Otakon Video.... from last year!

[meritot]

Better late than never. VCAs reminded me I had not uploaded our video from Otakon back in June/July. Whoops!

Anywho, here it is:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=180646

Comments

[scintilla72]

I know when I upgraded from Premiere 5.1 to Premiere Pro, the two best things about it for me were the ability to put transitions on any video track (not just Track 1) and the down-to-the-pixel accuracy on controls for almost every effect (especially motion, that always used to be a huge pain in 5.1).

And I also know, because cyannas uses it now, that Premiere Pro CS3 adds variable speed mapping, or whatever they're calling that capability to change a clip's speed over time instead of having to make it one constant speed for the whole length.

Oh, and before anyone tells you otherwise, opacity rubber bands ARE still in Premiere Pro; they're just not visible by default. One of the buttons on the left end of each video track should do it.

[scintilla72]

Heh, one thing they haven't changed in the 10 years since "Failed Experiments in Video Editing" is that the Enter button still renders timeline previews. It's a little different now, though -- any section of the timeline that Premiere thinks it can't play back in real time (due to effects or whatever) is marked in red, and when you render that section it turns green.

Annoyingly, you can't render previews for anything that's not red, even if Premiere really can't actually play it back without skipping. (And yes, this does mean that Premiere can switch from rendered previews to original source footage and back when you're playing the timeline back. The transition is often a rough one.)
My way of getting around this is to stick a white matte at 0% opacity in the highest track for those sections -- that'll turn it red so you can force a preview. That, and/or just keep playing a section of the timeline until enough of it is in memory that it doesn't skip.

Also, pwolf is right -- as far as we could tell, Premiere Pro CS4 didn't offer any

[pwolf]

Showed this at Sacanime last month, the audience enjoyed it. One of my favorite videos of last year :P