Audio/Video Effect

Hi,
im making an intro for youtube, and i see on youtube they have some video distortions or camera movements that link up with the audio. is there an easy way to do this, or was it done manually?
Example: Free 3D Intro #10 | Cinema 4D/AE Template - YouTube

You can either use keyframes timed to the music or convert an audio layer to keyframes and use an expression to control the effect. This is more complicated than just pressing a button on a plug-in. It requires some basic knowledge of how to animate and how to use expressions. This begs the question, how much experience do you have with AE? if you're brand new then please run through the Basic Workflow before you do anything else. If you have some experience with expressions and keyframes then take a look at this tutorial from my friend Andrew Kramer. VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials

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Is this possible with After Effects, or any of Adobe's products at all? Every time I place an audio spectrum effect on, I can hear the audio of my video clips, but the visualizer refuses to show on top of anything other than the black background that appears the moment I activate the effect.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

Place the audio in the comp and then add a solid layer. (comp size)
Next, go to Effects, Generate, "Audio Spectrum" or "Audio Waveform" depending on what you'd like.
You can apply the waveform directly to the video layer, but placing it on a separate layer allows separate adjustment of both layers independently.
There are quite a few parameters that can be adjusted, however the defaults should be fine for most things.
Here's a nice tutorial on the effect:
http://www.motionworks.com.au/2009/08/effect-audio-wavefor/
--Desmond

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How do I fix my audio/video in iChat 4.0.9? it has worked perfectly until last night. I have been having video calls iChat with my granddaughter for 4 weeks. All of a sudden last night I wasn't able to complete the video/audio. We were able to iChat with writing. The message I got was to go to connection doctor.
The error log -
2011-04-24 19:33:43 -0400: No data has been received for the last 10 seconds.
Audio channel info: local machine using 10.0.1.2:16402, expecting remote machine to send to 69.138.244.124:58521
Video channel info: local machine using 10.0.1.2:16402, expecting remote machine to send to 69.138.244.124:58521
Every time we tried to connect I got the same error message.
I use an airport extreme - my granddaughter has some kind of wifi - but the error was on my side not hers as she connected to her friends.
Please help.
Thank you.

Hi - I have a cable modem from comcast.
I am not sure I understand all your questions, suggestions - so I will copy what I have when I go into the airport utility under internet.
Do you have four tabs (You may have less) I HAVE 4 TABS
In the First tab what does it read at the Bottom ? AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST TAB (INTERNET CONNECTION) IT DOES SAY "SHARE A PUBLIC IP" WHEN I LOOK AT THAT SETTING - I COULD CLICK INSTEAD BRIDGE MODE OFF, OR DISTRIBUTE A RANGE OF IP ADDRESSES. BUT FOR NOW THE ONE THAT IT IS ON IS THE SHARE A PUBLIC IP.
"Share a Public IP" ?
Or "Bridge (Off) Mode" ?
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE INFO BELOW. I ALSO HAVE UNDER THE INTERNET CONNECTION TAB - CONNECT USING ETHERNET AND ETHERNET WAN PORT AUTOMATIC (DEFAULT)
THE 2ND TAB IS TCP/IP AND THERE IT LISTS CONFIGURE IPv4: USING DHCP
IP ADDRESS: 69.138.244.124
SUBNET MASK 255.255.248.0
ROUTER ADDRESS 69.138.240.1
DNS SERVER 68.87.73.246 AND 68.87.71.230 (THESE ARE FILLED IN THE BOXES AND NOT CHANGEABLE.
THE 3RD TAB IS DHCP
DHCP BEGINNING ADDRESS 10.0 .1 .2
DHCP ENDING ADDRESS 10.0.1.200
DHCP LEASE IS 1 THEN DAY
4TH TAB NAT
CHECKED IS ENABLE NAT PORT MAPPING PROTOCOL
I HAVE BEEN USING THIS AIRPORT EXTREME FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR.
THE ONLY DIFFERENT ISSUE IS THAT I HAD BEEN TRAVELING AND USED MY DAUGHTER'S AIRPORT EXTREME LAST WEEK. I HAVE NO IDEA ANY OF THAT INFO - BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE AIRPORT EXTREME LISTED IN THE UTILITY IS THE ONE AT MY HOME THAT I AM WITH NOW.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TRY TO HELP ME. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
JUDY
Between that drop down and the tabs should be the info on how it connects to the Modem.
It may list that Puiblic IP.
It may list another LAN IP (one from the Modem)
Does it start 192.168....
Or 172.16 (or up to 172.32....)
Or possibly another 10.... number ?
If the modem is issuing IPs to the LAN there are two things that can effect things
One is the fact the computer gets two IPs (even though the mac can only display one)
And If you used Port Forwarding in the Modem the Place (IP/Computer or device) that it was pointing to may not be the Airport Base Station any more.

