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Just a shot in the dark, have you tried Small Motion? Also, clear all of the previous tracking. James Ollick...

So I made the rookie mistake of shooting a long presentation on auto exposure, instead of a fixed exposure. The presenter is standing in front of a bright projection screen and moving around it, blocking it at times so the camera's auto exposure is trying to compensate and the brightness...

For some reason, I'm getting some weird banding lines on one of my graphics. If you look at the screenshot or video below you'll see it happens on the left side of the frame, but not the right side for some reason. The video also shows my timeline in case...

So I have a problem. I found this fun feature with Photoshop where you use the timeline to animate with layers and you can make a gif. I'm working on a project with my husband and he really likes what I've done with this little animation. The problem is it's...

To avoid long discussions on light based color and ink based color: those who are interested should learn color theory. Process I use for CYMK/RGB: If the client scope is for print (a dedicated printing facility) only: CYMK. I Try not to use any transparent imagery. But if necessary, I...

Take a look at this tutorial, right here on the COW. https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Multi-Layer-Editing-1/1...

Wow, didn't even think of using submixes for that! I'm more used to the ProTools world for routing stuff like this, but Premiere's routing has always confused me. What I did was create submixes for VO/Dx and NATS, which are routed/panned to the proper outputs. Then I made my mono...

Losing. I guess I was truly "loosing?" my mind!😄 Anika...

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Hello, I've got a weird issue with Mocha. I've used it many times before and so this one has me completely stumped. For whatever reason, regardless of what I try to track, the spline I create always jumps toward the lower left corner in the second frame of the track....

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Sorry, seems just more of "if you don't like it...you just don't get it. Those who do get it are rare, creative individuals who are simply better than you are." At least that's what I got from the Kickstarter video. We get it. FCX is new, it's innovative. It works...

Oh here is the AEP file. 11482_1starwars.aep.zip Thanks....

Use Compressor, and then the QuickTime 7 Web Download for LAN. See what that does. Shane Little Frog Post Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def...

Or you could use the Vegas Effect after you Rotoscope and have it based off of the image's alpha. (You'd need to mess with the settings so it's one, solid line instead of a bunch of soft lines.) - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in...

Hi Walter, here a screenshot of the project. ae_screenshot.jpeg...

Hi Richard Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately they have requested we use stock footage so we had absolutely no control with the video, but yes from what I can gather rotoscoping seems like the only option. I wonder if there is a way I can use the rotobrush tool and...

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oops, That's my bad. Thanks for your help though. Cheers. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)...

Before I go getting people all upset, I'm trying to learn here by creating an open dialogue but I'm coming from a non-print world for the most part. I create Everything in RGB, because it's RGB. I take pictures with a digital camera, and render things in 3D software, which...

Hello, I have a SteelSeries Apex M800 and the F keys are working fine for every other program (and for resolve's keybinding selection) but not in the Davinci timeline where I need them. I'm wondering if there is a setting I have missed, if other people have had issues with...

c4d file Dive visibility by distance to camera https://f1.creativecow.net/11481/dive-visibility-by-distance-to-camera...

For those want to see the FCPX debate taken to a whole other level please check out Off the Tracks on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2uiKYZH Kickstarter Pitch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dtsd2ZVnc&t=4s Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Wzxiefbig Noah FCPWORKS - FCPX Workflow FCP Exchange - FCPX Workshops XinTwo - FCPX Training...

Unless he was on green screen your going to have to rotoscope him out. They should have realized they needed a green screen for this kind of shot...good luck...

Hi Dave, Thanks for your always wise answer. Not all of my scenes are bad lighted, and fortunately some scenes that are on the first rows seats that are ok will hide partially the rows on the back, so i'm looking for a solution that could help to minimize the...

Check out the mics section at Sweetwater: they offer some shotgun and lav mics customized for iPhone use, as does a search on Amazon. Another option that may work for you is, for round-table discussions, give them a PZM styled boundary mic to lay on the table and it will...

Here's a question -- how many weeks are you willing to devote to fixing this chroma key shot? Because that is how long it will take to salvage it. There will be frame-by-frame hand work to correct the lighting errors. Now -- balance a few weeks of work against a...

Hi Matthew, Thanks for responding. I've renamed the Attic folders. And that made a huge difference. Thank you. The project is on an internal drive (Not C:) that is 1.8 TB file format NTFS. 7,200 RPM, Its not mirrored or on a raid 5. I have it in a dropbox...

