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Hi everyone!
For me the question has become somewhat "academic". Like I said in my post of 29/10/2015, "I don't see my work ever being posted onto YouTube, likely the clips I produce will only go to DVD, to be viewed by family or friends." In fact, I've NEVER posted on YouTube. Tried getting a channel up, but never used it, or never got to use it. As they say, "use it or lose it!", likely it's been deleted by now.
Cheers anyhow!
Neil.
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Hi, Carl!
I actually tried the colour board, some time back(while still using PD7). The idea is also useful if your placing old 4:3 content over a newer 16:9 clip(example, a video of your children, now as adults, shot on 16:9 digital, with an older clip, shot on an analogue camera in 4:3 say, 20 years ago showing them as children) No "motion tracker" here, just a simple overlay, present in main screen, past on PiP screen. Just an idea that entered my head as I typed this.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, MrGrey1
Glad to be of some help. There are varying grades of MPEG2 file you can try, it just takes a bit of experimentation to find which grade is suitable for your purpose. I'm assuming that you send your clips via E-mail or facebook, I know there's a file size limit with E-mails but I've studiously avoided using facebook, but nonetheless I'd expect a file size limit applies there also.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, Brumblebuffin!
Jirka.Bolech seems to be fairly clued up on adding text to videos. Something I've observed with PD14 Ultra which can be useful is:
Create your title text, using the "Title" track. When you've added the necessary text and effects(enter and exit, be it slide, scroll, fade or whatever takes your fancy), you can then move that text track onto one of the PiP overlay tracks. I've seen this in another brand of software I have on my computer which allowed this "trick". The other programme had the option of adding a second "text" track, but PD14, by allowing you to move the text onto a PiP track.... wow! Think of the titling tricks you can perform. Create your text on any free portion of your text track, add your effects, then shift the lot to a PiP track..... I'm getting ideas already just talking about it!
Cheers!
Neil.
P.S. cute lookin' pooch you have there!
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Hello, MrGrey1!
Quite frankly I wonder why you'd even bother with WMV(Windows Media Video). Even at the best of times, WMV is blurry and indistinct. MPEG2 at DVD SP grade is far better. If you want to go higher grade again, there's MPEG2 at DVD HQ, except what little extra image quality you gain, is at the expense of capacity on a standard 4.7 Gb single-layer(DVD5) disc. At DVD HQ, you can get a shade over one hour but at DVD SP you can fit close to 2 hours 25 minutes on a disc. Other video file types offer greater quality again but require Blu-Ray discs to carry such a degree of quality(AVCHD, for instance). Not many people have Blu-Ray, as yet(some cite the expense of the discs and the hardware to burn them as a reason why they don't have Blu-Ray). Most computers come with DVD-RW drives as the standard for their desktop or laptop models.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Tony!
I saw the titles shown in "Blue & Bold", clicking on the titles showed only some to reveal content(theme variants), others appeared empty. I think I'm going to rely only on what's already there IF it suits my purpose, otherwise I'll use my library of MP3 audio tracks.(mainly instrumental hits, like Mason Williams' "Classical Gas" for instance). I don't see my work ever being posted onto YouTube, likely the clips I produce will only go to DVD, to be viewed by family or friends.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Carl!
I've not long ago converted an old 4:3 clip to 16:9, even used the stabilising function and some image enhancement, It's brought the clip up quite nicely, thank you. Of course it would be obvious that the clip was analogue-sourced, but none-the-less it still scrubbed up well. I can use this now process to match up my old content with my newer digital-shot stuff and neither will look out-of-place against the other if I were to make a compilation DVD of my works.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello everyone.
My access(when off-line) to Smartsound is somewhat limited. Some "tracks" are readily accessable but a great many more are not. Is there a fee for downloading any of these otherwise inaccessable "tracks" as I have no way of paying for same outside the use of an international money order(Western Union). I'm no miser, but I am trying to keep unnecessary costs down for my video hobby.
I'm qute curious to find some answers here.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hi, Carl & Tony!
I tried out CLPV on an old clip and I'm much impressed! Looks like I'll have a job ahead of me to convert some of my old Hi-8 stuff(shot in 4:3) into 16:9 using this method.
Cheers!
Neil.
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My last attempt to post here hit a brick wall so here we go again.
I'm staying with my desktop for the foreeable future as laptops on sale these days are loaded with Windows 10, which still seems to have some bugs in it, as several reports indicate. My desktop runs Windows 7 Home Premium which has all the "oomph" I need for my editing work.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi Carl and Ynotfish(Tony)!