Firewire speeds and audio/video with Apple TV

Hello,
I hope someone can give me some advice regarding 400 vs 800 Firewire connections.
After picking up an Apple TV about 8 months back, I have decided to consolidate all the audio/video content on my wife's and my Macbooks.
Looking at grabbing a Mac mini and connecting a large hard disk via Firewire to that to store everything. I don't plan on connecting the Mac mini to the TV...will continue to use the Apple TV unit for that. However, while some some of the content will sync between the Apple TV unit and external hard disk connected to the Mac mini, I figure there will still be a good portion that would be shared/streamed off the external disk as it is viewed or listened to.
I currently have an Airport Extreme network, and I am able to share/stream video and audio from my Macbook to the Apple TV and it works great. My question is, when I add the Mac mini and start streaming/sharing off the external hard disk attached to it, will there be a difference in performance if the drive is connected via 400 Firewire vs an 800 Firewire?
I figure the wireless transfer between the Mac mini and the Apple TV would be the limiting factor, but felt it prudent to at least check if the Firewire connection would have an effect.
If not, then I plan on picking up a cheap, used older model Mac mini with the 400 Firewire port to save some cash. The machine doesn't need to do anything more than stay powered on with the iTunes app running and sending files back and forth to the Apple TV.
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+I figure the wireless transfer between the Mac mini and the Apple TV would be the limiting factor, but felt it prudent to at least check if the Firewire connection would have an effect.+
+If not, then I plan on picking up a cheap, used older model Mac mini with the 400 Firewire port to save some cash.+
No doubt the wireless transfer is the weakest link in the chain. Firewire 800 is substantially faster than 400, so you would gain some future-proofing by going with it. And the 2009 Minis come with Wifi-N, while the older models come with G/B.
A used Mini will usually lack the Apple warranty.
Minis are so handy that you have to ask yourself, why is someone getting rid of it? My somewhat cynical answer is that many Minis being sold on the used market are being gotten rid of because of some lurking problem issue that the owner hasn't been able to resolve.
If you must buy an older model, consider an Apple refurbished Mini, which comes with full warranty and current software.

Weird audio/video offset/ "ghost copies" - please advise

Hello everyone,
I'm helping a friend - who has no computer - with a video project, which I have assembled and post-produced for him from DV tapes in iMovie 09.
Things seemed to work out fine first, but we now run into increasingly bizarre audio/video offset issues, and I'm out of ideas.
The source material for this film (50 minutes) is circa 400 current video clips, 20 stills and 10 older (1999) material - to which we added circa 50 crossfades, 30 voice-overs and 20 music tracks here and there (which, I guess, makes this a mid-size project). We also slowed down a few clips to adapt timing.
Here is what happens:
Around 40 min. into the project, I have muted the sound from quite a few clips and added a music track and voiceover.
Now when editing and previewing this project within iMovie, everything looks and sounds just fine: The sound from the original clips is muted, and the (music + voiceover) audio tracks play back as they should.
But once I export this movie (be it as a tiny 3GP clip or an iDVD project), these scenes will have a third, unwanted audio track added: the original sound from the clips following circa +one minute later+ in the movie - at full level, which is embarrassing, to put it mildly.
E.g., at 40:00, the original sound from the clip at 41:10 is audible with its full level - although both the clip at 40:00 and the one at 41:10 are muted within the project.
Now I tried everything I could think of.
I muted all the clips manually.
I separated the audio from the dubious clips and muted it again, just to make sure.
I threw out several of the older clips (coming from a VHS tape) used in this project.
The only effect this has is that these weird offsets/ "ghost" copies move around; they won't disappear.
I am out of ideas. So here I have an iMovie project which runs fine in iMovie itself - but once exported to iTunes or a DVD, it spits out additional audio material where it shouldn't. Very frustrating, and I cannot pinpoint the source.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26567 describes a similar problem, but this is a 2005 article referring to versions of iMovie and OS X long gone - and the fix it suggests (exporting 12 bit audio to an external FireWire camcorder in 16 bit and re-importing it) is not possible anymore with today's iMovie.
I would really appreciate if someone could gave me a hint what is happening here, and how to fix this problem.
Thank you.

AppleMan1958 wrote:
Are you using any speed effects? Like Fast motion or slow motion?
If you stick to the pre-sets (25%, 50%, 200%, 400%, etc.) sound is handled well.
If you create a custom speed (say 39% or 159%), then sound will be messed up.
I do in fact use such non-standard values for speed.
I will try to reset them and see what it does for the resulting movie.
(And isn't this the kind of bug we wouldn't expect in an Apple product?)
Anyway, thanks for now. I will report if this helps.

