CS4 video effects

In Premiere CS4.1, I am now working on color correction (using basic Adobe RT effects). In effects control, after I have the proper effect settings, as soon as I lift my finger off the mouse the clip goes back to the original colors. This happens with all other effects that I try to apply.
Is there a setting that I need to change?
Thanks!

OK, got them. Regarding the uploading, I have found that the forum software does have problems with long file names and also spaces. It seems to take a few spaces, but chokes on more. I've taken to naming my files in the old way, with the _ in lieu of spaces. I've not tested to see at what point the spaces cause problems, but just use the underscore key to separate the words, and keep the titles rather short. Maybe someone can add the exact details, as my observations are just that - observations with no emperical experiments.
Now, looking at the Effects Control Panel with the Color Correction adjustments up, I cannot see any change in the adjustments between the "LMB Pushed," and the "LMB Released." I do see the difference in the Program Monitor display. Between these two screen-caps, what was changed? It might just be that when you went to do the screen-cap, those values reverted to the default, or original settings and were not captured, though their effects were still applied, hence the difference in the Program Monitor.
Besides which values were changed and what they were changed to, can you tell me exactly how you made the change? Did you "scrub" the value (I forget the exact term that Adobe uses for click-dragging across the values, but it's basically "scrubbing."), or did you type in a new value?
If you scrubbed, can you try typing in the desired value? Did that keep the adjustment?
I'm trying to see if this is maybe a problem with your mouse and its driver, or maybe with your GUI display, or if it's something in the Effects Control Panel's handling of the value input.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - I would imagine that having to go from dual-monitors to single for a screen-cap would be a bit of extra work. You should be able to use Workspaces to go back and forth easily, especially back to your dual-monitor setup. Still, having to rearrange those Panels, when in single-monitor view, would be some extra work. I had not thought about that, as I do most of my screen-caps from my laptop, and not from my dual-monitor workstation. Sorry about making you jump through hoops!

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AE video effects vs. PP video effect-CS4

Can someone tell me authoritatively if the AE video effects as a whole are superior to PP? I'm thinking the answer has to be yes, but what about color correction for 720p footage for subjects [faces]?
If you believe AE is superior, what is your opinion about Auto Color/Contrast/Levels, especially vs. PP Fast Color Corrector/Levels/Auto Color, etc.? I'm trying to avoid major expenditures on Magic Bullet products since my projects are only standard studio interviews and do not call for anything high caliber.
Thank you for your feedback.
Paul

Hi Rick.
I really appreciate the link to the free Colorista. I didn't know they had a free version. I'm looking forward to trying it, hopefully later today.
In the meantime, you were very gracious in asking for a screen shot. I'm giving you two, both raw footage shot on an Panasonic HVX-200p at 720p60. The first is what I'd consider shot with good lighting and the second, well, speaks for itself.
As you noted, this is an interview destined for a DVD curriculum (not a movie). I have to chroma key a background in AE anyway, so I was thinking that AE would be the best place to do this. Todd seemed to suggest in this thread that the AE & PP color correction tools are identical or at least work identically (the settings are the same), and that PP was in fact better for "quick color correction to an entire image", which is what I am looking to do since the whole thing was shot poorly with the key light too far away. I did do a quick test in AE using AutoColor and adjusted the White Clip down to .05% and got a pretty good result except that the inner eye sockets still looked very dark. Colorista may change the discussion entirely, however.
I deeply appreciate your willingess to help so actively.
Paul
Update: Just tried Colorista Free. The Highlight Control alone worked wonders. Looking forward to learning how to use it more. A very superior product.
Highlight adjusted only in Colorista Free, applied directly to the clip:

How to save video effects for title templates?

I just started playing with Premiere Pro CS4.
I have a beginners question, hope you don't mind:
In my video I use a third-low title to tell the name of songs played. I put them in a bin, basically just copy the first one and change the names in the copies. But when I add them to the timeline I noticed it looks much more professional to add a video-effect where opacity goes from 0 to 100% in a second, and then the other way at the end.
My problem is that I seem to have to do this over and over again, for each title. Is there a simple way to make one title-template, put it on the timeline, add video-effects, and then save that and make copies just changing the text in time-line? That would save me a lot of work, and the video-effects would be consistent in looks and timing.
Thanks for any hints or tips for this newbie.
/Ronny

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Premiere Elements 7: track matte key video effect does not work?

I want to use the track matte key video effect to fade out some cropped video clips. So I did a test:
first track: video clip
second track: PNG file, black with white circle
third track: video clip with FX with second track (here: Video 5) and luminance
As you can see in the picture the small preview pic above the effects shows the effect like I expected: a circle with the content of the third, lowest, clip. But the large video preview shows the first clip.
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I tested other settings and track orders. No efforts.

Bill, thanks again for your help! Good tutorial. That's what I need in principle! My try was a bit more complicated ...
But I can't help. The white area stays (see screenshot top left corner). Only some of the small blurred area around the shape shines through as I could see playing around without blurring the video clip.
I used:
title with white (it is 100% white) shape and blur effect above
video clip with track matte effect and matte alpha on the title track, reversed (blur effect on whole clip like in the tutorial)
Rendering and export does not change anything.
I'm feeling a bit stupid.