CLPV ay? Hmmmm..... I've got quite a lot of old analogue-sourced 4:3 A.R. material tucked away on one of my external hard-drives. I just might give CLPV the ol' "suck it and see" test to see what it does.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Loren C!
You don't seem to be getting very far on that little trike!(ha-ha). With PD14 it takes a little bit of fiddling with the tolerance values in the Chroma-Key settings, but because there are such settings, you're able to do more critical adjustment. With PD8(and PD7) you only had the intensity setting. I still have PD8 on my computer, I use it now to create my animated titles, using lettering I've created myself in Microsoft Paint. Though I'm restricted to words of a maximum 9 letters(9 PiP tracks), I can still make up a good animated title in PD8. If Irequire extra words for the title, I make them up and construct the complete title with PD14. It can be a drawn-out process but it gets me my wanted result.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Tony!
Have you been, perhaps, trying to edit old analogue-derived content(VHS, Beta, Video-8 or Hi-8 tapes)? The warning might have something to do with the old content, just a guess, mind you. I could be wrong. If anyone else has any ideas, please jump in.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Carl!
Funny about that! I saw episodes of "I Dream Of Jeannie"(Larry Hagman & Barbara Eden), clearly shot in 4:3 but I saw eps on a local TV station in 16:9 and they did NOT look like they've been "raiding the fridge"(having a "pig-out", stuffing themselves, looking decidedly "fat" ha-ha). What gets me is how they did it. There's only a tiny extra amount of image on either side of that which is on the screen which, on old sets, the horizontal hold control could reveal if tweaked, which, at a pinch might expand to 14:9, but 16:9? Hmmmm! A touch of the old "Harry Potter" going on here, methinks!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, Loren C!
One thing I have noted in PD14 Ultra, which sits in stark contrast to PD8 is: I've tried overlaying bitmap images on PiP tracks in PD8, only to see them get blurred, but doing same in PD14 reveals a nice, sharp, well-defined superimpose. I have created a set of alphabet letters in BMP image format, so that I can make my own animated titles. If I tried to superimpose in PD8, I'd get the blurry image, but superimposing the title I created in PD14 results in a much-improved, sharp and clear superimpose.... NICE ONE!
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hi, LostTarget!
Simple enough! Put it all down to "Needs as needs must!"
P.S. "hope you finally find your "target"! (ha-ha)
Cheers!
Neil.
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Yep, I use a desktop(tower) computer. Desktops have that extra "oomph" in power to do complex editing. So my vote is definitely for desktops!
Cheers!
Neil.
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SimonW55668,
I'm not sure there's ever been such an aspect ratio! We started out with the 4:3 aspect ratio, known officially as "Academy", in its earliest days, monochrome and (sssshhhhh!) silent!!!(whispers), then came sound and colour. then came wide-screen, first 16:9, which was then adopted for digital TV broadcasting. then cinema went a step further to 20:9. But 3:2 aspect? I honestly don't believe such a beast exists.
Cheers!
Neil.
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Hello, SimonW55668!
You could try making up a mask in Microsoft Paint! Open up Paint on your computer, set the Properties(size: width 32cm; height 18 cm - which is twice the numbers in aspect ratio terms, then do a bit of mathematical calculation to determine how har in from left and right each black bar should be, pull up a line drawing tool and draw a vertical line from top to bottom and fill the area left of the line with black. And to get a matching width on the opposite side, reduce the viewing size on screen(this will not vary the dimension, it simply allows you to see the whole image at once), select the copying tool(represented as a square with a dashed border) and "copy the left-side of the image into clipboard, flip the entire image left-for-right, then paste from clipboard, you have your mask! This can then be inserted on a PiP track in your project.
Hope that's of some use.
Cheers!
Neil
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Hi, CS2014!
Glad to help! It's certainly a great effect! Could lead to some interesting ideas for animation, It's all in the imagination of the user what he/she might come up with.
Cheers!
Neil.
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To anyone who's interested, any type of image can be transparent, be it Bitmap, PNG, JPG or GIF, the secret is "Chroma-Key" If there's a white background on the image(or any colour, for that matter), drop your image onto a PiP(overlay) track, click on "modify", a PiP designer window will appear, adjust the size of your image(as and if required(a grid of up to ten "squares" is available, plus TV safe zone. Options will appear in "Properties" including Chroma-Key, click on Chroma-Key, a little arrow to the left of where you "tick" will, when clicked, point down to reveal settings. Click on the eye dropper(pippet) and, in the image area, click on the colour of the background you want to "vanish", and thus it will, leaving only the arrow, pointer or any other icon you want superimposed on your video. All quite easy, really!
Cheers!
Neil.
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