Urgent, in the middle of project and missing ALL video effects!!!

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Clip video effects suddenly aren't working on already-exported project!

I exported an iMovie 11 project to iTunes, and then realized I didn't apply color changes to it. I went back into iMovie, then trimmed a clip and it gave me the usual "you have edited your project, you'll have to finalize it again", or whatever it usually says. But then I went to edit the video effects, and no results are showing in the viewer...?

Reboot. For some reason, I had experienced a loss of audio in '11 on a couple of PROJECTS even though I clearly saw the streams still there as welll as the transition effects and after a reboot, they worked again. Plus, check your drive space. Depending on how long the video is, it may be taking up too much space therefore hosing up the memory.
I hope that helps.

Need to find Video Effect Button cuz its not in Inspector

In my iMovie 11 i have audio effect instead of video effects in the inspector.
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It seems that you are opening the Inspector from a clip in the Event Library. Video effects are not available for Event clips. You need to create a Project, then drag clips (or segments of clips) from the Event to the project timeline. For a new Project, select from the menu File > New Project.
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Video Playback Option in "Preferences/Audio-Video Out"

The following did not make it into the User Guide, though it did get into the troubleshooting docs:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332121.html
332121 Video Playback option in Audio/Video Out preferences (Encore DVD)
A new option was added to the Preferences menu of version 2.0 of Adobe Encore DVD. When you select Edit > Preferences > Audio/Video Out, you see an Automatic option in the Video Playback section. This option is selected by default, allowing Encore DVD 2.0 to play video in a Standard Direct3D mode. If the feature is not selected, then video playback will be in GDI mode.
The only reason to deselect this option is in the case of poor preview playback or black video. In order for the change in preference to take effect, you must close the Monitor panel and then reopen it.
Background information
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The default setting for Encore DVD 2.0 is comparable to Premiere Pro's Standard mode (Direct 3D). When the Automatic option is deselected, it is comparable to Premiere Pro's Compatible mode (GDI).
If Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 detects a Direct 3D error when previewing in Standard mode, it switches to Compatible mode. Encore DVD 2.0 does not have this capability, nor does it provide the same option in the User Interface for the user to switch between the three display modes. This is why the Automatic option was included in the Audio/Video Out preferences.

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
Sounds like you've been shooting at p ("progressive") frame rate (..24p or similar).
iMovie can't handle that (..except for JVC's 720p footage..) and it thinks that each frame is a "field" (..half a frame). It therefore plays those frames at double speed, thinking that there should be two 'fields' to a single frame.
Did you shoot at a "p" frame-rate..? If so, you'll need to convert the material, with some other program, so that iMovie can handle it.
I can't remember offhand what software might do this, but if you were shooting in HDV hi-def (which is recorded in the camera using the MPEG-2 video system) you may be able to use MPEG Streamclip (click on that blue link) to "unscramble" your material.

Problem with audio configuration that affects audio/video playback

Recently, when I watch video on i tunes that sound and picture to not match up. Sound seems to be on-time but the picture is jerky and behind. I un-installed my video driver and reinstalled. Problem persisted. I started my computer in safe mode and it said there was a problem with the audio configuration that effected audio/video playback. I uninstalled i-tunes and re-installed and the problem still persisted. I'm at my wits end and it is driving me crazy. Windows Vista is automatically updated so that's not the problem. Please help.

Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: iTunes for Windows: iTunes has detected an audio configuration problem

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I came across a video effect in a song found here (found from 0:53 till 1:30) where the screen goes completely white for a fraction of a second in a smooth manner and the picture returns again after that.
In fact i also want the effect of the fast forwarding of the video (audio remains the same) for a few seconds, which can also be found in the same clip in the same duration as i stated earlier... But till now i haven't been so successful at applying these...
Can you please help me out? Thanks!

