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| | | | | | Can't rid my sequence of AMA clipsby Paul Dougherty 1 week agoI'd like to consolidate a finished sequence but keep hitting a wall AMA clips. (MC5.0.3) I get this error message "Some of the items selected for Consolidate contained foreign compression types, which | Re: Can't rid my sequence of AMA clips
by Paul Dougherty 1 week ago
Though I never got to the bottom of why the Transcode sequence would leave so many clips as AMA, I did achieve some closure on the issue. I wound up selecting the AMA clips left over on the mostly tra
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| | | | | Woeful AMA links situationby Paul Dougherty 2 weeks agoMy AMA links got messed while outputting the final ProRes master. I hooked up a 5th fw drive to my MC5 (5.0.3) system, and was probably a third of the way exporting the Qt but when I came back in the  | Re: Woeful AMA links situation
by John Pale 2 weeks ago
I usually would not recommend upgrading mid project, but Avid MC 6.5 is FAR more robust at relinking AMA clips. Maybe download the trial, if you get desperate. It's fully functional for thirty days.
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| | | | | transcoding to ProRes rather than DNxby Paul Dougherty 3 weeks agoI had a project recently where there was a lot of Canon footage to be transcoded. Several dozen cards for a rush-rush job, I wanted to transcode in the Avid to (native) DNx. But speedy turnaround was | | | | |
| | | | | AE character animation templates?by Paul Dougherty 3 months agoIn a client story board I'm being asked to place a photo of someone's head on a walking cartoon character. After a bit of Googling I haven't found much. Any leads out there on such (stock) customizabl | | | | |
| | | | | OT - video file deliverablesby Paul Dougherty 6 months agoThis pattern keeps coming up and makes me wonder what others are doing or saying about this situation. If I finish an HD video (not for broadcast or cablecast), I'll usually want to give the client tw | Re: OT - video file deliverables
by Joseph Owens 6 months ago
Paul Dougherty "-they implied they do not have that kind of expertise in-house.. which can't be true." Oh, its true. Really creative people have been known to make a virtue of having no technical fou
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| | | | | radio wave animation questionby Paul Dougherty 6 months agoHi, I'm trying to do radio wave animation based on this static sample and have worked up this bull's eye - how too I get to concentric circles like this Thanks in advance. Paul | | | | |
| | | | | OT motion-banding artifactby Paul Dougherty 6 months agoThis is a follow-on post to my pulldown issue - regarding this same YouTube video, I'm gathering that the ghosting is 'baked into the cake' - I'd like to pivot to another issue that is probably field | Re: OT motion-banding artifact
by Paul Dougherty 6 months ago
Hey Darby, This jpeg pretty well tells the story. Note these are not displaces scan lines but bands of lines. You can't see the banding* in the YT Another way of describing it would be serrated mesh,
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| | | | | removing pulldown in a mystery videoby Paul Dougherty 6 months agoI'm trying to work with a YouTube clip for an in-house rip-o-matic that is 23.98. It has the ghosted "combination" frames that I associate with pull-down in a film transfer. (my edit is 29.9) I know l | | | | |
| | | | | OT - Quicktime Player Pro & anomaliesby Paul Dougherty 7 months agoIt's understood that Quicktime Player Pro is better, more accurate than the default Qt Player. I have some HD ProRes files I made in FCP from a prosumer camera card that on a client's 2 yr old Mac (de | | | | |
| | | | | false warning about display?by Paul Dougherty 8 months agoI'm getting this warning about a Samsung E1920 display connected to a MacBook pro - I prefer to make this display the primary finder desktop and use the actual MacBook as a ancillary 2nd monitor "This | Re: false warning about display?
by Paul Dougherty 8 months ago
How about this angle... the aspect ratio is a non issue ( ) My Samsung E1920 (20") does come up short with a height of 768 vs FCP's desired 800. (and I can see that really does shortchange real estate
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| | | | | 3d turn w exaggerated perspective?by Paul Dougherty 2 years agoI'd like to do a 3d turn (possibly revealing something on the flip side) with more more exaggerated perspective than seems to be available in Basic 3d or other standard FCP filters & transitions that | | | | |
| | | | | update or refresh nested sequences?by Paul Dougherty 2 years agoI'm starting to use nested sequences more and was wondering if a change is made in a Seq (in AE land a pre-comp) will the change ripple or update to those instances where this sequence is nested in an | | | | |
| | | | | slight pulsing & jitter filterby Paul Dougherty 2 years agoI just tried out the CGM aged film filter (free!) I'm less interested in aged film per se than in getting a slightly pulsing (levels or glow) and spacial jitter I get using Wiggler in AE. CGM aged fil | | | | |
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| | | | | Apple Keynote-style 3d transtions.by Paul Dougherty 2 years agoI've been asked to do a (video) slide show that is a follow-up to another one that employed some great looking 3d (or 2.5d) transitions that were exported from Apple Keynote. One signature of the effe | Re: Apple Keynote-style 3d transtions.
