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| | | | |  | Grab Color from Another Layerby Adam Kois 1 month agoI'm trying to basically create a pixel wipe effects for some footage. Basically rotoscoping out a person and then having pixels move on top of them pulling the same color from the person so it looks l | Re: Grab Color from Another Layer
by ben g unguren 1 month ago
Have you looked at the Mosaic effect That might provide what you need in one go. Not sure if this is helpful, but there is a "Sample Image Expression" animation preset that will return a color based o
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| | | |  | Way to check PPro project for integrity?by Ryan Patch 2 months agoHello - I am working on a rather large documentary project with a fair amount of footage (about 5 gigs). The project file has been growing and growing, and we're at 80 mb now, expanding quicker now th | | | | |
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| | | | | I'm having so much troubleby Ryan Gibson 3 months agoI'm animating still photos for a video project. I've imported a scanned letter, blown it up with Continuous Rasterization and animated it. It renders just fine at 60 fps. Wonderfully smooth. I upload | Re: I'm having so much trouble
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
Yea, it's judder. You need to slow it down, or at least vary the speed, maybe add in a little rotation on the Z axis (like the camera is rolling back and forth a bit), and you should probably add moti
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| | | |  | How to reveal a mask in a layer?by mike cantor 3 months agoHi, I have a layer with 100 odd masks in it. I find it nearly impossible to match the masks as represented by yellow outlines in the comp window with their respective rows in the timeline panel. What | Re: How to reveal a mask in a layer?
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
hmmm... Not sure this will work, but when something is selected, pressing the 'x' key will move your timeline to focus on that layer. Maybe it also focuses on masks Maybe ... (never tried it -- let us
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| | | |  | Premiere Pro On Mac not recognizing AVCHDby Tyler Linden 3 months agoI have Premiere Pro 5.5 on my iMac, and my raw videos are AVCHD (.mts). When I try to import the videos into Premiere it says the compression type is unknown. Is it the mac, or premiere Is there a way | | | | |
| | | |  | Most rookie question ever. export?by Marcel Lee 3 months agoHi all, for the last 3 years i have been editing with FCP 7, but as i am totally disappointed with FCPX, I have decided to go back to my roots in Premiere. Its been a while but native editing of avchd | Re: Most rookie question ever. export?
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
If you have FCP installed you can still use prores. But a lot of other editors (myself included) are using DNxHD from AVID instead. It's cross-platform and free. And it looks great. Ben Unguren Motion
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| | | |  | Workflow with Prores and PCby Mónica Calderón 3 months agoHello, I have an AE project with ProRes footage made on a Mac. My illustrator and animator has a PC. He can't see the footage. How can we make it work We have a tight deadline for the project. Thanks. | Re: Workflow with Prores and PC
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
I think they just need to install the latest free version of quicktime player. It should be able to play prores-encoded files. Or do an encode of everything with the Animation codec, or even as an ima
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| | | | | Need it to rain beesby Joshua McCray 3 months agoDoing a project for school and I need to make it rain bees - they need to fall from the sky in droves ... any help would be much appreciated. | Re: Need it to rain bees
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
If all you have is what's built-in to AE, I'd suggest the "CC Particle World" effect. You'll need two layers -- one solid that fills the entire screen, and one CUT OUT image of a bee (cut it out in ph
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| | | |  | premiere pro timelapse questionby Ben Oliver 3 months ago2 Questions. 1. I am producing a few timelapse shots for a client, and I have a rather standard Sony handicam camera. It shoots AVCHD, and is model number hdr-cx700. For what it is, it is pretty amazi | | | | |
| | | | | after effect video blury after importby Christopher Ortiz 3 months agoSo I cut some clips up in premiere pro and exported as media with QuickTime h.264 so I couldnget. .mov files. Now when I import it into after effect it comes out blurry and fuzzy. The video looks fine | Re: after effect video blury after import
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
You are interpreting your footage incorrectly. Right click on the footage in the project window, choose Interpret Footage -- Main... and change the fields setting from "lower field first" to "none". O
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| | | | | HUGE Offset effect rendering problemby wes gilliland 3 months agoI am trying to do a cheesy Slot machine look for some text and am using the offset effect. When I ram preview it does exactly what I want it to, but, when I render it starts and then freezes about a s | Re: HUGE Offset effect rendering problem
by ben g unguren 3 months ago
This is a short-term solution, but if you are able to get a full-quality RAM preview, then press command+NUM0 (like you would for a typical RAM preview, but adding CMD, or CTRL on a PC). This will loa
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| | | | | Camera Lens Blurby Isaac Tallack 4 months agoI have a video and I want to create focus on a area close to the camera but the background to be blurry. I have watched a video from Adobe about it but it only explains what the effects does and not h | Re: Camera Lens Blur
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
The "blur map" is a greyscale image, where the brightness of the image varies with the distance of the thing in the shot from the camera. Usually these are generated from a 3d app, like Cinema 4D, to
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| | | | | Expression for constant speed?by ben g unguren 4 months agoHi all I have over a hundred paths being carved out with multiple instances of the Write-on effect with the 2D Brush Position being animated. Some of these paths are quite long, others pretty short, a | Re: Expression for constant speed?