For the "flash to white" you might take Paul's suggestion and invert it, i.e. placing the white matte on the Video Track (VT) above your footage, and Keyframing its Opacity. Personally, I'd look at doing this with Keyframing of Levels and cutting in a few frames of the white matte. Not sure about PE's Levels Effect (might look into some of the other "brightness" Effects too), but I'd be doing this in PrPro, which has a few more similar Effects.
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An older Sci-Fi parody, "Ice Bandits" used a bit of stop motion freeze-framing and also under-cranking of the camera, for both Audio & Video, to create a humorous take on this Effect. If you can get a copy of that (might be on DVD?), look at the battle-scenes near the end. Heavy makeup changes were also incorporated to simulate "aging" when the action was sped up. The Time Remapped Audio contributed to the humor aspect, as the voices took on a "chipmunk-like" sound, and even the SFX were sped up too.
I don't see much real stop motion anymore in video, as much can be done in post. Back in the cine days, it was used for all sorts of effects. Jack Boseburg did a three-film trilogy, called "Trolley," that incorporated a lot of real stop-motion camera work. In his film, he controlled the camera with an intervelometer. I doubt that you could find a copy of this, however, as it was never commercially released.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Only looking for hours?
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/RedneckTexasXmas/index.html
A "movie" made from still images and some sound tracks. All made using QuickTime Pro.
The "transitions" were made by taking the still images and adding them "scaled" to a ten second audio track. The audio was deleted so then I had about 50 little ten second videos. Two of these videos were merged into one file using:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/samplemakeeffectmovie/index.html
Thousands of combinations can be created.
They were all added over another QT track (map of Texas) and their position and transparency levels and layers were adjusted. Last I copied all of this file and added it "scaled" to my two sound tracks.
The "filters" can be accessed via the Export "Movie to QuickTIme Movie" but they are applied to the entire file at export. If you wish to use more than one filter you should first create separate files from your source project.
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Copy video effects only?

So I love that I can copy a clip, and quickly paste its effects onto any other clip... But is there a way to copy or paste only the video effects? Pasting effects currently pastes all audio keyframes as well... Which is extremely un-useful when I've already adjusted audio on clips I'm wanting to paste video effects to.
E.g., I'm now having to go through a 40-minute wedding ceremony again because my workflow involves color correcting as one of the last steps in the process (and probably the most common way to do it in the industry)... Copying/pasting effects onto other clips resulted in all my audio adjustment work being undone. Kinda annoying.
So is there a way to copy only video effects? If not, guess I need to switch around my workflow a bit.

@ 1 Open Loop — Done. =)
@ 909one — Close, but it defeats the purpose of being able to quickly copy and paste adjustments (and minor tweaks) to clips.

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I am having some trouble with Premiere ProCS5. I have a project with a few clips which I put together in one sequence. I put this sequence into another sequence. There I will add one or two tracks of additional images and apply color correction.
The problem is: None of the video effects I drag onto the sequence (which now is a nested sequence) have any effect. Whatever I change in the effect controls will not sho up in the monitor. Audio effects do work, though. Furthermore, none of the tracks above the nested clip are displayed. To clarify: The nested track is on V1, another clip is on V2 and an image is on V3. Only V1 gets displayed.
I know this is supposed to work and it actually does in another project created in the same version on the same machine with the same kind of material. But no matter how often I create a new project, applying video effects to a nested sequence just does not work.
Even more strange is the fact that my applied effects DO show up in the "Export Settings" window. They DON'T, however, in the final rendered file. I would suggest this is a bug.
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Hi all, I'm posting this in both the Logic and Mainstage forums.
I've created an entire show that will be scripted from beginning to end and want all the audio/video elements to be in sync with each other, played back from my Mac Book Pro, feeding an audio interface and a VGA output to a projector.
What is the best and most stable program/solution for running multiple audio stream playback (one stereo wav file, one mono wav file, and a live vocal channel), along with several different video clips, on a timeline?
I have numerous songs or medleys that will be played live, along with a stereo backing track, as well as a mono click track (in sync, obviously). The fourth track, and this is optional, but ideal, would be to process the lead vocal channel live through the same timeline, with effects changing at specific moments in the song.
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Additionally I could see using a MIDI track to send program change information to the lighting desk....but that's down the road.
If this happens inside Logic, is there a way to set up chapter markers so that I can start and stop playback, and jump to the next marker?
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inside Logic, is there a way to set up chapter markers so that I can start and stop playback, and jump to the next marker?
Yes. Markers are helpful, and they're easy to work with, especially if you learn to control them with the keyboard. Here are some relevant key commands. They are all available by default (i.e., there's no need to load a particular key command preset):
⌃K Create Marker
⌘↩ Rename Marker
⌘⌫ Delete Marker
⌃, Go to Previous Marker
⌃. Go to Next Marker
As you're scrolling through the project to create Markers, it helps to know about these commands:
, Rewind
. Forward
⇧, Fast Rewind
⇧. Fast Forward
If you have the US preset loaded, the commands are a little different, as follows:
⇧⌘' Create Marker
⌘↓ Delete Marker
⌃⌘← Go to Previous Marker
⌃⌘→ Go to Next Marker
It makes no sense that the US preset uses these more difficult keystrokes. It uses the other keystrokes (⌃K, ⌘⌫, ⌃, and ⌃.) for no other purpose. This is one of several reasons that I tend to avoid the US preset.
Anyone confused by any of those symbols can find an illustrated guide here or here.

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