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Color in B/W Movie

Jerlin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:38:23 GMT

I've seen some shots like a RED flower or a colourfull flag in a B/W scene.

Could anyone explain How to do this? What may be the logic or theory behind this shot? I don't think they are colouring all those thousands of frames!!

Premiere Batch Encoding?

Chris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:40:33 GMT

Anyone know of a way to batch encode all the Sequences in a project??

Combustion File Browser

Mark Kauffman — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:28:54 GMT

I found this little nugget of info regarding combustion and the method for opening files. Normally, you end up using the combustion File Browser to open your files. While it looks cool and has some useful features (Thumbnails), it is not particularly fast. In fact, it can be downright sluggish! I found a method by which you can bypass the combustion interface and open elements utilizing the standard Windows interface.

To do this, open combustion and select File>Preferences. In the Host>General options, you will see an option called “Use Thumbnail File Browser”; uncheck this selection and click OK. Now, when you use the open or open workspace option in the file menu, you will see the standard Windows file browser and notice a SIGNIFICANT speed increase when navigating and opening elements.

Convert Dat DAT file?

Chris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:25:03 GMT

Anybody able to convert .dat files to .avi or whatever?

I got one the needs some lovin'.

-Chris

Sandman in Spiderman-III

Jerlin — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:49:04 GMT

Have you seen Spiderman-III? If so, how can we get the effect of that Sandman? It is fantastic!! Is it 3D or Photo-editing? ie, could anyone explain how to create an animation of a box out of loose sand particles?

Compression v's Quality

Messer — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:09:28 GMT

I currently render TGA's (32bit uncompressed) from max. We use Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 to render out these sequences. The problem I have is that the images I produce in max are crisp and sharp but after we render out of premier the quality is lost, due to the codec’s I assume. So I suppose my question to you all is

What settings / format should I use in premier to output a high quality movie?

Should I be upgrading to version 2 or wait till CS3 is released?

Thanks

Adobe CS3

Mitch_R — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:17:09 GMT

http://features.cgsociety.org/story.php?story_id=3992&referer=cgnews

Adobe unleashes Creative Suite 3 product line, early April.

Adobe has announced the Creative Suite 3 product line, uniting many different integrated design and collaboration tools like Photoshop to Dreamweaver. This upgrade across the board is the most active move to bring the best of Adobe and Macromedia products together. This upgrade, above many previous, will provide designers and developers with tools and creative options for all facets of print, web, mobile, interactive, film, and video production.

There are six new configurations of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 [CS 3]. These include the CS 3 Design Premium and Design Standard editions; CS 3 Web Premium and Web Standard editions; and CS 3 Production Premium. Furthermore, Adobe CS Master Collection combines 12 of Adobe’s new design and development applications in a single box.

Most of the CS 3 editions will be available for both Power PC and Intel-based Macs as well as XP and Vista. Artists finding themselves jumping between Illustrator to Photoshop, to Dreamweaver, to Flash, will find the transition particularly pleasing. As these apps are being brought closer together, as well as being updated, they all work better together.

Adobe’s CS 3 Design Premium and Standard, and the CS 3 Web Premium and Standard will begin shipping in April 2007. CS 3 Production Premium and CS 3 Master Collection for Mac OS X on Intel-based systems and for XP and Windows Vista platforms will begin shipping worldwide in the third quarter of 2007. The estimated street price for the Adobe CS 3 Design Premium is US$1,799, US$1,599 for Adobe CS 3 Web Premium, US$1,699 for Adobe CS 3 Production Premium, and US$2,499 for Adobe CS 3 Master Collection.

Related links:
Adobe CS 3

MiniDV Vs VCD/DVD Need Help!

Jerlin — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:51:43 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to create a VCD from MiniDV Tape recorded by a Handycam. I'm using 1394/iEE Firewire cable to download the 'avi'. The Original 'avi' is very nice! Then I used both "Ulead Media Studio-8" and "Adobe Premier 1.5" (each indepedantly)to add music and converted to Mpeg-2 (for DVD) and Mpeg-1 (for VCD) using their built-in templates. The Mpeg-2 is reasonably good but the Mpeg-1 quality is really horrible. Then i converted another version as "DV AVI" with "none" codec and it was almost as the original quality (huge file size) but it can not be used directly for VCD, rt?

I wonder how people are creating so high quality VCd's and DVD's? I hope I'm using the best program to edit. I think there are some procedures to be applied instead of using built-in templates.

The same problem (loss of quality - more than 50%) I faced before also while adding text to an original rendered animation. (That time I managed by keeping it as 'avi' )

Could anyone plz advice me? I'm totally fedup.

warm regards

WMVs and PowerPoint

Mark Kauffman — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:02:58 GMT

I just completed a project where I utilized WMVs in PowerPoint and learned some interesting things about what works best and what does not. Ultimately it comes down to using the Advanced Profile Video 9 codec over all the rest. This, unfortunately is not easily found when using the Windows Media 9 encoder, however, once an encoding profile is created, you are virtually assured smooth playback in PowerPoint, let alone just about anything. I be posting a small tutorial in the next few weeks on how to do this so keep an eye out.

Codec and Encoding Comparisons

Mark Kauffman — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:35:55 GMT

I was cleaning out my links this morning and found this great website that I used to use for my classes. You can find it here:

http://codecs.onerivermedia.com/

They put together a fantastic comparison of codecs, compressions types and color depths in a easy to understand visual presentation. Though mostly based on Quicktime based encoding, this website can easily deconstruct the mechanics of the results of encoding into something anyone could understand.

Hope this is useful.

Resolutions Galore - Graphic

Chris — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:12:19 GMT

Enjoy...

see attachment.

Premiere Help

Chris — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:26:33 GMT

While trying to apply a transition between two clips, I get an error saying:

"Insufficient Media. This transition will contain repeated frames."

The clips are targa sequences and I'm just trying apply a fade from one to the other. I've done this 100 times before and I never got this message.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Light Streak Video Tutorial

Tom — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:08:10 GMT

Enjoy!
[url]http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/index.html[/url]

Premiere Pro Frame Count

LukeC — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:47:14 GMT

I'm sure I've done this before, a long time ago, but does anyone know how to change the time view from min:sec:frame to the total frame count? I'd like to see what frame number I'm up to when scrubbing through video. I'm sure its something easy, but I just cant find it

Bouncy Balls

Ramsey — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:14:03 GMT

Simplicity and creativity do everything in this ad:

http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/braviaextcommhigh.html

Some plugins

Ramsey — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:19:01 GMT

Found this list of AE plugins I thought I would pass around, to initiate the forum. I cannot vogue for all of these, but I do love Trapcode's stuff...

www.trapcode.com

http://www.digitalanarchy.com/

http://www.fnordware.com/

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/

http://www.revisionfx.com/

-Ramsey