Noooooooo........ forget the user manual - it's not an easy read at the best of times and should be treated as a reference manual at best. It's not a good tutorial. I suggest seeing some online video tutorials. they will have you up and running (for what you need) in a matter of a couple of hours.
Is cut and paste possible without re-encoding?
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Noooooooo........ forget the user manual - it's not an easy read at the best of times and should be treated as a reference manual at best. It's not a good tutorial. I suggest seeing some online video tutorials. they will have you up and running (for what you need) in a matter of a couple of hours.
Dad? When did you get here?
LOL seriously, I didn't think anybody read the manuals anymore - especially not like that...
So you haven't actually tried doing any of this yet? Try playing with some of these toys and then get back to us - you are not seeing the forest for the trees, you are overthinking things, you are pixel-peeping before you even have pixels, and you are generally driving everybody here bonkers.
Get in there, get your hands dirty, then come back with the completely different questions that will arise.
And therein lies a big problem with today's software!
A) It's got a lot more complicated than it used to be
B) The manuals are written more like help files to reference when you can't figure out how to use a particular feature.
There are no tutorials in manuals any more. No walk throughs. They assume you know what you are asking about, but they haven't yet told you what's there. They tell you 'how' but not 'why'.
Seriously, get some online video tutorial (even go to YouTube and watch the free stuff!)..... it's going to give you a better base to start from than the manual ever will.
From Rahmy
You could have mentioned the presentation part from the beginning, you need a presentation software like "microsoft powerpoint" or "apple keynote". and you could have made the platform clear from the start, you want a mac solution.
The presentation is just a minor point, an added complication, which I can probably simulate anyway with the Oppo/BenQ by generating a video of stills and clips, and pausing at the right places. For example, a still might be on, which I've set to show for 5 seconds, but after 2-3 seconds I pause it. Then when I'm ready for the next segment, I press Pause again. Two or three seconds later the still might crossfade to a movie clip. If I want to talk about the movie clip after it has finished, I'd like it to remain static on the last frame, and not continue on to the following still or clip. But how to stop the progression? I suppose I could copy the last frame of the movie clip, turn it into a still, and have it stay on the screen for five seconds. I'd have to remember to pause before the five seconds was up otherwise it would continue to the next segment.
Now, instead of having to remember to pause before the end of segments, I was hoping I could use Premiere to set things up for me. I thought maybe Premiere, in conjunction with other software, could export to Blu-ray format and include fancy break points, like chapters in a DVD but more sophisticated. i.e. press Play and the video plays to the first break point and freezes-frame. Then when you press Play, or other suitable button, the Blu-ray cross fades to the next chapter. I don't know much about Blu-ray but I do know that it has extremely powerful functions, and I was hoping someone would say:
You need to use Premiere and After Effects to set up a Blu-ray with X-factor Breakpoints (with auto freeze-frame) and Z-syndrome cross-fades. Then all you need to do is press the Forward button to jump to the next X-factor Breakpoint.
I'm happy to get into Blu-ray programming if that's what it takes.
Regarding the use of a computer, I have even more reservations about that than I do about re-encoding. They crash, the don't handshake properly, and after reading a lengthy thread about the problems of Macs driving HD displays, I haven't bothered to try it. Just another time-wasting exercise, I thought. I bought the proper cable (mini Display port to HDMI), but it's yet to be tested on the projector. And as for PowerPoint, or the Mac equivalent, Keynote – they're a possibility, fairly remote though. I just don't think the whole caboodle of a Mac running Keynote connected to projector would be reliable enough. I really want devices dedicated to what they do.
Basically, I want my movie evenings to appear technologically free. I stand out front and start talking while pressing a remote to change segments. I press Pause at the end of my intro, go to my seat, press Pause again and the before-interval series of videos starts up. I want to avoid computers and multiple software and cursors on Desktops and glitches and all the carry-on that always happens when a computer is involved. I want just me, one remote, a Blu-ray player connected to a USB drive that has two files called Before Interval and After Interval, and the projector. Before anyone arrives, Before Interval is started up, played for a few seconds, rewound to the start, and paused. Another press of Pause starts the evening. Simple and reliable – but is it possible? I reckon it is with the right equipment, suitable software, and a lot of work.