by Paul Dougherty 2 years ago
This is great everyone, thanks so much. The need for video "slideshows" is a evergreen but a moving target as to new, innovative and hopefully classy ways of doing it in volume. (If that's not a contr
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| | | | | what does silo mean?by Paul Dougherty 2 years agowhat does silo mean I'm from TV and I know it's like a mask but working with print people now and I'm not quite clear. No good answers after googling. Thanks, Paul | | | | |
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| | | |  | Error: Making File Referenceby ScottieB 7 years agoI have a strange problem with AE. Whenever I try to open a recent project from the file menu (File--- Open Recent) I get the following error: "After Effects error: Making File reference -- file not fo | Re: Error: Making File Reference
by Paul Dougherty 2 years ago
I got this error, it seemed to be the result of renaming the Western Digital drive the project lived on. Never would have figured it out but for this post on an Adobe forum & someone else pointing to
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| | | | | Final cut pro / AE / XDcamEX... HELP :(.by Jan-Willem Schram 3 years agoHi guys, Let me first apologize if I posted this thread in the wrong forum, but the problem I'm facing covers both Final cut pro, Adobe after effects and the XDcam EX format so this forum was my best | Re: Final cut pro / AE / XDcamEX...
by Paul Dougherty 2 years ago
I got this error, it seemed to be the result of renaming the Western Digital drive the project lived on. Never would have figured it out but for this post on an Adobe forum & someone else pointing to
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| | | | | batch process many multi-page pdfsby Paul Dougherty 3 years agoUsing any recent version of Photoshop, how would I batch process many multi-page pdfs and convert each page into jpegs When I open a pdf manually I have to manually select one of many pages, not sure | Re: batch process many multi-page pdfs
by Paul Dougherty 3 years ago
I've done some research and came across some promising leads (not using PS) but they haven't panned out. I'd prefer to do this in Photoshop but I don't know how automate telling it to open & save *eve
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| | | | | XDcam dumb questionby Paul Dougherty 3 years agoThis from an editor.. can all the Sony XDcams shoot standard-def DVcam I ask because field tapes I'm getting for SD deliverable jobs are increasing shot HD but I don't own an HD deck. For bonus points | Re: XDcam dumb question
by Paul Dougherty 3 years ago
So this isn't an XDCAM question at all Well yes.. can all the Sony XDcams shoot standard-def DVcam Question answered and I'm grateful. In the case of the XDcam job there was no out-of-house transfer
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| | | | | slightly OT - strobbing on some assetsby Paul Dougherty 3 years agoThis is a little off-topic but I'm getting strobbing on action (wrong field dominance ) in some clips (only visible on an NTSC monitor) though I've used the same work flow to export a Qt from an Avid, | | | | |
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| | | | | Chapter Skip Forward strangenessby Paul Dougherty 3 years agoChapter Skip Forward strangeness I'm getting the hang of DVD SP 4 but when playing back the short clip featured on my menu I'm getting strange results using the Chapter Skip Forward button. I reviewed | Re: Chapter Skip Forward strangeness
by Paul Dougherty 3 years ago
Hi Brent, Great stuff, I have my work cut out for me. Right now everything is a separate track (and short - average length 2min). I promise to study up on your suggestion. However it's strange that th
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| | | | | swapping out vid assets w same nameby Paul Dougherty 3 years agoIn a perfect world video assets would only be brought into DVD SP that are really final, but I've had need to swap out versions of the same asset. I've been prepping the assets in Compressor. In an in | Re: swapping out vid assets w same name
by eric pautsch 3 years ago
I has to be the same name but you can change that in DVDSP. Length shouldn't an issue. In your case though I would just erase the asset in DVDSP and import the new assets manually. I only do this if i
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