I've been working in Broadcast for the past 15 years. I am currently the senior editor of an all french, all sports station. I edit promos, commercials, show opens and anything else cool :-)I currently edit on Nitris Symphony, and use AE CS3 for all compositing | | | | Member Since: April 11th 2001 Location: Pincourt (Montréal) | | | | |
| | | | |  | Which is better for particles?by Christopher Rotter 3 years agoHello, which is better to use for particles, the particle system built within After Effects or Trap Codes I would like to hear some opinions on this subject, please and thank you. Is one more flexible | Re: Which is better for particles?
by mark harvey 3 years ago
I like Particular, as it works in 3d space (you can create the particle effects then take a camera and fly around the particles). I always found Particle playground complicated and very heavy on compu
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| | | |  | Video Importing Problemby Joshua Rosario 4 years ago Hi my name is Joshua I got this issue with AE CS3, and it's that every time i try to import a video file to it, it comes out audio only. I can hear the video but I can't see it. I try diferent format | Re: Video Importing Problem
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Maybe it is a video card issue...have you tried updating the drivers Also, you shouldn't have issues in Ae with AVI files, but the others may be on Dave's infamous list. What video card are you using
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| | | | | AE into FCP - Mixed footageby Michael Nielsen 4 years agoI am having problems importing footage from after effects into FCP. When I do the imported footage is jittery. The AE material is 1280 x 720, sq. px, 23.98fps. The FCP project is 1280 x 720, sq. px, 2 | Re: AE into FCP - Mixed footage
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Unfortunately, I am not too familiar with the ProRes codec...I am an Avid dude....but could you not render out of AE back into the ProRes codec. Also, when you say that it is all footage that you are
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| | | |  | Moving beam of lightby Samuel Gómez 4 years agoHi guys, I'm totally new to this AAE thing, so I was ondering: How can you make an effect including a moving beam of light Something like is shown in this video: http: www.youtube.com watch v=xnNmQOkI | Re: Moving beam of light
by mark harvey 4 years ago
1. 3d stroke should get you most of the way there. this is a plugin from Trapcode. 2. A basic solid layer with a tint effect, fractal noise, and either corner pin motion tracked (I doubt), or hand ani
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| | | |  | Tutorial: Building a Cube World: Part 1by Carl Larsen 4 years ago Adobe After Effects Building a Cube World: Part 1 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Carl Larsen shows you how to create a 360 degree camera-aware environment in After Effects without the us+2 | | | | |
| | | |  | what makes a good editor?by Andrea Mino 4 years agoHi all, as i'm starting to get involved with projects a bit more complex and starting to deal with directors, i start wondering what makes a good editor. I understand that a good editor is somebody th | Re: what makes a good editor?
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I cut commercials and promos for a living....I have done so for the past 10 years. I understand what you are going through in questionning what makes a good editor, as I have been there. As Charlie, l
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| | | |  | Texture Text In AEby Tom Synnott 4 years agoI have some text over Video in AE, I have made it a bit opaque but is there anyway to give it more of a texture so it doesn't seem so slapped on | Re: Texture Text In AE
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Add a little blur and play with transfer modes. You can also create a texture using fractal noise in a precomp, and then layer that over the text and use the text as a track matte to confine the noise
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| | | | | time to current formatby Sylvain Desjardins 4 years agoHey guys, i'm using time to current format for my count down and as the numbers go down the line jerks to the left to make space for the bigger numbers. I forgot how to stop this can someone help | | | | |
| | | |  | Alpha Channel Troubleby Ryan Zernec 4 years agoHey guys, We have Avid Xpress Pro where I work, and for some reason I'm having a lot of trouble importing files that have alpha channel info, like pre-made lower thirds, etc. This stuff imports fine i | Re: Alpha Channel Trouble
by mark harvey 4 years ago
It sounds to me like your alpha is not right...bring the clip into After Effects, if you have it, and check out the alpha....my bet is that the alpha is a full screen....when you are reversing it, it
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| | | | | After Effectsby Jasmine Willis 4 years agoWhat are some great 3rd party plug-ins to use with After Effects | Re: After Effects
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Look down the page at this thread: http: forums.creativecow.net readpost 202 881144 It was answered 10 days ago :-) Best regards MarkMark Harvey Senior Editor Le R seau des sports
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| | | |  | Masked Colour Correctionby Greg Rulfs 4 years ago Hi, I'm using Media Composer 3 and have a question about colour correction. When shooting, we used ND filters that changed certain parts of the image brown. Most significantly, the costumes of our le | Re: Masked Colour Correction
by mark harvey 4 years ago
You could duplicate the track, then apply color correction to correct to the right colors, then add the annimatte filter and keyframe masks....this would allow the color correction to only be applied
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| | | | | text tool CRASH AE7by Matt king 4 years agoPut a fresh install of AE7 on a new HPwx8400 running xp. Everything runs great, untill i choose text tool, as soon as i click on the comp screen AE locks up. nothing works no typing nothing. Any clues | Re: text tool CRASH AE7
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Maybe a corrupted font Do you have Photoshop If so, can you create text with it MarkMark Harvey Senior Editor Le R seau des sports
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| | | | | Would you sell your comps???by Christian Buettner 4 years agoHi everyone, I have a small business related question this time: I have a client, a marketing agency, which I m doing animations for. But I m sort of a subcontractor. So I ve been animating stuff for | Re: Would you sell your comps???
