Headline Newspaper effect on footage

Is there an effect where I can make a freeze frame look like it's apart of a headline newspaper? Meaning, the subjects look like their on a front page of a newspaper.
Message was edited by: dcmhutch

Looks like http://www.extranewspapers.com/Downloads/Newspaper-Templates-for-Microsoft-Word/
would waste their time. Google is great.
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*, *, *, *, "hdv4" ~ *, *, *, *, "r7hf", *
*, *, *, *, "hdv5" ~ *, *, *, *, "r7hf", *
*, *, *, *, "hdv6" ~ *, *, *, *, "r7hf", *
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Secondly: Everyone uses proxies! They all do. Even realtime systems such as flame* merely live by using lower-res placeholders in many situations or lowering the actual on-screen render resolution. In addition, they simply pre-render a lot, which is only logical, considering that the required processing would otherwise prevent realtime playback anyways, regardless of available other resources. It really boils down to those systems rendering the frame and storing it to disk rather than doing RAM previews.
The only thing that really makes a difference is that these systems can do this to some degreee in an automated fashion and as a background process while still doing work in the foreground. That's probably the part where AE is lame, but then again you can always buy NucleoPro to get this functionality to some extent.
As an last item, it also comes down how you understand to use your program. Obviously AE has a disk cache, but of course it won't be of any use if you are constantly invalidating it by doing all your work in one big 500 layer comp. Therefore be smart: pre-compose! If the key lives in its own comp, it will only be rendered once and then cached to disk.
As for the rest - at some point correctly rendering everything is inevitable for screening purposes. You simply cannot expect to preview your work and get final approval on your workstation, regardless how perfectly it may be calibrated to match the final output.
So to conclude: You pretty much only need to establish a workflow that allows you to take advantage of your hardware resources. Get a hellishly fast RAID, use pre-composing in a sensible manner, have a decent graphics card andm ake use of pre-composing and, if you wanan afford it, NucleoPro's features. With that, you can much more rely on playback from scratch disks rather than spending endless hours for RAM previews and worrying about that they always seem to not last long enough.
Mylenium

After Effects - Only Rendering Certain Parts of My Video

Hey there,
I'm in the process of creating a videos in AE but when I go to render the footage it only seems to render say 2 minutes of 10.
Can someone clarify why this is for me?

We can't know. Your post is completely devoid of any useful info like system specs, version of AE, render settings, comp settings, effects and footage used and whatnot. you have to do a million times better if you expect answers to your problem.
Mylenium

Problem with applying effects in iMovie

Students are having problems whenever they apply video effects to footage. So far they have tried 'Adjust colours, B&W and brightness contrast' When applying the above effects the screen became pixelated. The students pressed apply anyway and the effect appeared to be applied but everytime they tried to playback their film, it froze when it reached the scenes that had an effect applied to them.
Many thanks
Andrea

IM6 originally was designed for OS 10.3.9 and works well with higher. I use 10.3.9 myself with no problems.
With your various computers and operating systems you may be getting a mismatch of iLife programs. A lot of times an outdated Quicktime can cause problems. 3rd party plug-ins can cause problems as well.
Before you do anything, make sure that your computers have at least 20GB of free space on your boot drive, after loading your project. Then I would try the oft applied maintenance of deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app found in HD/Applications/Utilities. In the left hand pane of the Disk Utility window seclect your hard drive icon and then click on repair permissions. Takes about 3 minutes to repair. Then relaunch iMovie and see if you still have the problem. iMovie will recreate the .plist file that you deleted.
Also, iMovie playback is pretty low resolution. Your final burned project will display much better. You might try a quick share to iDVD, takes just a few minutes, and play back the project in iDVD. You should get much better resolution there, and a smoother playback.
I am reluctant to suggest updating programs for fear of possibly causing or aggravating any mismatches with the various machines and operating systems that you have in use. So I will leave that to your own discretion. As I mentioned, an outdated Quicktime can sometimes cause problems.
Perhaps others will post with more suggestions.
Good luck with this.

I have recently received a project from someone who has already captured the footage, can I use the footage directly from the capture scratch for my new project?

Will this in any way effect my footage when working/exporting? I will be working off the same hard drive.

If all the footage played in FC to begin with and all the media is included in the capture scratch folder you should be good to go but I would check a few things.
Pull the new footage into your project and look under the compressor column. If any files are H264 or MP4 I would recommend converting these to a PR422 or another FC friendly format. Also confirm any audio only files are aiff/48Khz(not mp3 or 44.1Khz).
In my experience you can work with H264,MP4, mp3 & 44.1 in FC7 but you are almost guaranteed to have problems later.

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