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Tips for recording pen and paper
I've got a set-up where I'm using an iPad to record myself writing something on a white sheet of paper (with less-than-perfect lighting, of course). I'm recording a video in 1080p, and would like to ...
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How to troubleshoot audio imbalance?
Despite that the balance is set to neutral (middle) the right channel delivers clearly lower audio than the left channel for all I/O. I didn't try with headphones directly from the amp. The amp is ...
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How do I automatically create burned-in subtitles in Premiere Pro?
I have subtitles for a video in .srt format and I want to use this create 'burned-in' subtitles in Adobe Premiere Pro. Is this possible to do - and how?
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Ideal projection solution for Kinect hack performance
I've been learning about how the Kinect is being hacked by
artists and multi-media nuts to make some incredible interactive
systems. The examples up at www.kinecthacks.com and many other
similar ...
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Will ripping my old 90's and 2000's CDs yield as good a quality as buying the MP3s today?
I have a bunch of old CDs from 1990 and 2000 that I want to rip as MP3s to my computer. I am not an audio buff, so perhaps this question is a bit irrelevant to my personal quality preferences, but ...
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Scan Library for music track
Hope, I got the right forum for my question.
I'm a Podcaster and publishing podcasts since 2005. In my first few episodes I used a Music Track as an opener which seems to have a copyright on it, so I ...
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After Effects: Importing Illustrator sequence?
I have 200 layers in Illustrator CS6. I have another set of the same layers but where basic attributes (position, scale) have changed.
Is there a way to import these two "states" into After Effects ...
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Why can I only use 2 microphones with my 4 channel USB mixer?
I just bought an Alesis MultiMix 4 USB.
What I wanted it for was the ability to connect 4 microphones to my computer via USB, in order to record a podcast where 4 people could be individually miked. ...
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What techniques are used to create this 1-minute motion graphic?
Here's a 1 minute After Effects (?) production about The Noun Project (an iconic website):
https://vimeo.com/48846655
I really like the style of it and would like to learn how to create something ...
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Format to view on iOS and PS3?
I have Apple Compressor and have been trying to determine the correct format for my videos to allow them to play on both the iPad and my PlayStation 3 via a Media Server. Can anyone help me to ...
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How to easily integrate a series of images in pdf with audio using Mac Os X
I made a lesson and would like to put it on the web. I have the audio recording of it. I also have the slides. I made them using Keynote, and then can export them to pdf.
I now need to integrate the ...
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Thunderbolt-Firewire adapter: latency
I'm interested in using an old Firewire multichannel audio interface with a very recent Macbook that does not have Firewire but does have Thunderbolt.
Apple sells a $30 Firewire-Thunderbolt adapter. ...
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Mixer built-in DSP effects vs software effects
I'm trying to decide between buying an old (used) mixing board (or some other PC-less box with lots of DSP effects) versus buying a multichannel PC audio interface and doing my live effects through ...
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Best rendering output for 720px X 480px Sony Vegas Pro 12
I'm pretty new to video editing so please excuse if my question is rather entry level.
I have a bunch of archival films that were converted MPEG-2 at 720px by 480px. I'm required to put a watermark ...
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Easiest way to create a continuous shot effect using multiple cameras?
Here is the Script:
Lets take the opening scenes of Hugo, of course the film bagged Academy awards, In the scene that starts by following the kid (Hugo), carries on and on for some time with many ...
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Annotating sports video: design principles?
I was watching Match Of the Day (a soccer highlights show for those not from the UK) and I've found they use this software Piero to annotate the football matches.
When annotating video of moving ...
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Traditional animation techniques and 30fps software animation?
I'm putting together a very basic software to animate a few pixels frame-by-frame. I've skimmed through Richard William's Animator's Survival Kit in the past and noticed most traditional animation ...
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How can I make my recording sound louder in Audacity?
I record how-to videos and I get a pretty decent, loud sound. But I'd like to make it a bit louder without clipping. Anyway to do this?
MY SETUP
Analog mixer
Behringer XM8500 dynamic mic
I use ...
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Color grading ; Anybody familiar working with Da-Vinci Resolve? [closed]
I've heard of this tool, Blackmagic's Da vinci resolve, as its available for free from the site but the Package including its consoles and all costs much. Is there anybody here familiar with this ...
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Old MOTU 828 Mk1 on a modern system
I'm brand new to pro audio recording, and I'm putting together my system right now. I'm interested in buying a MOTU 828 Mk1 interface in order to pipe 4 XLR mics through the 828, through firewire, ...
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ADAT to USB interface
Is there such a thing as a bridge between ADAT and USB? It seems simple enough, and seems like it should be a very cheap device -- just do some translation from the ADAT digital stream into USB. But ...
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Miking a mixed choir/instrument ensemble on a budget
The space: Church sanctuary, roughly ballpark-shaped, about 40 to 50 feet on a side. Stone walls and floor with cloth hangings and carpeted aisle runners, wood pews with cushions, high vaulted plank ...
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How to force After Effects to interpret footage at a specific framerate?
I just started using after effects CS4, and created my first video.
But if i look at my final (rendered) video, its 2x the speed it was originally.
I recorded a 22 second clip, and traced etc.
Looked ...
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Can I use the videos marked as “youtube standard license” for a non profit video?
I'm creating a video for my institution.
It's a scientific institution, so I suppose that the video can be considered no-profit (we don't make it to sell our products but to show our scientific ...
