Adobe Connect Session – Encoding to multiple formats

Here’s the link to my latest Connect Session – Using CS4 to encode to multiple formats such as H.264, FLASH and BluRay
http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p61913948/
Cheers

Adobe Connect Session – Using CS4 with FCP and AVID

Here’s the link to my latest Connect Session (it ends a little abruptly at the end, slight technical snafu)

http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p57802139/

Cheers

Adobe Connect e-Seminar – Using CS4 with Final Cut Pro and Media Composer

Its been a while but I have another Adobe e-Seminar coming up this Friday, this one is on using Adobe Creative Suite 4 with Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer

FEATURING FCP & AVID
- Importing Final Cut Pro Projects into Adobe Premiere, using Dynamic Link with AE for finishing.
- Importing AVID Projects into Adobe Premiere, using Dynamic Link with AE for finishing.

As always, these Connect Sessions are free, and are on a 12:00pm Friday (Australian Time), to register just go to

http://www.adobeeseminars.com.au/events/register/18147260

Hope to see you there.

How to edit Nikon D300s Videos in Realtime in Premiere Pro CS4

OK, so I have had a few questions from people about how I was able to edit the files straight out of a Nikon D300s in realtime without any conversion. When I first got the D300s I just tried popping the files into my Premiere Pro 4.1 timeline to see what would happen, and lo and behold it worked. As it turns out the story is not that simple, after a bit more testing it seems that a stock install of Premiere Pro 4.1 on Mac or PC wont play the files natively. If however you have a BlackMagic product such as an Intensity or in my case a MultiBridge Pro however, the situation changes.

You see one of the features of the BlackMagic line is you can capture and edit SD and HD video using the MJPEG CODEC, which it appears is quite capable of reading the MJPEG files from the Nikon D300s. This also means you get realtime monitoring of your lovely 720p 24 fps footage out through HDMI or Component to a LCD or Plasma. But what if you don’t have a MultiBridge or Intensity? Well you could go out and buy one, and to be honest considering the cost of an Intensity Pro why wouldn’t you. But, if you spent all your money on Redrock attachments like me there is a solution.

Simply go to the Blackmagic Website and download the drivers for one of their products, I would suggest the MultiBridge drivers (simply because they were the ones I tried first for this little test). And run the installer, answer yes to everything and reboot. Now you don’t have the hardware so you wont get any of the RT or monitoring but what you will get on the PC is a new series of presets (we will get to the Mac situation in a moment) under the BlackMagic Design Folder, choose HD 720, VariCam Motion JPEG, 24p. This will give you a sequence that is at the right frame rate and frame size and smooth playback and rendering of your Nikon footage.

Now under the Mac the situation is a little different, as there are still no CS4 drivers for the Decklink range of products, this wont work. However, if you wait just a little longer, there is the possibility that maybe, just maybe, some goodness might come your way

Adobe E Seminar – Cutting a TVC

Here is the link to the latest Connect E Seminar – Cutting a TVC, please to enjoy

http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p29794217/

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Cheers

Evan

Adobe @ SMPTE

So next week at SMPTE Adobe is going to have a huge presence. Visit us on stand C11 Hall 2 where we will be showing off all sorts of Adobe technologies including live FLASH streaming, FLASH in the digital home. Additionally round the clock classroom sessions covering pretty much all of Production Premium CS4. By all means come on up and hassle me, I’ll be there each and every day. Additionally on Tuesday and Thursday at 12pm I will be speaking at the Adimex stand on Premiere Pro Workflows. Hope to see you there!

Adobe E-Seminar – Working with Stills in Video, Photoshop Extended and Premiere

Here is the link to the latest Connect Session, working with stills and Photoshop Extended in video with Premiere

http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p24441425/

Jon Barrie’s First Connect Session

Here is the link for Jons first Connect on using FCP with Adobe Premiere CS4

http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p90347549/