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Where Else To Put This?It doesn't fit anywhere else, so here it is. Most of this stuff was gleaned from the User-To-User pages. It does not come with a guarantee. Maybe it is correct, and maybe not. But it all seems to be OK. And I needed to get it out of my favorites list to make room for more. Learn to make an inexpensive Light Tent. Some serious Photoshop artwork by a true master. Check it out... These are not photos. The Sony M10U does work with Premiere Pro 2.0 - so if you need help, check out this tutorial. Silicon Imaging introduced the SI-1920HDVR, the world's first 1080P 2/3" Digital Cinema Camera with Direct-to-Disk 10-bit CineForm RAW™ Recording, and Adobe Production Studio Integration. Silicon Imaging and Cineform, together Inspired Minority Pictures and Atomic-VFX, are busy shooting a feature film, titled “Spoon”, on a HD camera that is implementing a system never before used. The SI-1920HDVR combines a digital cinema class 1920x1080P camera with CineForm's revolutionary CineForm RAW™codec in an embedded PC architecture under Microsoft Windows XP. The camera is connected directly to the computer, so expensive tape stock is no longer an issue. It is also possible to attach a 160GB notebook hard drive to the camera for up to 4 hours of free-roaming shooting. The camera uses modern cinema PL mount lenses, as well as affordable F and compact C mount lenses that is connected to a single large format 2/3” CMOS sensor with an on-chip 12-bit A/D converter. This is then fed through wire into a 'wafian' box and into the PC. Originally developed for the independent film maker the camera provides superb image quality at a low cost. With release during the third quarter of the year the camera is costing in the area of only $20 000. Still in the Beta phase of development, but already exceeding everyone's expectations, the SI-1920HDVR is the camera for the future of HD filming. Check out www.indiefilmlive.blogspot.com, or if you would like to get more technical information on the camera hardware and software, visit www.siliconimaging.com/phpBB/index.php I just love it when new technology actually solves a real problem. ------------------- Premiere 6.x --- Are all of your files suddenly named "-1" in the bins? Here is the solution. 1. Open the corrupted project with Notepad. If you want help doing this, some genius at mksol.net wrote a web based program where you browse for your corrupted file, press the send button, and it fixes it automatically and sends it back to you as a download. Just save it over the same name, or another name if you wish, and it is all fixed. Way too cool. The link is http://mksol.net/adb/premiere_fix.php If you want a Visual Basic program that will fix it for you faster, look here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jhariot/html/premiere.html Another program is available from Fernando Morgado at http://www.nonoise.net/fm/downloads.asp titles "PreFix". Other:
I have a new page titled "Grinner Hester's Pearls of Wisdom". Check it out. Have you visited Triggerstreet yet? You really should. It is a great online short film festival. You can review films, and enter your own if you think you are ready. Not ready? Then get that way! Sign up for http://www.triggerstreet.com. They also allow you to enter/review screenplays. Want to make your video look more like film? Mike Gunter has collected a lot of links for you. Take a look. Want to know how much video fits on a DVD and at what data rate? Mike Velte put this table together for you. MPEG Encoder Bitrate Table If you are an educator, check out the information available on this page: http://www.adobe.com/education/curriculum/dv_curriculum.html If color interests you, the web site for Color In Motion is a real eye opener. It is an interactive experience of color communication and symbolism by Claudia Cortéz. It is available in English and Spanish. In order to import Premiere Pro files into After Effects 6.0, you must have installed After Effects 6.0 before installing Premiere Pro. If the Premiere Pro installer does not see After Effects 6.0, it won't have a place to install the proper conversion tools. This does not apply to After Effects 6.5 and Premiere Pro 1.5 Still sitting on the fence trying to decide? Read this review of Premiere Pro 1.5 by Charlie White. I have to admit that every time I see the list price of this product I wonder if anyone is actually paying that. I wouldn't. Would you? I would rather spend $200 more and get the entire collection. In any case, I find it amusing that Charlie starts the review of Premiere Pro 1.5 talking about the Project Manager. I feel the same way about it. It really is a major factor in my workflow now. Sorry, a serious error has occurred ... See Adobe
