OMG Adobe Premiere = teH seckzi

[Amanda Wallace]

Alright, since I've already set up an appointment to go see what the gov'ment can do for my unemployed ass in terms of going back to school, subject line = drafting and design, I've taken more of a step in learning some more of these Adobe CS4 programs. Enter, Premiere Pro. While my Dazzle can't be read in there for some reason (yet, hopefully)... Virtual Dub makes an excellent, clear capture choice, despite the 9 gig+ file size for a fully captured match. (Enjoy the new avatars ) So, from there, I import into Premiere, and as you can see by this dark match for MayheM that I have posted already...

deepimpactent.com/GCW/Video/MayheMFeb/DarkMatchSteelCalloway.wmv

The results are much better. That file is the size of a normal Window's Movie Maker file at that same length, which was around 10MB or so per minute. AND, only 320x240 screen resolution, while this file is a whopping 720x480. WMM was blurry... this is clear. And, I think I'm going to try to up my FPS settings on Vdub, to see if I can hit close to 60 fps, but for right now? Our videos are looking sweet.

Drawbacks: It's like rendering a video in Pinnacle 10... takes a long time to run in Adobe Media Converter... and it takes a LOT to get used to, where as WMM is just simple clicks and I'm done editing a video in like, 5 mins, and the render is almost just another 5. But, I'm in learning mode, so we could benefit some good looking matches for a while here. I've already re-simmed two matches, including the finals, which came out much more competitvely this sim anyways, and I may do the other two matches as well. Well, at least the tag for reasons that I won't say on here...

[bonecrusher]

It's just like any video program to be honest, if you are only putting them together with crossover fade transition. I'd like to see what the program can really do. I have a previous cut down version and it was pretty good but I'd like to know the new features in it.

Brent looked good, just one thing the star design is supposed to be near the bottom instead of the middle. Other than that perfect

Also the match was very entertaining.

[Jerry Massey]

I've been talking about this program for years. Glad to see you got it.

[Amanda Wallace]

Yeah, but go check out one of my Exodus matches compared to the dark match. It's way nicer looking in general. I think WMM was fastest for me to edit in, but this is almost hte same as using PInnacle studio for me, which still never looked good off of my graphics card.

[jj]

I've used countless editing softwares, including Premier Pro, and i gotta say it's not nearly the mbest, but very far from the worst, it's good for basics but you need after effects if you want anything fancy from it. IMO and majority of the film business, Final Cut Pro is the top of the line software, and its funny because the package of it's editing software is cheaper then Adobe's package, and only big difference is Photoshop, which is a great program BUT for the price difference, not worth it. the only problem is Final Cut is mac exclusive, luckily i have one, and that graphic i made for exodus was made on a program that comes with FCS called Live Type, which is a title only editing program, something ADOBE lacks

[Amanda Wallace]

Yeah, from what I'm looking into, it looks like I'll need to incorporate Flash and Photoshop together to get animated titles and gifs and such. I did figure out how to do a logo overlay myself, so the Tag Match, while it won't have entrances in it's re-done state (believe me... the match needed a re-sim anyways, and in my fucking aroudn with everything else i kinda deleted the entrances from my initial wrong setting simming...), it will debut the logo. I'm also running Justin Sane in a dark match too to further play with it, but I think I'm going to look up what I can to get things running right with this program. All in all, I'm getting way faster at editing, and can queue up multiple files to render at once in Adobe Media Encoder. I'll be looking up how to do animated name bars and such, maybe work on putting some animations in on the GCW logo as well for future showings. I have the time to do so now, especially since it looks like I only really have to finish Pryor's abilities since his opponent has yet to post his...

[Scott Manor]

THis is just a guess but this is how I make animations in Gimp. Make the animation into layers and save as gif. i know for sure there's more small steps that you need but i don't use Photoshop so i couldn't tell you for sure.

[Amanda Wallace]

That's what I'm starting to gather from Fireworks. I'm thinking about taking the GCW letters only logo, and trying to run a shine across it, and testing it from there. I'd in actuality, like to get one that has a full 29 fps animation of a rotating circle around it, that even cuts thru the type, but I shudder to think of how bad an animation that'd be, and how long it'd take. Could look like something I could use for this potential filiming cash job I have coming up, that could help me get even more money out of it for some video editing time. Hence, why I'm forcing Premiere down my throat these past two days...

Also, learned the brutal lesson about selecting my template for saving vids... Tag match looks like shit, unless I re-cut and re-encode at high quality download instead of whatever template it ran with.

[Scott Manor]

A GCW shine shouldn't be TOO bad depending on the size of the logo lol. But that depends on your definition of bad lol.

Of course I just learned how to do it on GIMP, but it took me about an hour to do a gif that was like 12-15 layers. but nothing was really by scratch on it just minor edits. The biggest work load came in aligning them perfectly.

creating it from scratch i couldn't tell you since i'm just guessing the alignment would easier to do and i think alignment is the hardest part at least imo.