How do I add a video effect to multiple clips in my timeline at once?

How do I add a video effect to multiple clips in my timeline at once?

or... you can command click to select all the clips you want to apply the effect to, then double click the effect in the Effects browser. (PS - you can't simply drag and drop an effect on multiple clip selections, the effect will only be applied to the clip you drop it on -- but double clicking the effect will apply it to all selected clips at once.)

CS4 After Effects no longer loading after installing Office 08

During the christmas break I installed Office 08 and its seamed to have mucked something up in CS4 After effects because it won't load anymore, the program starts loading the libraries and all that stuff at the splash screen and crashes when loading User interface
After effects worked fine before I installed office 08. Does anyone know what has happened and how to fix it? The strange thing is, it works on a couple of macs but the majority of the lab is having this problem.
I have tried heaps of things:
- Totally uninstalled office 08 and its preferences
- Uninstall CS4 and manually remove all the preference files
- Locate the fonts folders and comparing the fonts with that of a working mac
- Creating a new login account
- Updated to After effects 9.0.2
After spending hours and hours and hours doing this, I have had no luck solving the issue. Help will be greatly appreciated... I will backup all the data and re-install Leopard next week if no-one knows how to fix this.
Here is part of the error message that i have reported to adobe and haven't had a reply
Process:         After Effects [139]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/Adobe After Effects CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/After Effects
Identifier:      com.adobe.AfterEffects
Version:         9.0 (9.0)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [93]
Interval Since Last Report:          204 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 148 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Date/Time:       2010-03-17 11:13:10.239 +1100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 93AB0F34-3CF9-41AE-A9E5-21738DB3269F
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000008
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91ccce42 __kill + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91d3f23a raise + 26
2   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91d4b679 abort + 73
3   U.dylib                       0x029a529f U_LoadFrameworkBundle + 671
4   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91ccb2bb _sigtramp + 43
5   com.macromedia.FLVExporter    0x2ba2ded5 FLVCore::Initialize(__CFBundle*) + 657
6   com.macromedia.FLVExporter    0x2ba45c32 FLVExporter::FLVExporter(ComponentInstanceRecord*) + 130
7   com.macromedia.FLVExporter    0x2ba46005 FLVExportOpen + 37
8   com.macromedia.FLVExporter    0x2ba468ca FLVExportComponentDispatch + 130
9   ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x957b2935 CallComponentDispatch + 29
10 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x957b2915 CallComponentOpen + 43
11 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x957b0fb1 OpenAComponent + 449
12 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x957b0dea OpenComponent + 24
13 ...dobe.AfterEffects.framework 0x00fe574c FEE_GetMotionTrackCmdAttrs(long, bool, bool, long, char*, bool*) + 512746
14 ...dobe.AfterEffects.framework 0x00fe58fb FEE_GetMotionTrackCmdAttrs(long, bool, bool, long, char*, bool*) + 513177
15 ...dobe.AfterEffects.framework 0x00fe7d5c FEE_GetMotionTrackCmdAttrs(long, bool, bool, long, char*, bool*) + 522490
16 ...dobe.AfterEffects.framework 0x00ce44db CEggApp::IEggApp(bool, bool, boost::function0<void, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >) + 17347
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21 com.adobe.AfterEffects        0x00004f62 _start + 216
22 com.adobe.AfterEffects        0x00004e89 start + 41
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2   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91c90012 thread_start + 34
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2   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91cd6539 pthread_cond_wait + 48
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The failure appears to be in the FLV QuickTime component, which is an FLV exporter for QuickTime that Adobe Flash (or older Macromedia releases) installs into your [root]/Library/QuickTime folder. After Effects loads any such component that QuickTime makes available (they appear under the File > Export menu).
First, try deleting the com.macromedia.FLVExporter in your [username]/Library/Preferences folder, if present. Failing that, pull out the FLV QuickTime component I described above.
It is also theoretically possible that the failure is in the next component in the QuickTime components folder, not the FLV component. You might could just pull out the entire contents of that folder and see what happens.
-=TimK
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What video effect for color desaturation? (e.g. Hue/Saturation in Photoshop)

Hi all,
What is the Premiere equivalent of the HUE/SATURATION adjustment layer found i Photoshop ? I am trying to slightly desaturate (about -53%) my movie to give it a more gritty look. I could easily get the look I wanted in Photoshpo by going to NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER-->HUE/SATURATION.
Is there a similar approach for Premiere? In the Video effects folder somewhere? Thanks!

Use the "Fast Color Corrector and "Saturation".

What are the video effects used in this video

I was just wondering if anybody could help me. I was intrigued to find out what kind of video effect is used in this video at 0:16 - 0:18 and if theres a name for this type of video and editing used throughout the video such as the continous stream of different videos etc.

