Film Presets

I've packaged some basic Premiere Pro presets for everyone. It includes the old Film Fades from a ways back (the built-in Adobe version of the Film Fade doesn't really emulate a genuine film fade all that well), as well as some Letterboxing presets for both 16:9 and 4:3 media.
Unzip the file, and from the Presets bin do a Right Click>Import Presets...
The In/Out fades are based on the standard 1 second duration. If you need more or less, you'll have to adjust the keyframes.
The Title fade is based on the standard 5 second duration, so again longer or shorter titles will require a keyframe adjustment.
The Letterboxing presets are based on the Crop effect, after doing the math to determine how much should be cropped to get the desired result. The 16:9 options work equally well on SD or HD media. The 4:3 are obviously for SD only. The presets can be applied directly to a clip, to a nested sequence, or in CS6, to an Adjustment layer.
Enjoy.
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Hi Jim. I have downloaded your presets and used the letterbox in my videos, but it seems after a recent PP CC update the letterbox preset doesn't play nice with my timeline. I added the 2:35 letterbox to an adjustment layer and I have the adjustment layer over all the clips in my timeline. But for some reason the letterbox preset is causes my timeline to jump and stutter on certain parts especially on parts of the video that have dissolves. I know for sure its the preset because when I disable it, the video plays perfect, or if I remove a section of the adjustment layer with the preset the video plays fine. Can you assist on why this happens?

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Hi ssprengel,
Here's some clarification:
Here's a screenshot of my raw image in lightroom without any presets:
Here is a screenshot of my raw image with the presets (the way I want it to look upon export):
Here is a of the jpeg exported out of LR:
(on my screen the jpg looks like what it should when I attach it, but I know once I post this it will not look like it. That's something I noticed when I posted my question previously)
I took you suggestion and re-imported the sRGB exported JPEG and it looks like how it is supposed to be with the correct saturation. Here's a screenshot of the jpeg reimported.
Here is a screenshot comparing the LR5 preview to the Photos preview on Windows 8. The LR5 (left) is more saturated, the correct way I want it:
I cannot use Windows Photo Viewer because this is how my photos look like in it:
Hope this all makes sense! Thank you so much in advance!

"Must-have" Presets for Aperture 3

Looking for suggestions/recommendations for "must have" presets. I have a couple from the old MacCreate site (B&W and Color Film presets). Looking for suggestions/recommendations that rival those available for LR4.

Presetpond.com is one resourse.
http://www.aperture-presets.com is another.
Go through and pick the nicest looking ones, download them and then weed through them all one by one, keeping only the best.
Then be a nice chap and come back here to let us know what you came up with.!.!

Question about Aperture Presets

I've been using Aperture 3 for a few years now and have collected a number of adjustment presets. I was wondering if there is a way of finding out by looking at a any particular version which preset might have been used on that image? It's easy to tell if adjustments have been made to any image, but not if the adjustments made were part of a preset or not. I know I can lift and stamp any adjustments, but sometimes I'd like to know what preset was used to make a particular version. As an example, I've recently been using VSCO Film presets with some pretty good results, and often times I'll go back to a particular image and I can't tell if the adjustments I made were part of a VSCO Film preset and which particular preset was used. Is there a simple way of finding this out? Does anyone else think this would be a good thing to be able to find out?
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I use Keywords for external editors (PTLens, PS, Hugin, various Nik tools, etc.), but I would advise you to think hard on whether you want to use them for Adjustment Presets. As Frank pointed out, the Preset is in no way absolute: it's simply a collection of Adjustments, any one of which can be disabled, changed, or deleted. It's simply a way to batch-apply Adjustments.
All the information you need to know about what you've done to create a Version from a Master is directly in front of you: the Bricks and their settings as shown in the Adjustments tab of the Inspector. You can likely tell at a glance if you started with your VSCO Preset.
You might get part-way to your goal by creating Smart Folders that filter for Images that have all of the Adjustments used in your Preset. Of course the grouping "these Adjustments are included in Preset X" is not likely to be unique.