Knowlegebase Document 329798 If you don't have Premiere Pro 2.0 or After Effects and you need timecode, you could always download a copy of my little video of an hour of timecode. But now there is a better solution. Eddie Lotter created a program that generates timecode at any frame size and frame rate with font selection and background color selection. It is a great little free program that comes in a 197KB file complete with a help file. Not that you will need help. I highly recommend you take a look. Premiere Pro has Color Correction tools. But, how do you use them? I bought a book titled "Color Correction for Digital Video" (A CMP book) but you can read up on the tools in a generic manner online on the Tektronix site. NTSC video Measurements (HTML) and PAL video Measurements (PDF) are both available. Frank Printel posted a PDF of all of the keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Pro. If that link doesn't work, I have a copy here. A two page version is now available. http://www.siliconbaymedia.com/permiere-pro-1-5-keyshortcuts-a-vert-pg1.pdf and http://www.siliconbaymedia.com/permiere-pro-1-5-keyshortcuts-a-vert-pg2.pdf A very interesting program, written before Particle Illusion, has been made available as freeware. Check out Gloodle here. Setup: Do you know the difference between zero setup and 7.5 setup? Do you convert analog to digital? You should see this Flash tutorial from JVC. It explains how to avoid crushed blacks, and blacks that are too light! To increase the performance of your Intel processor, check out the Intel® Application Accelerator Transparent PunchThru in the titler: The templates that punch through to create an alpha channel have the setting "punchthru" set to true in the .PRTL file. You can not do this yourself unless you do it with a text editor. Or you can copy one from a template into your title. Want to get rid of all of those programs that open at Windows Startup? Here's how. DV Previews Play Stuttered in Premiere Monitor Window? Look here. Still Images Are Black When Rendered or Previewed in Premiere 6.x - An Adobe Knowledgebase article. help on creating mpeg for dvd-vcd how to create mpeg from Premiere automatically cut incoming video capture into pieces If you get a red "X", place the yellow work area bar over the area with the "X" and press the Enter key. It could take a while. Minutes, hours, days. It depends. But, it is necessary. It is called "Rendering". Look it up in the help file. And, last but not least, you make a clip play backward by putting a minus sign in front of the speed. Get it? 100% is forward, 50% is slow motion, -100 is reverse, and -50 is reverse slow motion. I had a great time at the DV Expo in New York (July 2004). I met Tim Kolb, Jacob Rosenberg, Brian Maffit, and a bunch of the Adobe staff. Great HD demo by Jacob in the special room reserved for the demo. A mere $24,000 for a great HD editing system from Boxx using Cineform technology. And the chroma key material from Reflecmedia called Chromatte is without a doubt the right way to create a green screen or blue screen. Perfect keys possible every time. I could hardly believe my own eyes. You can get it with VirtualSetWorks products - who just started a forum at http://forum.virtualsetworks.com/ I want this so bad, but as a hobbyist, how do I justify it? You can rent it though ...Sigh. I received an email from DV.com about some videos they posted from the 2004 DV Expo West. The keynote presentation from Walter Murch, a Project Management talk from Richard Harrington, and best of all, the first part of Adam Wilt's "Maximizing Success with DV Cameras". He covers a lot of really great stuff and uses the Sony HDR-FX1 as an example for much of it. You have to sign up, but it is certainly worth the trouble. Be warned that Adam's part is listed at 42:26 but really runs over an hour and a half. See the videos hereFormer Top Tips of the week ....Do you believe that the RIAA is doing the right thing about filesharing? If not, check this out: http://www.moviesformusic.org/ Top tip of the week(First part of April '03) Kevin Curtis wrote a small (342K) program called WMVConverter to provide a simple GUI interface to the Windows Media 9 command line scripting environment. He even supplies a manual. The link to download the GUI is in the introduction to the manual. Top tip of the week (second week in
August) - Daniel Brown produced this winner. Premiere and Photoshop: Putting images in motion Top tips of the week (most of October) - Windows XP Tips, tricks & TWEAKS! There is a part one and a part two. Check it out. Top tips of the week (most of February) There are some tutorials for DVDit on the Sonic web site. They are old but very informative. Check them out. http://support.sonic.com/tutorials.htm Top tips of the week (most of March New videos - check out "Art of the Saber" at http://www.theforce.net/theater/fxprojects/aos2/index.shtml This video includes some amazing work for mere amateurs. Very impressive stuff. A fix for the "Missing Codec" problem found in Premiere 6.5 is posted on the Adobe site. It is a 1.65MB file. http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM?y=eZK20F14o50ECv0FRvb0Ax I found an interesting site you should take a look at if you are into widescreen. Check out Ben Syverson's Widescreen DV Tell-All. Kingpin Interactive has some great reading materials on The Future of Interactive Television, Forging New Customer Relationships and Flash as a Video Tool - among others. Top tips of the week (some of March and the beginning of April 2003 The World's Worst Editor (No, no, it's not you, but you can learn from him) Lots and lots of Photoshop tips Top tips of the week (most of February
2003) - Make an Auto Starting, Multimedia CD with a Video Embedded in an
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