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Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Crop a video and export at the exact cropped size
I think I've found the easiest way!
Just crop the area you want.
Go to the Export window without worrying about the black margins showing.
Set the final resolution and export settings as you would ...
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Layer dimensions in after effects
To find the pixel dimensions of a layer in AE,
Hit 's' that brings up scale,
then right-click Scale to bring up the Edit-Value dialog,
then set units to pixels.
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Recording video's with two cameras?
I've had my fair share of matching. C100 with 5D MK III, 5D MK III with 7D, 7D with C100, 7D with a Sony Camcorder.
It's all a matter of getting two cameras that are similar in terms of resolution ...
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How do I make titles look like they are in the room as an object?
The technique you are looking for is called "motion tracking". Currently, FCPX doesn't have the ability to do this on its own, but you could use Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects to accomplish what ...
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Post production automated addition of text
You could do this by making subtitles from your data streams and then either playing them back on a media player that can display subtitles, or rendering them into the video.
Most subtitle formats ...
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Grading Colour To Black And White In Davinci Resolve
There is actually a specific option for this in Resolve.
In your primaries pane (bottom left of the color tab) navigate to the "rgb mixer" tab.
In the top right of the tab, click the options menu (3 ...
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Search mpeg / avi frames in linux
FFMPEG doesn't really have the tools to do motion detection out of the box. You can certainly do the cropping using the crop filter: -vf crop=w:h:x:y where w:h is the size of your cropped area and x:y ...
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Rough Idea of Time Spent Editing Videos
This is a tough question because there are a ton of different factors involved here, from complexity of the video to the equipment you're working with to the NLE you use. However, the default formula ...
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What are Grey Balls used for?
Yes, they are used for adding visual effects in post. The mirrored ball is for creating an environment map or reflection map. These maps provide the same lighting from the real scene to the virtual ...
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Positioning subtitles in Premiere Pro CC
Do the math
If you want to align your text using percentage offsets or any other 'round' number in pixels, you just need to perform some simple calculations. For example, 10% from the bottom of a ...
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How to do a camera projection in maya?
To project a video instead of a photo:
convert your video to an image sequence (with Nuke, AfterFX, Premiere, whatever...)
load it into your file node, then click on 'Use Image Sequence'
scroll in ...
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When and why to use Speedgrade?
You ask what it does: Speedgrade is a color grading / correcting tool. Davinci Resolve is another, and there are others still. They allow you to adjust the characteristics of a video on a shot-by-shot ...
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Layer dimensions in after effects
To find the pixel dimensions of a layer you can use this expression:
layer.sourceRectAtTime(t = time, includeExtents = false)
t: the time index, in seconds. A floating-point value.
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How to cut a single clip in a Sequence into multiple clips for use in multiple Sequences in Premiere Pro
Here's the "Premiere" way to do it. Create N sequences, one for each of the N speakers you want to create an output clip for. Copy (by reference) the clip into each of the N sequences. If you do ...
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Continuous smooth camera movement in post
As Duvrai mentioned, the docs for Final Cut's InertiaCam setting do say it will handle what you're talking about, but I've never tried it myself.
If you are familiar with the 3D aspects of AE as ...
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Censoring license plate in a long video
I am not sure about Filmora 9, but Google Motion Tracking. You just need to roughly track the sign and make a blur bigger than the sign, so it's allways covered. If you want to exactly censor the sign,...
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How to make eye pupils look directly at the camera
That would be a task of compositing using something like Nuke or After-Effects. Here's how I'd tackle something like this:
Grab a frame of the person looking directly in the camera
Track the ...
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supply video files to editor in another country
I recently read about MASV on TechRadar, it's a file transfer service that charges 25¢ per gig that is downloaded. If you're only sending 10GB at a time, this is much more cost-effective than mailing (...
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How to stitch images from DIY panorama video rig with 3 canon 60d's?
Here's a labor intensive solution.
http://punkoryan.com/2011/02/08/shooting-360-degree-video-with-four-gopro-hd-hero-cameras
Post if you have found another solution.
I have some 3 camera video ...
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Remove light reflection from eyes
I solved my problem using 1) motion tracking and 2) a good picture of an eye.
With adobe after effects i managed to track the motion of the problematic iris. The result was a very precise motion path ...
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How to stitch images from DIY panorama video rig with 3 canon 60d's?
You could try if kolor works for you. It's not free but it's made for your exact needs. Check out the gallery for what they did. Or you can do it manually as Adam explains.
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Best way to dub the voice in a very low budget or no budget film
It sounds like you are using your laptop's microphone, and that your main problem is the lack of a quality mic. If you own an iPhone, especially iPhone 5 or later, I would recommend you use the voice ...
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Archiving AVCHD from camera for later processing
the way I do this from my Canon 7D / 100D is pop the CF or SD card into my Mac and copy the whole card to a folder with a very simple structure
Project_Name_Date
RAW_Cards
Camera_Name_Card00x
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How can I stay motivated and become more productive as a video editor?
Do you drink coffee? That's my solution.
More seriously though - For me, it helps to jump from project to project, setting individual goals each time I move to a different project, e.g. for project '...
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Do talent show programmes film lots of footage or is it set up?
I've shot live events for the past 5 years, and had a few friends get on (and actually pretty far in) both American Idol and The Voice. There is a series of auditions way before contestants ever get ...
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Even though Apple Motion is used with FCP could I still use it with iMovie?
You can use Motion to create video that you would import into iMovie. That video could be things like lower thirds, titles, or other graphics with a transparent background, where you place it over ...
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How to cut a single clip in a Sequence into multiple clips for use in multiple Sequences in Premiere Pro
The easiest way I've found is to simply click the New Item button at the bottom-right of the Project window and select "Sequence..." to create a new one; you'll need one Sequence for each clip section ...
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How to automatically pull text out of a video
I do not know of any existing solutions for this in Premiere or AE.
However, if you know a little about programming, you might be able to write a script using OpenCV that runs Tesseract OCR on video ...
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How does green screening work with green objects?
For static shots they shoot what's called a background plate: the same scene shot from the same angle but without the foreground action. Then where the green is taken out the empty background shows ...
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How to make audio "internal editing" in a movie?
Instead of deleting the offending bit, overwrite it with room tone, a section of nominal silence either recorded specifically for this purpose at the time of filming, or just taken from a nearby bit ...
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