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
Works perfectly! You are singularly awesome, Mr. Ebberts. Your use of linear in there is great - and I can just swap in "ease" instead to soften the motion. Very helpful; that taught me a lot! Ben Ung
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| | | |  | ValueAtTime on Scale propertyby Jamil Yamani 4 months agoHI all I have been using Dan Ebberts code modified for Colour and various other things with great success. I have tried applying it to a Scale property and it did not work. The scale value once the ex | Re: ValueAtTime on Scale property
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
Scale is multi-dimensional, so you need to produce 2 or 3 numbers (3 if the 3D switch is enabled) instead of 1. It's easy enough to do; just assign a variable to the last line: a = thisComp.layer(1).t
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| | | |  | PrPro export to quicktime. HDby Alan Stephens 4 months agoI need to export from PrPro CS5.5 to a quicktime file (.mov) so I can import into a Finalcut 7 project. I'm using the great green screen in PRPro, but need to finish a FC project. PrPro or media encod | Re: PrPro export to quicktime. HD
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
Well, your source timeline is 29.97, so it makes sense that a 29.97 export will look better than one at 24. It would work better to export at 29.97, then take it into AE and try to resample the frames
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| | | |  | Need to speed up my encoding!by Victor Lin 4 months agoSystem specs: Core i5 M480 2.67GHz 8GB RAM 128GB SSD Radeon HD5650 Shooting 1080p video with my Canon T2i 15minute video My clips have Fast Color Correction applied, fade out transitions, sharpening, | Re: Need to speed up my encoding!
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
Here are some possible issues: 1. Going from h264 to H264 ain't working. Try encoding to a higher quality codec, like prores or animation or photojpeg. See if it will do it any faster (just do a 15-se
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| | | | | Mocha 2.3 - missing Motion Blurby Nicholas Montgomery 4 months agoHeyhey I've got an older version of Mocha, I guess (v 2.3.0, installed with CS5.5). Was instructed on how to use motion blur for my mattes when they're animated, however where I was told to find it (u | Re: Mocha 2.3 - missing Motion Blur
by ben g unguren 4 months ago
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but I don't think MochaAE ever included MB capabilities. The standard method I have used is to use timewarp after the fact to add motion blur (set the remap spee
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| | | | | PPro CS5 Mac Audio Playback issuesby Nick Passick 4 months agoI'm having playback issues from inside program, exports are perfectly fine. The issues are audio cutting in and out or it will playing random parts of the track further in the timeline. i.e. it will s | | | | |
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| | | |  | Creating Grain for use in FCP?by andrew smith 5 months agoHello, I am grading a film in DaVinci Resolve and need to add some grain and have control of that grain in FCP as an overlay - I also want to have some nice varieties of grain for possible use in Reso | Re: Creating Grain for use in FCP?
by ben g unguren 5 months ago
I agree with Angie that you will get the best results working everything in AE. That said, a good approach to this is to make a 50% grey solid, apply grain noise to it until you're happy, render it to
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| | | |  | Preferred editing codecby Jason Brown 6 months agoSo in fcp, I use prores, in avid it's dnxhd. What is premiers editing codec If its dvcprohd, is there a version of that codec that uses square pixels I'm very new to premier pro. | Re: Preferred editing codec
by ben g unguren 6 months ago
Those are really good points, Jeff. Especially for folks coming from FCP-land, matching your timeline codec to your footage is absolutely critical. From what you're saying, it sounds like this is less
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| | | | | Odd Time Lineby Johnny Hizz 6 months ago So this has happend to my timeline. That huge gap over top, I tried moving it up and down and I got nothing. Can someone tell me if this is a easy fix. It probably is I'm just being a noob.+1 | Re: Odd Time Line
by ben g unguren 6 months ago
Are you talking about those extra audio tracks Right-click on the left side of the timeline, choose "add delete tracks" then tick the box to delete audio tracks and choose the option that says to remo
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| | | | | Cow is blocked at my office networkby ben g unguren 7 months agoI don't think I've done anything wrong... But I had Chrome set up to load a number of Cow forums upon opening -- maybe the system thought I was up to no good. Here's my current IP at the office: 67.17 | Re: Cow is blocked at my office network
by ben g unguren 6 months ago
Thanks for checking Abraham -- it's back again. I think it was because I was opening multiple forums at once when I launched Chrome, it probably set off an alarm with the ISP. So I'm doing it individu
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| | | |  | Identifying codecsby Jeff Walsh 7 months agoBare with me as I'm a recent Final Cut Refugee. I can't seem to identify an assets codec. Sure appreciate anyones help with that-thanks I'm using Premiere Pro CS5.5 | Re: Identifying codecs
by ben g unguren 7 months ago
Glad you "tried the obvious avenues" prior to posting your question. You wrote that you were trying to identify an asset's codec. Editing with mpeg2, mt2, mpeg4 etc is rare at best, so I imagine most
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| | | |  | Newb question on ingesting AVCHD filesby Mark Welch 7 months agoJust jumped over from FCP. I am ingesting AVCHD from my AF-100. Audio channels 1 & 2 are being brought in as a stereo pair. In FCP there was a simple workaround. In Premier, I navigate up to Clip Audi | | | | |
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