Nathan Lehner - Creative COW

Magic Bullet Looks not loading preview clip from Premier Pro CS6
by Nathan Lehner 1 month ago
I've been using Magic Bullet looks for about 9 months now but all of a sudden it is not loading a preview image when I send a clip from Premier. All I get is a black square where the image should be m

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Re: Magic Bullet Looks not loading preview clip from Premier Pro CS6
by Nathan Lehner 4 weeks ago
Yes, I had that issue where it takes a frame from a different clip altogether as well! Then it eventually just turned black on me. I received a message from Red Giant today that the issue was resolved

compression stalling out when trying to burn blu-ray
by Nathan Lehner 2 years ago
I'm trying to send about 1hr 45min of HDV footage (wedding) to a Blu-Ray disk. From the timeline I'm using the "Share" option in the file menu and sending strait to my Blu-ray burner. It starts the co

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Re: compression stalling out when trying to burn blu-ray
by Nathan Lehner 2 years ago
Alright, got that figured out. Thanks. Unfortunately now it failed saying "Volume's file size limit exceeded" I have the average bit rate set at 22 and max at 30 and that says it should fit 132 minute

EX1 SDI out issues
by Nathan Lehner 2 years ago
I tried to use the SDI out (for the first time) for a live concert shoot and the camera was not sending an image I tried going into the main board first, when that didn't work tried going strate into

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Re: EX1 SDI out issues
by Nathan Lehner 2 years ago
I remember switching the video output on and off a few times and that didn't do it. 100% sure I was using the SDI out the back of the camera, not component out the side. I'm wondering about that firmw

no preview on sony hvr mrc1 when transferring to FCP
by Charlie Inman 4 years ago
When I log and transfer with my sony hvr mc1 to get the footage off the compact flash cards (it's hdv 1050i), the preview window is blank, and says preview unsupported for tis format, which makes it h

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Re: no preview on sony hvr mrc1 when transferring to FCP
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
Ever find anything out with getting the preview window working I'm having the same issue. . . I'd love to be able to set a few in's and out's on the clips. thanks, nate

Audio and video not in sync after compression
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
Hi everyone, When I compress a sequence to an mpeg4, the audio and video in the mpeg 4 file are not in sync Am I missing a step A setting messed up -Captured HDV footage to prores 422 -Edit in prores

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Re: Audio and video not in sync after compression
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
Problem solved. after hours of trial and error randomly changing compression setting it turns out that the key frame interval needs to be set to 30. It is set at 15 on the compressor template. thanks

poor slow motion quality with prores 422 HQ
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
I have been experimenting with the different Apple prores codecs. I just logged and captured 1080i HD footage to the 422HQ codec. . . it looks pretty good at normal speed but there are some clips that

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Re: poor slow motion quality with prores 422 HQ
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
OK, my sequence settings did not match my footage. Thanks also for the Motion optical flow tip. Now we're looking much better. . . the revised version: http: www.youtube.com watch v=gJiWyjH9lo8 Ahhh,

Inconsistent Audio levels on final DVD
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
I just burned my first DVD using FCP, compressing HD footage to SD in Compressor (60min best quality) and AIFF music files to ac3, built, formatted and burned in DVD Studio Pro. My music audio tracks

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Re: Inconsistent Audio levels on final DVD
by Nathan Lehner 3 years ago
Thank you so much! It worked! Audio was consistent and cranking! An FYI for anyone else. . . I duplicated the Dolby 2.0 (90min best quality) setting and made the above changes in the duplicate then sa

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