Camera Profiles in LR 5.4 missing

When trying to use VSCO film presets today, I've decided to check Camera Profile inside Camera Calibration in Lightroom. To my surprise profile would never change whenever I applied a new preset. It consistently showed Adobe Standard profile. In the drop-down menu the only profiles that show are the default: Adobe Standard, Camera Faithful, Camera Landscape, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait, Camera Standard.
I made sure I'm working on RAW files.
I remember that a moth ago I was still able to see the entire huge list of VSCO camera profiles in that drop-down menu.
The Presets menu continues to show presets correctly as before.
I've checked and all those Camera Profiles (.dcp files) are as before located in /Username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles
Also a few of my XRite Passport calibration profiles located in that folder do not show in LR.
I even tried moving them to the main /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles, but it didn't fix the problem.
In a couple of forums I've read that downloading and installing the newest Adobe DNG Converter 8.4 can reset some of the index files, but it didn't work for me.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions!
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OSX 10.9.3
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Here are troubleshooting steps I've performed on those profiles from the default folder (not the VSCO profiles!):
1 - Moved Canon 5DmkIII profiles from Mac/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Camera/Canon EOS 5D Mark III folder to Mac/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles - didn't help
2 - Moved Canon 5DmkIII profiles from Mac/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Camera/Canon EOS 5D Mark III to rafaelswit/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles - didn't help either
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High Res Titling

Hi there,
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I tried to change my DPI to the max value that Livetype allows which is 350. Since there was a difference in the default settings of 80 to 72 dpi for width and height, I set the width at 350 and height at 315. However, after doing this, my text has disappeared off the face of the canvas.
Any ideas?
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DPI is irrelevant in video. How is that?
Whether you view your movie on a 15" or 52" screen, they have the same number of pixels, assuming both display the same format. A more detailed explanation can be found [here|http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html].
Regardless of where you make your titles and at what DPI setting, they all get rendered to the *pixel dimensions* of your sequence in FCP.
Assuming your HD Cam footage is 1920x1080 then that is what you should set LiveType to.
LiveType always outputs in the Apple Animation codec. Their is no other choice.
If you were to make your titles in Photoshop, you would choose one of the Video & Film presets from the File > New command that matches the pixel dimensions of your sequence and design your text to fit. One exception would be if you were intending to zoom or pan the Photoshop file in Motion or FCP. Then you would make it larger.
Of course with LiveType set up correctly, the zoom or pan can be made there and will take advantage of the fact that typefaces use vector scaling. They will be sharp at any size.
More titling tips [here|http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles.php].

Disappearing Illustrator Layers/Assets, AE CS5

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First my specs, just in case:
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I'm having the strangest issues with adobe illustrator layers in my timeline... they keep disappearing at random moments during playback. Somtimes its during RAM preview, somtimes its when I'm scrubbing the timeline, but never at the same point and it doesn't seem to be consistant for which layers dissapear or appear. To be clear, the layers themselves are not disappearing in the timeline, but in my active view/camera.
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I have found the genesis of our problems. I first noticed this on a project where I was using Illustrator (CS5) artwork supplied by a designer. He was using the "Film/Video" presets to make an HD formatted AI file. I liked how handy the grids and title safeties were so I kept using the preset on other projects. Thats when I started noticing artwork disappearing. I had to purge it at multiple points in my timeline just to get a render out.
When I read richardbwallace's idea to look for the second artboard and delete it, everything clicked into place. Instantly everything came back. I have a feeling that Adobe needed to add that artboard to make something in the film and video presets to work the way they do and didn't anticipate or test for this issue.
I have not checked if other presets use the same double artboard trick, but if one of them does, I bet it will cause the same problems.
tl;dr - Video and Film presets in AI add extra artboards which cause the issue.

Why are my five second dissolves and keyframes reduced to one second by H264s?

I am a rookie and have a dissolve problem.
I want to fade in a title over five seconds--and have done it successfully in the timeline with cross-dissolve and with keyframed opacity.
Both ways look fine in the timeline but when I burn an H264 the title dissolves in about one second instead of the slow dissolve of five seconds I want.
Wierdly, when I burn an H264 of the title clip alone it fades in the desired five seconds, but when I burn it with other clips it only goes for five seconds.
Also I put both cross-dissolve and keyframed opacity on the title clip in the timeline, it burned with the five second dissolve I wanted, but I have so many transitions, it will take the rest of my lifetime to put those two things in manually.
I see the post about the Film Presets that Jim Simon posted back in May 2012. I am wondering if using a preset of some kind would solve the problem…

When I de-selected Use Maximum Render Quality on the Encoder I got my five second dissolves back.
Don't know why, but ignorance is bliss!
Hopefully this will help someone else as confused as I was.