by mark harvey 4 years ago
That is a tough question.... I know here at my work when we do work with outside Post houses that they provide us with their AE projects....but i am pretty sure that this is negociated before the proj
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| | | | | What else is out there othere than AE?by Ansab Khan 4 years agoWhat softwares i can use other tha AE to do special effects. What else is out there in the market which people are using to do special effects. I'm looking for somehitng other than AE because my compu | Re: What else is out there othere than AE?
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Personally I think that AE is pretty much the industry standard....rather than spending money on new apps, I would look at spending the money on updgrading my PC to make AE run faster... Maybe not the
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| | | | | animation keyframes selectionsby Leila Daniel 4 years agoHi, I'm a newbie in AE so, sorry if this is considered as a stupid question. I have 3 or more layers of animation and i need to reposition and scale them. How do i do this at one go like 'onion skin' | Re: animation keyframes selections
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Create a new Null object, then parent all of the layers to that one Null object. Next, move the Null and the children will follow. If you are unsure of parenting, hit F1 and the help will explain it..
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| | | | | Survey about CS4...by Perry Cheng 4 years agoAny one looking to upgrade to CS4 What are your reasons (I am trying very hard to come up with a good excuse to do so... at least for my wife!! Haha... Nothing is ringing...) Perry | | | | |
| | | | | keylight and poor picture qualityby Drew Mortensen 4 years agoI'm attempting to do a fairly simple key, and having many problems. I filmed using a Sony Z1U (DV) at our school's green screen studio. I brought the footage into AE CS2 and using Keylight, I removed | Re: keylight and poor picture quality
by mark harvey 4 years ago
If the dots are in the subject (not the edges), there is a replace method in the key effect....choose original source as replacement method (I believe by default it is set to solid colour)... MarkMark
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| | | | | Memory Issuesby Leah Chapman 4 years agoI'm having some issues with memory while running Avid MC. I've been working on this machine for about a week, and all was well in the beginning. Now it's running like molasses and I keep getting error | Re: Memory Issues
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I would load up the task manager while Avid is running (if on a PC...I don't know if there is a Mac equivalent) and see what is running and how memory is being used. Also, try opening a new project, m
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| | | | | Mojo SDby Sean Davison 4 years agoI have to Media Composer 2.8's with Mojo SDI. A client wants to finish an HD Project with me that is DVCPro HD and XDCam originated (all already Digitised) With the edit work ok with the Mojo SDI's mo | Re: Mojo SD
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I have recently completed some work in DVCPROHD (P2) on a similiar set-up to yours and had no issues. I could see my work on the SD monitor....but After bringing everything into MC, I switched my HD p
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| | | | | Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 & File Importby Shar Chi 4 years agoThe Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 file support page is currently a broken link. http: www.adobe.com ap products premiere supportedformats.html I rang tech support and found out they still don't support VOB f | | | | |
| | | |  | Your favorite Avid MC keyboardby Patrice Freymond 4 years agoHi, I have to work on a windows based Avid MC v.3 that has a Bella keyboard. Hate it (the keyboard). Whta is your favorite keyboard I come from the luxury of Apple keyboards and love my keys to respon | Re: Your favorite Avid MC keyboard
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I use the official Avid keyboard from Sejin at work and love it. I found one on ebay for at home, but after 2 weeks my son dropped a drink on it, and well i am back to the piece of *!@* Microsoft keyb
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| | | |  | Looks and graphics cardby paul bolden 4 years agoI'm not sure but I think that me graphics card is struggling under the weight of Looks. I am using a Radeon 9600 128. I had some error issues until I upgraded the drivers which resolved some of them. | Re: Looks and graphics card
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Paul, I believe Looks relies heavily on OpenGL...If you can get a card with OpenGL on board, not software driven, you may have better luck (QuadroFX). That said, a fast nvidia card, such as an 8800 wo
