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Yes, you will have to re-render. And that's a lot of pain in one image! If it's too much hassle, try these things, which sound counter-intuitive, but can help a lot.
1. If the colours are extremely bright, make them less so. Turn on your safe colour guides and keep reducing the saturation until it shows as safe.
2. Add .5 gaussian blur to the image. This knocks off the sharpness of the fine
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Could you post a screenshot or a short video so we can see what it might be?
There's lots of variables that could be contributing here - what codec is your timeline? DV is particularly bad for flickering, especially when seen on a computer monitor instead of a broadcast monitor. Try cutting in a more graphics friendly timeline like ProRes, and viewing on a TV or broadcast monitor.
Fine line
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Merry Christmas all
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Make sure the dimensions of your picture fit, or nearly fit, the dimensions of your sequence. So, a PAL widescreen DV sequence would be 1024 x 576.
Also, render your picture, and make sure to look at it on a broadcast monitor, or at least a television, before freaking out too much. DV looks pretty horrible on computers.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
I've seen something like this with XDCam files in PP, and apparently the answer is to use the Media Browser to bring in the clips instead of just going with 'File>Import'.
I haven't had a chance to test this yet, but I did see some people saying that this solved similar problems.
What I do in PP is just delete the additional files. They are always appended .2 or.3, so it was easy to sp
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Does anyone know of a way of accessing GoPro Black HiLight markers in Premiere?
I have a job where I need to know the timecode (preferable frame accurately, although a few frames slippage is OK) at the point where someone is marking using HiLight markers on a GoPro app on an iPhone.
Right now I'm opening the clip in GoPro Studio and using the highly inaccurate playhead (it seems to be abo
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
I'm just doing some tests here - I've got a 10.29 native xdcam timeline that I'm sending out ProRes LT and it's reporting about 6 minutes.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
I don't render before export - I don't think you need to, although if you're using scaled R3D I can imagine it would be more of an ask for the processor. Something to watch - check the setting on Match Sequence Settings - I've found sometimes I'm not getting what I actually want by doing that.
The export times are def longer than FCP7, but I'm not usually seeing times like those.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Do you work in ProRes timelines, Joe? I typically work in PRoRes HQ sequences, and export via the Media Manager when ready, which leaves Premiere free to keep working while that's churning away in the background.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
If you are creating scrolling credits, you can do it in the title window, and it takes almost no time to render out. If you're using white on black you might want to go for a not too contrasty white, and maybe flicker filter it, because scrolling thin white lines can cause flickering.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Yes, just make each version of the font a new layer and keyframe them to meet in the middle, which is just two keyframes per layer. Start with the final keyframe with the font in the final position (probably the very middle of the screen, where it appears when you've typed it) and then go back to the start of the clip and set a keyframe with the font dragged completely offscreen where you want it
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
I think it's well known that I and a bunch of other people here went to Premiere - the chief reason being that it was so similar to FCP7 (but in many ways now better). It even has an option to turn on the FCP7 keyboard shortcuts. So I personally would say check out Premiere. Full disclosure, I am an ACP now, but I really am saying this as a person you (sort of) know, not as an Adobe mouthpiece.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Also, if the tapes are old, they are probably starting to shed oxide, so keep cleaning as you go.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
BY the way, Adobe has a bunch of limited time special offers on at the moment. You can check them out here - especially if you're not eligible for the upgrade packages.
(I'm re-posting this in the Premiere Forum, but thought it might not get to you in time there.)
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Adobe has a bunch of limited time special offers on at the moment. You can check them out here - especially if you're not eligible for the 'upgrade from CS6' packages.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Making an XML file only takes a few minutes and would be your best option. Could you borrow someone's mac, just to do the conversions and get you back to ground zero?
I'm assuming all your media is on externals, of course. If it was onboard the dead mac it will be harder.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
I wonder if it was someone's last flight? I was on a plane recently where the fire brigade came out at the airport when we landed and they told us not to be alarmed, but that it was the captain's last flight, and they were seeing him off with water cannons. It was really cool - like being in a carwash in a 747.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Yes - raytrace in AE only runs on nvidia cards, which are not available for the new MacPro because it's too small.
Here's some info about the Ray-Traced renderer. It might be that you don't need it anyway, but good to know before you drop $10k plus on a finishing machine if you do.
We had a problem with it because our outsourced graphics department on a show built everything with raytr
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
We have a trashcan Mac running PPCC (not 14) and it was problematic until we upgraded to the latest Mavericks, because there was an issue with Mavericks causing a memory leak on the graphics card.
Also, the trashcan is too small to accommodate the right cards for raytrace on AE, so if you plan to use that be aware that the iMacs might work better for now.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Do you know what types of footage Maya will accept? Also, what camera did you record on?
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Ship ballet. Lovely.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Nice pickup. One of those things that will solve someone's inexplicable crash problem soon, I'm sure.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Yeah - I think it's also hard sometimes to find a clear space in your schedule were it's safe to upgrade and find all the possible conflicts. I know that Adobe do extensive testing with lots of people on lots of different systems, but invariably there's always some little thing that gets through the net.
Not that having lots of work is a bad thing
Anyway, glad you got sorted for now.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Wow that's terrible. I contacted Red Giant a few months ago and they stayed with me until the problem was resolved. Maybe they are being inundated? Which version of CC are you on?
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
I think Red Giant is moving/has moved(?) to a whole new model. We have CC (not 2014) with Magic Bullet installs, but the downloader keeps trying to force us to upgrade to something else. Which of course we don't want to do until we have a clean slate. Not sure about Sapphire.
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
I quite like the new look and functionality, except for the loss of Labels. I was really really not into upgrading to Mavericks because so much of my stuff is sorted with labels and that small dot at the far right hardly tells me at a glance the status of files like a great big highlight bar does.
Anyway. Can't really do anything about it but adapt, I guess.
Some things that have happened
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
I just updated to Yosemite and wanted to report that Premiere CC 2014 seems to be running fine.
I haven't had time to do any point upgrades in Premiere yet, but I thought maybe there would be other people out there on CC 2014 who wanted to know if it was OK to upgrade or if everything immediate turns to pumpkins.
So far no pumpkins here - don't want to jinx myself. I'll report back if an
by Jude Cotter
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Oh whoops - sorry Shane. As Shane said. Not Ben. Ben's the one with the funny accent.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
Yosemite also breaks older versions of iPhoto. I've heard reports of people losing their old libraries when installing the new iPhoto, but I don't know if this is true. As a precaution I backed up all my master images before installing the update. Also, it's about a gig, so be prepared for that if you're on a slow/restricted download limit.
Oh, and I noticed the Qmaster pref pane and all flip4
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
As Ben says, what you're doing is fine. No changes need to be made, nor will they. It's just taking the original shot file and putting it in a wrapper that FCP can handle.
by Jude Cotter
- Café LA
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