Do you mean the distorted lips or the bad tv reception.
The distorted lips can be anything from Bulge to Mesh Warp to Liquefy.
The bad TV reception can be started with the Bad TV Effects Presets that comes with AE. You can modify or edit these as you like.
I know of no specific style name that goes along with any part of this video other than lazy. It looks like nobody had an idea of what they wanted to do so they just shot a bunch of stuff and threw every effect they had in their bag of tricks at the project. Turn off the sound and it's impossible to tell what it is about. I don't mean to be critical but there's not much original here that I haven't seen a zillion times going back to the Video Toaster days. (probably before you were born). It's nothing more than a bunch of quick cuts and jitter.
Load up about 100 layers, trim them do different lengths from 5 to 30 frames, Select half of them, apply Bad TV1 to that bunch, Apply Bad TV2 to the another 10 random layers. Add tint, bulge, to a few more. set a couple of position and rotate keyframes to a few more then add wiggle to those, then use the Keyframe Assistant to sequence the layers and you'll be pretty close. It should take you about 15 minutes.
If you've got a specific question about how they made this jitter or how they made time stutter ask away. If used to tell a story these techniques are all useful. If you just want to create a jarring montage then follow my suggestion in the previous paragraph then run Brainstorm a couple of times.

Help with adding video effects.

Okay, so I am very new with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, and decided to start working with video effects.
So far I can add an effect onto a video clip that I dragged down from the source monitor, but that applies the effect to the whole video track. I want it to start and end at a certain point.
I have read the Adobe Help Viewer on effects many times over and over, but still, I cannot get it to work.
I have set in and out put points in my Timeline, and went into the effects controls and peaked around, but have had no success at all with getting my effect to start and end at a certain point.
Can anyone help me out a little bit? I'm sure you are all Pro's at this, haha.

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Is it possible to set IN/OUT points for video effects within a single clip in PE4?

Hello,
In PE4, Is it possible to use keyframes to simply turn certain video effects on/off at different points within a single clip ?
Some effects (i.e. Invert)have a Blend With Original setting which makes this easy to achieve, but others (i.e. Ripple)do not.
I understand how to use keyframes to adjust effect properties at different points within a clip, I just can't find a way to simply 'turn-off' or bypass an effect for a period of time.
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Chris,
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I am sure I am overlooking something simple, but I have read through all documentation and this forum and nothing seems to be working. I have set "Show Advanced Options" from preferences.
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fcpx 10.0.9, mac osx 10.8.5
video effects do not respond when scrolling over them (after having selected a clip), or turn black or pink. no preview available.
when moving them on top of a clip, they cannot be adjusted.
not all effects have this problem. only the Looks effects.
all settings of these effects are also set automatically to min. or max. when putting them on top of a clip.
I have reïnstalled FCPX, Motion and Compressor, without result.
It is also not possible to render or export/share the video directly within fxpx or compressor. Compressor scips all color corretion.
I have to make an 10bit uncompressed file first, then import in compressor. Then it works...
I cannot switch to fcpx 10.1, because ProTools is not working with Mavericks yet...
anyone experienced this before?
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done that. didn't help.
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Hi I've just got the new iMac with iMovie 08. Does anyone know how I can get into the video effects and the slow/fast/reverse function?

I've just got the new iMac with iMovie 08. Does anyone know how I can get into the video effects and the slow/fast/reverse function?
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a single vhs tape containing six hours of video is captured to mpg format. as you can imagine, the quality is lower than one might like. studying every video effect offered by pp4 would take me a lifetime. can you suggest a few effects i might look at for improving the quality of this low quality video?
--david (neophyte pp4 user)

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Video Effect to reduce lighting overexposure

Hey Everybody,
I am new to this forum and this my first post, so first off i'd like to say hi to everybody.
I am working on editing video i shot of a musician performing in a coffee house and am wondering which video effect to use in Final Cut Express 4 to remove or reduce lighting overexposure.
The ambient lighting in the coffee house was turned down via a dimmer to give the show more of an intimate feel to the video. There was a spotlight set up about five feet off the ground and approx. 2 feet to the left of the singer and slightly in front of the singer. This is the light source that is giving me problems with overexposure from time to time when she leans or steps forward.
I have supplied links to a couple of the videos as i have them posted on youtube but i want better quality video for the DVD i am making for the musician.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4gjLR-z4dU&feature=related
This next link gives a visual as to were the spotlight is set up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY8ySli2eNo
Another another note, i would like to know how to get rid of the red dot in the video. I am not sure of the source, i thought it might be a broken pixel within the camcorder but that red dot doesn't show up in any of my other videos i've shot.
Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Thank You.
I will give that plugin a try.
I won't be able to do a reshoot as i was filming a concert (with permission) so i only had one shot to get good video.
I've only been filming and editing music shows for three months now so i am still fairly new in the experience department and have some questions for curiosity sake and for future reference.
What do you mean by decode on a reshoot?
What is a field monitor and how do you check that its properly calibrated.
I have a Canon DC 330 SD Camcorder so it doesn't have an external iris adjustment, i do believe it has an internal iris adjustment. According to the user manual there is a built in manual exposure adjustment. Is the manual exposure adjustment the same thing as the iris?

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