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| | | | | transcoding issuesby Mike Whalen 4 years agoI'm having problems transcoding 720p30fps footage to DVCPro50. When I open the HD footage bin in the 30i project and do the transcode the clips turn out stretched vertically. I'm using MC2.8 on a macp | Re: transcoding issues
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Sorry, I just noticed that Michael answered this same question in an earlier post. MarkMark Harvey Senior Editor Le R seau des sports
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| | | | | heat trailsby John Swanson 4 years agoI'm working on creating heat trails behind jets. What might be a good way to simulate the wavy type of refraction generated by the heat of a jet engine | Re: heat trails
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I would use a combination of FRactal noise and displacement maps. The fractals will be used to create the distortion map, and the displacement map will physically shift the pixels. I would then try an
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| | | |  | Cheatingby Mike Cohen 4 years agoThe topic suggests deviance, but that is not my intent. Every once in a while, we need to cheat while editing. I'll list a few examples from my own experience, looking forward to the responses. Revers | Re: Cheating
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I use reversed clips in my promos. I edit sports promos, and sometimes someone looking up would convey dissapointement better if they looked down. Also adding slo-motion to certain reactions can evoke
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| | | | | Annoying prime time effectsby Mike Cohen 4 years agoTwo new shows have introduced two new effects, one newer the other tired. Fringe - In the pilot of this new JJ Abrams show, each new location features a 3D text super, hanging in the air, seemingly as | | | | |
| | | | | Credit where credits due...by Marcus Bird 4 years agoHi everyone, Not sure where else to post this... Any suggestions on putting it somewhere else for a better response would be much appreciated. I worked on a documentary earlier this year for 2 months | Re: delete
by mark harvey 4 years ago
Good point Bob...just kidding. Seriously though, I work on a lot of shows, and the first thing to get cut, always are the credits....I can't remember the last time my name appeared in a credit roll...
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| | | | | Expiration on Corrections to Editsby Bryce Leverich 4 years agoHello, I was wondering if anyone has run into a client calling you 3-4 years after a project is completed and told you that they need a correction made Does anyone have a policy on things like this I | Re: Lifetime Guarantee
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I had a project last year where I edited 2 30 min shows for the client. The show was in French, which I speak fluently, but the French language is full of rules when writing. Anyway, the client sent m
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| | | | | Editing a Spanish Videoby Aaron Cadieux 4 years agoHello everyone, I work for a small ad agency as the video editor. We're doing a series of videos for a major university. We're producing an English and a Spanish version of the project. The two versio | Re: Editing a Spanish Video
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I do see your point, but I do disagree. If they are ready to bring in a translator to work with you, then you have no reason not to do the work. the company you work for pay your salary, and as long a
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| | | | | The Star Wipeby Mike Cohen 4 years agoIn the spirit of the previous thread, this post's theme is: "Ask not what your NLE is capable of. Ask what capabilities of your NLE you should actually use on a regular basis." Apologies to the Kenned | Re: The Star Wipe
by mark harvey 4 years ago
I had a client recently asked me if I could explode his logo at the end of a classy piece...he was amused when I said I can, but I won't...I then went onto to explain the cheese factor and he was cool
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| | | | | Picture before Music - or vice versaby Mike Cohen 4 years agoInterested in the preferences of the readers. When cutting a promo, commercial or other piece with a set time (ie, 30, 60 etc), do you lay down music and voice over first, then cut picture to match, o | Re: Picture before Music - or vice versa
by mark harvey 4 years ago
If the piece is a dialog based piece, such as an action scene in a commercial, the music is always added after initial rough cut and arranging of the scenes. (usually a 30 second spot begins life at a
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