Blank illustrator layers?

Here's a new problem I've discovered: after importing illustrator layers, then saving project, close project, re-open project...illustrator layers are blank. After clicking purge, layers show up. This only works for layers that are actively being viewed (either in layer window or comp window) So, for layers that are further down in the timeline, they remain invisible until you park on that frame and click purge. Turning off multiprocessing has no effect. Yesterday I went through 1800 frames to find the ones where the type didn't render. Unacceptable.
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This might apply here, but this is a solve I found and posted to another thread.
I have found the genesis of our problems. I first noticed this on a project where I was using Illustrator (CS5) artwork supplied by a designer. He was using the "Film/Video" presets to make an HD formatted AI file. I liked how handy the grids and title safeties were so I kept using the preset on other projects. Thats when I started noticing artwork disappearing. I had to purge it at multiple points in my timeline just to get a render out.
When I read richardbwallace's idea to look for the second artboard and delete it, everything clicked into place. Instantly everything came back. I have a feeling that Adobe needed to add that artboard to make something in the film and video presets to work the way they do and didn't anticipate or test for this issue.
I have not checked if other presets use the same double artboard trick, but if one of them does, I bet it will cause the same problems.
tl;dr - Video and Film presets in AI add extra artboards which cause the issue.

Better renders in Leopard than Snow Leopard?

Okay, been following the issues between Final Cut Studio 2 and 3...
But is anyone finding the renders from FCP and Compressor of better quality in Leopard rather than Snow Leopard?
Comparing some Apple TV outputs from Final Cut Studio 3 in Leopard and Snow Leopard, it does appear to me that the previous system had sharper and clearer outputs, but I can't be certain since the clips are different material.
SL uses the new Quicktime X framework and Leopard uses Quicktime 7. There are some odd issues popping up with the X player that did not exist in 7, such as 4:3 movies suddenly turning 16:9 with the new player, the stair stepping renders when downsizing with Compressor, unable to adjust video tracks in the new player, etc.
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Well, after some methodical testing, the results are in.
Tested:
Final Cut Studio 3 in Snow Leopard
Final Cut Studio 2 in Leopard
Final Cut Studio 3 in Leopard
I began with a problematic DV clip from 10 years ago from Meissen, Germany using a small Sony DV camera in outdoor / dusk conditions with some bright lights blowing out the image.
In each test, used Final Cut Pro 3-way color correction, broadcast safe filter, and a Magic Bullet Editors "Epic" film preset. Set the timeline to render Pro Res 422 HQ, with all the best timeline render settings.
Exported with current settings, video only, self contained movie.
Into Compressor with the Apple TV settings, which in the Final Cut Studio 2 had to be set manually: 960x720 4:3 HD, H.264, 5000kbs (maximum), single pass, no audio, Frame controls set to progressive fields and all the best render settings. Added two compressor filters, noise reduction and edge sharpening. Aspect ratio was square.
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First test was in Snow Leopard with Final Cut Studio 3. Results -- dull output, fastest render at 17 minutes. Processors were hardly used, perhaps 300% in Activity Monitor.
Created a partition and installed Leopard, and Final Cut Studio 2. Same method above. Results -- crisp, tight output, slowest render at 30 minutes. All processors working 100% (800%)
Then erased and installed Leopard again, installed Final Cut Studio 3. Same method above. Results -- Dull output, medium render speed at 20 minutes. Processor activity was perhaps 400%, though jumping around the entire time.
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I am trying to determine the new project preset for a multi-camera video shot as follows: 3 Canon camcorders,
Main shot is DV (tape) (720x480, 29fps) - ceremony and reception
b-roll is DVD (mini-disk) (720x480, 29fps) - bride preparations
additional b-roll is AVCHD (1920x1080, 29fps) - groom preparations and misc all day ceremony and reception.
Film is from a wedding, DV contains main footage so I assume it will need to be the base. I am planning to use the preset for DV-Widescreen. Is there a better option? I'm concerned about playback as the three appear to have different PAR. I'm using Premiere Elements 10 on W8.
Ultimately this will be burned for two formats - one for a DVD that can be watched on a widescreen TV, second for a short clip trailer to go on vimeo.
(And no I won't be doing this again for a wedding that I shoot.)

