Rich Media Director for a video production/multimedia development company. | | | | Member Since: February 18th 2003 | | | | |
Friends:  Ed Rakel | | | | | | Looks and CS6 and red barsby Steve Brame 1 week agoRunning the trial of CS6, and I was hoping that Looks would have played better with it, but no. Still get a red bar as soon as the effect is applied. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Looks. We use it extens | Re: Looks and CS6 and red bars
by Steve Brame 15 hours ago
And it's not just playback that suffers. Rendering is almost like I'm back in the Premiere 6.0 days. Just encoded a 2 minute portion of a 30 minute sequence with Looks applied, and only the Warm Cool
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| | | |  | childrens playby Jonny Webb 4 days agoHi, sorry if its in the wrong place but i couldnt find better... I have lots of tape of a childrens outdoor play and i wondering if anyone knows of a good production i could see. It doesnt have to be | Re: childrens play
by Steve Brame 3 days ago
IMHO, if you're limited to just the footage of the play itself, as well as candid shots of people seating, etc, you're going to have a hard time making a professional looking video. Interviews will ge
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| | | |  | Color Picker bug?by Jim Scott 1 week agoI am on a Mac and just installed CS6 yesterday and have noticed what seems like a bug in the Premiere Pro color picker. When making a color matte, or trying to change the color of one, the color picke | Re: Color Picker bug?
by Steve Brame 1 week ago
On a PC here it works as expected. Maybe that'll narrow it down. ------------------------------------------- "98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing 'F1'." Steve Brame creative il
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| | | |  | Magic Bullet Looks Workflowby Cassidy C. 1 week agoHello all, Friend just turned me on to Magic Bullet Looks and WOW! What a quick easy way to get a truly pro looking and uniform aesthetic. Great work Red Giant! I am working on a documentary shot on t | Re: Magic Bullet Looks Workflow
by Steve Brame 1 week ago
We use MBL extensively, and after speaking with the folks from Red Giant over the years at NAB, came up with this method. 'Looks' was based upon plain vanilla video. So...we zeroed out all of our in-c
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| | | | | So far so good with CS6 trialby Steve Brame 1 week agoAfter reading about and discussing positive CS6 experiences with others, we decided to go ahead and download the trial. I usually like to wait for a 'dot upgrade', but was really REALLY anxious to try | | | | |
| | | | | CS6 big dissappointmentby Erik Mickelson 2 weeks agoI just did a test between vanilla Boris Continuum key and CS6 native hardware accelerated MPE authorized...Ultra Key. Boris key ripped through the render in 4 minutes. Ultra key still was not done aft | Re: CS6 big dissappointment
by Steve Brame 2 weeks ago
I didn't offer it as a scientific comparison. Sorry, thought I made that clear in my post. My specs are listed in my profile, but I'll copy them here. Asus P6X58D Premium Core i7 950 24GB RAM nVidia Q
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| | | | | AVCHD media namingby Steve Brame 3 weeks agoWith the good news being reported about CS6's greatly improved handling of AVCHD files, I'm hoping that we can finally skip the intermediate transcode to Cineform, saving a literal ton of drive space. | Re: AVCHD media naming
by Steve Brame 3 weeks ago
Deep breaths...... ------------------------------------------- "98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing 'F1'." Steve Brame creative illusions Productions
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| | | | | workflowby Gary Bain 3 weeks agoIn a quandry as to what my workflow should be. I'm using W7, 64 bit, adobe CS5.5 My project is going to use a lot of 8 and 16mm film transferred to ProRes 720p 422 files, uncompressed and sent to me o | Re: workflow
by Steve Brame 3 weeks ago
As a side...please keep me posted. I'd love to see the film!! ------------------------------------------- "98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing 'F1'." Steve Brame creative illus
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| | | | | Software Product Box- Packagingby Randall League 4 weeks agoI have an educational product that is 7 dvds, 2 cds and a 30 page workbook. The dvds and cd's I plan on putting in a 10 dvd jewel case.I looked at "box" packaging companies but they want you to buy 50 | Re: Software Product Box- Packaging
by Steve Brame 4 weeks ago
Ditto to Eric's post. We routinely package DVD's for our productions, and generally no more than 500 dual DVD cases. We have a 10 disc duplicating tower, and a higher end printer for printing the case
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| | | | | Wirecast 4.1.3 crashesby Steve Brame 1 month agoTrying to remain calm... Haven't used Wirecast since 4.0.1, and I updated to 4.1.3 for a show that I'm doing in May. Everything was going well, built all of my shots, then left the studio for a bit. C | Re: Wirecast 4.1.3 crashes
by Steve Brame 1 month ago
Well, nevermind, I guess. I was able to open Wirecast with an old project file, which opened and converted to the new version, but also let me change the setting to not automatically open the last pro
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| | | | | What program works well for this?by Steve Brame 2 months agoNormally I'd opt for Flash or even After Effects for this type of presentation, but was wondering if there was something out there that would be somewhat more adept and faster at it. Oh, and it needs | Re: What program works well for this?