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Pro Tools Freeware Replacment
Many people believe Pro Tools to be the standard in high end audio production. Can anyone recommend a free replacement that has as many of the essential features of Pro Tools as possible? I ...
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Lighting for shooting a presentation
I need to record a presentation at a conference.
I did it last year and the lighting was so low it was unusable.
i want to come prepared this year, so i need advice on proper lighting.
The subject ...
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How is it customary to pay a video editor - global or per-hour?
Hope this is on-topic.
It is often that assesing the amount of work required for editting a video is a very hard task. This makes the payment issue a bit complicated.
I assume there is no one ...
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Safe to unpower audio amp?
I have an AudioSource AMP-100 audio amp, and I want to be able to turn it off and on remotely. I'm wondering how safe it is to just cut the power to the amp; it seems like this is what the power ...
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How much storage does video editing take?
I'm brand new to video so I don't even yet have a favorite software package.
In general, on popular software like FCPX or Premiere, how many MB per minute of 1080p will I need?
I realize there are a ...
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How do I use the Insert I/O on my Behringer Mixer?
My Behringer X2442USB has a feature called Insert I/O. I understand what Behringer has to say about this feature but now how to use it.
From the manual,
INSERT
Insert points enable the ...
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How to buy a decent monitor
If I want good color rendition, do I just need to search for monitors with "IPS", high contrast, and high brightness? Or are there other keywords I should use in shopping?
Note: I'm talking about ...
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GPUs for motion graphics
What are a few common GPUs that offer the best hardware acceleration for motion graphics and compositing? (i.e. After Effects, Motion, Combustion, etc)
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Cheapest way to get MANY Audio Inputs
What are some cheap USB boxes on the market that offer many audio inputs, especially of the XLR variety?
Is there any reason (i.e. software limitations, or latency) that I can't simply buy several ...
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Does alpha matte version of a clip allows to change the pattern
I'm a beginner in this field and I have to buy this clip from shutter-stock.
This clip comes with some pre-rendered patterns and has an alpha-matte version.
My question is : I want to use different ...
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How to make a sample/note sustained or long in Reason 4?
In Reason 4, some notes play as long as the red bar in the editing window continues. Others have just a single touch with no release and no matter how long the bar, they don't sound continuously.
How ...
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Typical frequency bands for mixer low mid and high gains
You've all seen the low mid and high knobs on cheap mixers (if you haven't, I provided a pic below).
To my knowledge, the low one corresponds to a low shelf filter, the high one to an hi-shelf filter ...
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Configure file naming & presents in Adobe Media Encoder
I'm running the latest version of Premiere Pro & Encoder (CS6). Encoder has a watch folder capability to automatically encode files, but it defaults to Flash output with a specific preset & ...
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Music-sync'd Strobe effect in video
What's one way to get a strobe flash effect in video (you know, virtually, in software) that's synchronized to the beat of a music track?
Or for that matter, how do I synchronize ANY effect with ...
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What software could make a video like this…? [closed]
http://yhoo.it/r8TI5X
Follow the link above and watch the video. What software would I need that would be capable of making a video like this of the same quality and animation? It would need to be ...
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Lightworks problems importing, editing, and exporting using Canon EOS Rebel T3i
I'm using Lightworks 11 for Windows and I can't import the .mov files from my Canon EOS Rebel T3i. Lightworks identifies the .mov files as "Apple / H264" but the show up in a red color.
Other .mp4 ...
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What should I look for in microphones for home audio monitoring “nanny audio cam” system
When building a home monitoring "nanny audio cam" system, the main component seems to be microphones/sound pickups.
The qualities that I think I need for such microphones for this system seem to be:
...
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Changing QuickTime Conversion Default Settings for export
We recently just switched our production to anamorphic (SD) widescreen (720x486) and we're running into some issues getting our videos to export from Final Cut Pro (version 6) at the right size. To ...
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Tips for making multiple video shoots appear Continuous in color?
I'm brand new to video production, but I'm finding that when splicing some clips together in the NLE captured with my GH1 camera, there can often be very jarring jumps in the color, white balance, ...
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suction-cup lamps for video lighting [closed]
Here's an idea that I wonder if anybody has tried...
In order to get better lighting for indoor video camera work, get a few small pendant lamps, each with a suction-cup. Just stick them onto a ...
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tiny usb audio recording stick
Are you aware of any tiny USB-stick -sized audio recorders? I'm considering that given a few of these might be very handy for miking people up for video recording without all the fuss of a wireless ...
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Wireless MIDI piano keyboards
Are there any wireless MIDI keyboard controllers still being made?
Surprisingly from my googling it appears that there is only the the M-Audio MidAir 25 and MidAir 37, both of which are no longer ...
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Beatboxing to MIDI in realtime
I'm interested in having a live performance setup wherein I essentially beatbox into a microphone and have my beats sounded by a MIDI drum rack.
So I'm looking for software (whether a feature of a ...
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Audio effect: loop on a keyboard key
Using Mac/Linux/Windows SOFTWARE with an attached MIDI keyboard:
What's the simplest way to, on-demand in live performance, capture a 1-second recording from a microphone and then play it on a loop ...
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Audio effect: tune to a particular frequency
What software configuration or VST do you recommend for taking a realtime audio feed and "tune" it to a particular frequency (note)?
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Tips for silently prompting people to not get too close to mics?
In a recent video project I came across some "popping" which I believe was in part due to the person being too close to the mic.
Without verbally prompting them, what would help remind them to keep ...