VDRAVES
Please review since I am not sure how you obtained Video 3 tall when you scaled Video 3 with Constrain Proportions in effect.
Before
After
It becomes a zoomed in effect to get rid of the black borders. But, there is no tall and thin involved anywhere.
And, after the Scale increase, you can always click on the screen and move the image around a bit
(without overdoing it to get black borders again).
After and an adjust
Please let us know if you are OK with the information above.
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ATR

I filmed with Sony HDR-XR500V using HD HQ - which sequence preset is best?

I filmed on a Sony HDR-XR500V camera using the HD HQ camera setting. According to the manual, this means it's: AVCHD 9Mbps (1440x1080x60i).
I'm editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
Which sequence preset should I use?
AVCHD 1080i30 (60i) Anamorphic
or: AVCHD 1080i30 (60i)
I'm a bit confused, because AVCHD 1080i30 (60i) Anamorphic says "for editing AVCHD Formats recorded in anamorphic 1920x1080 (ex.1440x1080)."
What does "anamorphic 1920x1080 (ex.1440x1080)" mean? What does "ex." stand for? For example? Except?
Thank you for your help.

Hi,
Your manual tells you you have shot your film in 1440x1080 which means it has rectangular pixels which in other words it is anamorphic.
If you made these rectangular pixels into square pixels you get 1920x1080.
Full HD is 1920x1080 with square pixels. It all has to do with aspect ratio. It can be a bit confusing.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS03BF7479-8C7B-4522-8C75-210AD102524Ea.html
If you were to do it correctly your preset should be AVCHD 1080i30 (60i) Anamorphic.
Hope this all makes sense.

Adjustment presets a-la "film type" effects

Are there downloadable presets out there that imitate various film characteristics? For example: Velvia, T-Max, etc...
Or is this outside of Aperture's scope and abilities?

i'm completely intrigued by these presets. i love the idea of having them around. how did you come up with them?
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Best sequence preset for short film with all stills?

Hi,
I'm working on a short film documentary, its all stills, I usually work with video - first time doing all stills. Project looks great in my time line, but when rendering for standard DVD I'm getting lots of odd pixilation in cross fades and fades to black. Not a lot of time to keep testing the hundreds of sequence and render settings. Perhaps not the best choice but I used AVCHD 1080p30.
Anyone know which of the sequence presets would be best for a film with all stills?
Thanks!

Still a little unsure about the render twice. I did use a AVCHD sequence/timeline, but I am exporting using media encoder to MPEG2. I'm guessing by render twice you mean rendering in the timeline after you bring in stills and apply motion, then rendering again when exporting for MPEG2? If thats your meaning, not sure how you get around rendering twice - I mean the motions and timeline still needs to be rendered, or are you saying leave it all to be rendered at the export process?
I can see how the terminology could be confusing. When you Export>Media from Pr, that's the same as Exporting and Rendering (esp. if your output format is different from your Preview format). One way to look at it is that you're rendering a complete single file to a single codec.
Rendering is also a term used to "build" Previews in Pr. That's where your source media - no matter what codec was used - is rendered into the Preview format you selected in your Sequence Settings.
You have options when making a DVD. You can export (while simultaneously rendering) to an intermediate file, such as ProRes for Mac people, and then make your DVD from that. That is "rendering twice." OR... you can simply Export to an MPEG2 from Pr, and make your DVD from that, which would be "rendering once."
Based on what you just wrote, it sounds like you're only "rendering once." But if so, I'm baffled why your fades are blocky.
Maybe it would help if you described how you're making your DVD. I wonder if you're re-transcoding your MPEG2 when you get to Encore (or whatever you're using to make DVDs). That could explain it.

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