by Steve Brame 2 months ago
Can PowerPoint export in a video format these days Perhaps so. I have all of the above, PowerPoint, AE and Director. Actually, I'd totally forgotten about Director. I lost touch with it when Macromedi
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| | | | | HDV to DVD (Ae to PP to Encore)by Randall League 2 months agoI have a pretty large project, it's an educational course that has a keyed out teacher that I shot with Canon XH A1 in 1080p24. I have added a lot of effects and motion graphics in AE. The total cours | Re: HDV to DVD (Ae to PP to Encore)
by Steve Brame 2 months ago
Randall League "I did some tests and downgrading to a SD comp and rendering it had no effect in render time, it was almost exactly the same as the HD comp." Probably because regardless of a comp's re
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| | | |  | After Effects and Premiere Connectionby Greg Flory 5 months agoI am new to AE, just discovered the magic of Keylight! I create video presentations in Premiere using stills and clips. I have begun to use a local greenscreen video studio. I need help combining AE a | | | | |
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| | | | | error -1309by lyle Pascoe 6 months agoI updated a project and need to re render it but I am getting error message -1309. Can anyone explain what this means or how to fix this. It rendered out fine the first time but now even if I purge th | Re: error -1309
by Steve Brame 6 months ago
I remember that this used to indicate that the file you are attempting to write has gotten too large for your particular file system. It was a result of trying to write to a drive formatted as FAT32,
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| | | | | Problem Keying with Keylight in AEby Hamish Paterson 6 months agoHi there, I'm working on a key in AE using Keylight. I've had good results before, but this time it's not coming out quite as well. I don't know if the footage is partly to blame, the green screen its | Re: Problem Keying with Keylight in AE
by Steve Brame 6 months ago
You might also try changing the order of your effects. Of course Keylight should be first, but the stacking order of the 'Light Wrap' and 'Looks' might be causing an issue. Steve Brame creative illusi
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| | | | | dvd settingsby Gary Barker 6 months agoI have been searching the internet and this forum but cannot find anything that works so I am hoping someone may be able to help... I have a 20 minute video clip, full hd, exported in apple proes 422. | Re: dvd settings
by Steve Brame 6 months ago
"it looks worse than stuff I shot on an sd camera" It's because you are reducing it to SD. DVD is SD...period. There are probably a couple of possibilities for what you are seeing. 1 - You are transco
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| | | | | Turntable video shoot newbieby Erica Behringer 6 months agoI am wanting to create product 360's similar as to seen towards the end of this video http: www.youtube.com user myjustmobile#p u 11 fPRa_3NHLNU although the ones I need to create would be against whi | Re: Turntable video shoot newbie
by Steve Brame 6 months ago
First of all, the stand and Mac in the video are more than likely 3D images, not video. An optimal situation if you are handy with 3D. If you really need to go video, you might want to think the oppos
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| | | | | dltby John Culleton 6 months agoare there any alternatives to Quatrus 4000 8000 DLT systems my old system is about to die and all i have are laptops as an alternative. the DLT's are all SCSI so is there any way to hook them up to a | Re: dlt
by Steve Brame 6 months ago
"No reason to delivery on DLT." Absolutely correct. Seriously...if your replicator requires tape, find another. They're way behind the times. Steve Brame creative illusions Productions
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| | | |  | Adobe Encore 1080p DVD Authoringby Hunter Hempen 6 months agoGreetings, Again, I've read "dumb questions" concerning authoring on here, and mine is similarly dumb since I'm a beginner at this. I've easily burned 720x480p videos to DVDs in the past via Encore, b | | | | |
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| | | |  | Price for this job?by Krissy Carstens 7 months agoHello, I posted a question about a month ago, I sent out my proposal and feel I need more advice. Thanks in advance. I'm a graphic designer but have done some small video projects in the past. I was a | Re: Price for this job?
by Steve Brame 7 months ago
We tend to charge a bit more if the client wants to use employees as 'talent', and once you've shot and edited quality talent as well as employees acting as 'talent', you'll understand why. The shoot
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| | | |  | Here we go again! Same old song and dance.by Bob O'Hearn 8 months agoI have three corporate pieces due tomorrow that the client requested copyrighted contemporary music for the sound tracks. I counseled them on the risk and then they downloaded karaoke versions and tol | | | | |
| | | | | Large 'Play Button' in center of videoby Steve Brame 9 months agoI've noticed that when I drag a FLVPlayback instance on the stage, it initially shows the large "Play Button" in the center, but when I load a source video, the skin takes over and that Play Button di | | | | |
| | | | | Max RAM usage in After FX CS5by Christopher Kechichian 10 months agoHello all, I want to know if there's a way to make after effects CS5 use all the RAM for rendering. I have a macbook pro with 4GB ram and while it renders the max it gets is 58% of RAM usage. I know t | | | | |
| | | |  | Thought I might go to the DVExpo.by Corbin Gross 10 months agoSo I'm wondering if anybody here has gone to DVExpo I've got the opportunity to a trade show every year and I usually go to Photoshop World as my job has been mostly photography and post. But I've bee | Re: Thought I might go to the DVExpo.
by Steve Brame 10 months ago
We went several years ago. If you've been to NAB, DV Expo can be a bit of an anticlimax, except for being in NYC. NAB has been severly scaled down over the past few years, but is still an awesome show
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