 24fps to uncompressed 10-bit 29.97 and still be able to preserve the aspect ratio. letter box or no letter box. In the end this is going to d-beta. We wan | Re: DVCPRO HD 720p60 to 10-bit
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
We use After Effects for this. Export the QT ref out of FCP and import into AE. Go to interpret footage and change the default pixel aspect ratio from the DVCProHD setting to square pixels. Drop this
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| | | | | removing tracking marks from videoby Migelowsky 7 years agoHi, tracking marks were used to impose this tatoo on an arm : http: www.miguelambriz.net cow afx.html the tracking was great, but how can we remove the dots , I know of a filter for combustion called | Re: removing tracking marks from video
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
You could paint it out frame by frame, but chances are this will not be consistent. Instead you should always try to comp it out first. AE can not track masks without a work-around. Here is how I do t
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| | | |  | Help with tracking 2D flare to 3D null?by Greg Neumayer 7 years agoHi there, I know I've read something on this subject, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Can someone shed some LIGHTor POINT me in the right direction before my temper FLARES and leaves me NULL (yuk, | | | | |
| | | | | Becoming a Proper Colouristby JHaughey 7 years agoI have been an editor for about six years, and in that time I've done quite a bit of grading in FCP and After Effects. I never really took myself seriously as a colourist, working with such a set-up. | Re: Becoming a Proper Colourist
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
For traditional color theory, I highly recommend these two books. Both will help you understand the psychological aspects of color. The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale
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| | | | | What can sabotage XML out of FT?by Bryan Rawles 7 years agoThanks in advance, Apart from illegal characters I have run into a couple of projects where FT imports an XML for FCP, I grade, render, but then am not able to export the XML. Are there certain types | Re: What can sabotage XML out of FT?
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
XML seems to be much better in the current beta. I had issues in previous versions where some shots would have the last frame missing, and this has now gone away. Remember if you do go with one of the
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| | | | | tracker instructions?by Richard Dee 7 years agoI can't seem to get the tracker to work correctly. Can Walter or Bob post more elaborate instructions than the "documentation" provides I know this should be simple but it's not reilable for me. | Re: tracker instructions?
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
Nice to have this Cow forum... the Silicon Color forum is hard to navigate. Trackers are used to automate the mask's position in the geometry room. Typical workflow is: In Secondaries room turn on a S
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| | | |  | BMD and After Effectsby Austin Ray 7 years agoWhen I'm working on some color correction in After Effects, and I'm done. Isn't there any way else to send to SDI than to create a BlackMagic file I hate the DeckLink Software, I just get in trouble. | Re: BMD and After Effects
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
We have older mac based Media Composers which are 8bit. I don't know about newer ones. We usually render out of AE 10bit BM, then play the footage from the FCP timeline and capture live video into the
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| | | |  | Workflow question (progressive/interlaced)by Michiel 7 years agoI'm working on a project where I have: -video footage shot on digibeta, in progressive mode -3d graphics in which the video will be composited in After Effects Now, I don't really know much about prog | | | | |
| | | | | DeckLink HD Pro PCIe went outby Ben the Camera Guy 7 years agoHi, I have a DeckLink HD Pro PCIe connected to a G5 Quad...I wa working one day and the picture just went out...my external monitor tv says there is no signal, but my computer thinks a display is conn | | | | |
| | | | | Rendering to 10bit in AE yields bad filesby CharlieX2 7 years agoyesterday I did some renders to 10bit UC @ 23.98 in After Effects (and also in Shake). QT player plays them back fine... but Deck Control and FCP play back with strobing, jumpy frames, and lots of bla | | | | |
| | | | | Leaving the Pastureby Matt Silverman 7 years agoHello everyone (I mean, hello three people ;-)), I have decided that this forum has run the course, and I will no longer be monitoring the Commotion cow (and curious gFx cow) in the future. I'm glad t | Re: Leaving the Pasture
by J Bills 7 years ago
Cheers, Matt! Thanks for all the great tips and advice. You've been a huge resource for anyone who's stumbled onto this forum over the years. Best of luck to ya in the future if it's a while before I
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| | | | | 10bit 4:4:4 codecby Matt Silverman 7 years agoHi, I received some QT's which were captured with a Kona 2 using the RGB 4:4:4 codec. I do not see this codec available on the AJA website. Can someone email me the codec (OSX)... , or tell me where t | | | | |
| | | | | usageby doug shoha 7 years agoMatt, I will be teaching a course at a local college, and want to use commotion for a variety of reasons. Does pinnacle still sell commotion pro | Re: usage
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
Commotion really isn't integrated into Liquid. The Composite Wizard and Image Lounge plug-ins bundled with Commotion are now bundled into Liquid. These were not part of the core Commotion toolset, but
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| | | | | 10 yard lineby Doug Moody 7 years agoI have been trying to simulate in post the yellow 10 yard line you see superimposed in football games. A simple project I have had is a marching band going down a parade route and the camera pans them | Re: 10 yard line
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
You now need to duplicate your background, put it on the top, then rotoscope or key the people back on top of the line.
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| | | | | Happy New Yearby Jeff Burford 7 years agoWanted to get something going in the New Year, hope all are doing well. Cheers Jeff | Re: Happy New Year
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
Happy new year to everyone still here... I have a feeling that our bandwidth is going to be offset soon. Unless Scott's hints about Avid come true =) -Matt
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| | | | | the man himselfby Giles Chin 7 years agoFound a couple of links, if they haven't already been mentioned. The legend himself. http: www.vfxblog.com vfx 2005 11 scott_squires.html http: effectscorner.blogspot.com Matt, anybody, I will be putt | Re: the man himself
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
No clue yet... I am getting one this week as well. The biggest issue about these machines is that they are all PCIexpress, so older cards will need to be replaced. For me this means getting a new Fibr
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| | | | | Painting in Commotionby Kurt Porter 7 years agoMatt, I used to use commotion to paint out hits on video footage in commotion a few years ago. I now need to do the same on a whole lot of shots. Since Commtion is dead, any suggestions I could buy v4 | Re: Painting in Commotion
by Matt Silverman 7 years ago
AE 6.5 has a a very similar paint interface as Commotion. Many of the techniques, shortcuts and workflow are identical. The only catch is that it is vector based, so if you are working on hi-res plate
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