Wow, thanks Steve and Douglas (and I know who is who, there was just slight confusion from near-simultaneous posting). Steve, I know what you mean about not reusing complete effects. But one would (once you get it down) re- DO spline primitive effects, or play again with color media crops. Thanks, those are completely new concepts for me ... being the

Thanks Steve! For the line , what sort of color media? And what's a spline primitive? I'll poke around with those tips, see what I can do. Do you have any fave tricks of those sorts? thanks, Chuck

Douglas, My, that's quite a Zen answer. ;^) All journeys begin with one step? I still wouldn't mind a tip (or 3) on where to take that first step... Anybody? thanks! Chuck

Good thread. I was going to start a new one, but think I'll ask this here. When you go to Avid.com and the Welcome to Avid video plays, how do you: * make a white line fly in from the side, like under "storytellers " ? * blur the titles as they fly in, like "most watched" "most loved" Is that Avid FX? BCC? * And how

Thanks! Cheers!

I have already converted most of the clips in Sorenson, from mpeg to Avid 1:1 QT. (that's a whole 'nother 3 page thread last week... where were you??? Lol!!!) These last few clips would not import into Avid after conversion because they were longer. But I redid them in Apple Motion JPEG B, and they don't look noticeably different. Trust

Haze, thanks for the Turbo info. i want to make sure you're not confusing 2 questions I have here. The first: delivery final product of QT or H264. This will be a 2 minute finished piece. Will that be an unmanageable file size for uncompressed QT? (2 minutes). The second question I asked (above your last reply) was about getting 7 minute mpeg clips

Thanks Haze! Tomas, you are so very right! New question though... When converting the source clips from mpeg > 1:1 QT > MC, some of the source clips are 7 or 8 minutes long, but I guess because of the file size, I only get 3.5 minutes. The limit is what, 4GB? Can I change the file size limit, or should I convert at a lower res than 1:1? Again

Thanks for the quick reply Haze! Not much I could do about the source material... Would you recommend uncompressed QT or animation codec for best quality? Or, when I contact their tech person, if he requests uncompressed QT, just give them what they ask for? Thanks!

Hi all, I'm baaaaaaack... My client (not video savvy) originally requested "an uncompressed QT." Now they've requested "an uncompressed H264". If H264 is a compression codec, there can't be such a thing as uncompressed H264, right? What will provide best quality? (the source is SD mpegs Squeezed to 1:1 QTs imported into