Bunch of answers for this.. Object > Envelope Distort > Mesh. OR Create a 4-point square. Adjust the points with the Direct Select tool to achieve the desired perspective. Layer above the text. Select both and Object > Distort > Make with Top Object. OR Apply 3D rotate to the...

Wives are awesome. Mine makes everything she touches, better in some way. She makes ME a better person than I otherwise am, and makes me strive to be worthy. She helps make our kids better than we are. She's my sounding board, chief advisor, all-around consultant and guide, all on...

They rewrote the entire program when CC 2015 came out and that feature is still not implemented....

Glad I could help! :) - The Great Szalam (The 'Great' stands for 'Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble') No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced....

The guys that do "real" time lapse sometimes use a plug-in or app that reduces the flicker from frame-to-frame iris changes . I don't recall what it's called, but a google search on terms about that may turn it up. Back in the day, I had somewhat of a similar...

I didn't know there was a problem with the Avid forums on here, but the best place to go for Avid stuff is definitely the Avid Community forums: http://community.avid.com or The Avid Editors of Facebook Group Film Editor, London UK www.scottclementseditor.com...

Not the way I wanted to write it, but this works input = text.sourceText; result = text.sourceText; for (var i = 1; i = 24; i++){ if (input.indexOf("Weekdays "+i+".30pm &") > -1){ result = input.substr(0,8) +" r"+ input.substr(9,25); break; } else if (input.indexOf("Weeknights "+i+".30pm &") > -1){ result = input.substr(0,10)...

Hi there, As long as I can remember, it's always been the cardinal rule to edit video footage from an external (or at least separate) drive from the one your operating system and software is stored on. 1. With the ridiculous speed and ample storage options of modern SSDs, is...

Hi, I'm working in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1.1. Picked up a project from another editor. In the clips in my timeline, there are colored bars. They annoy me. I'd like to remove them. Does anyone know what they are and how I can remove them? Thanks!...

Vince, you seem to best the master of XML and premiere repair. Is there a up to date email I can contact you on. Kind Regards Tom...

Hi Guys, first time posting on here but I always come here for advice regardless because this site is amazing: so I am having a specific issue: I am motion tracking some video footage, and part of this storyboard shows that a stroke is drawn around the character and moves...

I've reached the end of project and realised that I haven't taken into account. If my colleagues type in Weekdays/Weeknights 7.30pm & 8.30pm, the text goes over the edge of my border I've created. a = text.sourceText; if (a.indexOf ("Weekdays" && ".30pm &") != -1){ "Weekdays" +" r"+ a.substr(9,25) }...

I know the post is old, but I have the same issue and I would like to know if did You solve the problem?...

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If the default location is write protected or somehow otherwise unavailable, it will place them there....

[Tero Ahlfors] "If you want to use multiprocessing you'll need to use AE CC2014. The latest one doesn't have it yet." hmm, interesting, so they upgrade the software but degrade the performance? wtf?...

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks If you aren't willing to change you shouldn't be editing" - Richard Marks...

I would set the source of the secondary clones to be the first cloner rather than the object being cloned. Then apply a second shader effector to the second cloner (referencing the same plane/UV space) so you have more flexibility (you can adjust the noise scale and seed values to...

Maybe like this: mySplit = thisComp.layer("Programme Title").text.sourceText.split(" r"); if (mySplit.length > 1) mySplit[1] else ""; Dan...

Here is the most recent, available Avid whitepaper on Avid Metadata logging and management that has a section on ALE file creation. Unfortunately it does not describe any of the new metadata fields from 7.0.3 and later, but may be good enough for what you need to do: https://www.avid.com/~/media/avid/files/hero-products-pdf/media-composer/avid-metadata-logging-tracking.pdf?la=en Also,...

Try time remapping: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/time-stretching-time-remapping.html#time_remapping Walter Soyka Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link] Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting @keenlive [twitter] | RenderBreak [blog] | Profile [LinkedIn]...

Thank you very much, Michael! I'll take a stab at it today....

I've got a complex composition with many, many, maany layers. I would like to stretch the time between 2s and 3s, to make it 5s long. Basically I would like that my animation that lasted 1s and happens between 2s and 3s to last 5s. Now, the layer ends before...

This has come really handy at the moment txt = value; if (text.sourceText.length >= 50){ for (i = 50; i > 0; i--) if (txt[i] == " ") break; if (i > 0) txt.substr(0,i) + " r" + txt.substr(i+1) else txt.substring(0,61) + " r" + txt.substring(62,999); }else{ txt } I...

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