Oh, and all connections are HDMI.
You could have mentioned the presentation part from the beginning, you need a presentation software like "microsoft powerpoint" or "apple keynote". and you could have made the platform clear from the start, you want a mac solution.
The presentation is just a minor point, an added complication, which I can probably simulate anyway with the Oppo/BenQ by generating a video of stills and clips, and pausing at the right places. For example, a still might be on, which I've set to show for 5 seconds, but after 2-3 seconds I pause it. Then when I'm ready for the next segment, I press Pause again. Two or three seconds later the still might crossfade to a movie clip. If I want to talk about the movie clip after it has finished, I'd like it to remain static on the last frame, and not continue on to the following still or clip. But how to stop the progression? I suppose I could copy the last frame of the movie clip, turn it into a still, and have it stay on the screen for five seconds. I'd have to remember to pause before the five seconds was up otherwise it would continue to the next segment.
Now, instead of having to remember to pause before the end of segments, I was hoping I could use Premiere to set things up for me. I thought maybe Premiere, in conjunction with other software, could export to Blu-ray format and include fancy break points, like chapters in a DVD but more sophisticated. i.e. press Play and the video plays to the first break point and freezes-frame. Then when you press Play, or other suitable button, the Blu-ray cross fades to the next chapter. I don't know much about Blu-ray but I do know that it has extremely powerful functions, and I was hoping someone would say:
You need to use Premiere and After Effects to set up a Blu-ray with X-factor Breakpoints (with auto freeze-frame) and Z-syndrome cross-fades. Then all you need to do is press the Forward button to jump to the next X-factor Breakpoint.
I'm happy to get into Blu-ray programming if that's what it takes.
Regarding the use of a computer, I have even more reservations about that than I do about re-encoding. They crash, the don't handshake properly, and after reading a lengthy thread about the problems of Macs driving HD displays, I haven't bothered to try it. Just another time-wasting exercise, I thought. I bought the proper cable (mini Display port to HDMI), but it's yet to be tested on the projector. And as for PowerPoint, or the Mac equivalent, Keynote – they're a possibility, fairly remote though. I just don't think the whole caboodle of a Mac running Keynote connected to projector would be reliable enough. I really want devices dedicated to what they do.
Basically, I want my movie evenings to appear technologically free. I stand out front and start talking while pressing a remote to change segments. I press Pause at the end of my intro, go to my seat, press Pause again and the before-interval series of videos starts up. I want to avoid computers and multiple software and cursors on Desktops and glitches and all the carry-on that always happens when a computer is involved. I want just me, one remote, a Blu-ray player connected to a USB drive that has two files called Before Interval and After Interval, and the projector. Before anyone arrives, Before Interval is started up, played for a few seconds, rewound to the start, and paused. Another press of Pause starts the evening. Simple and reliable – but is it possible? I reckon it is with the right equipment, suitable software, and a lot of work.
Oh, and all connections are HDMI.
Hi son! You're missing out, Boy, on the joys of reading manuals. Climb into a hot bath, soap suds high, with the Photoshop manual. Nothing like it for learning all the neat tricks that Photoshop can do. So what if you never intend to use it. You've seen Star Wars, haven't you, and you don't intend to become a space fighter, do you? Try the InDesign manual – if you're man enough. It's even better than the Photoshop one. It treats Photoshop like a plug in. And don't forget pen and paper. You'll need to make notes on the many interesting tid-bits that might come in useful. I must say, though, that the Final Cut manual from a few years ago was a battle. Well, more than one manual, but I waded through most of them. Not in detail, and I didn't take notes. Just hopped in to see what these video programs can do.
I'm really looking forward to the Premiere manual. Many happy bath hours there.
Give it a go, Boy. Give it a go!
And I'm not a complete newbie to video. I've cut, pasted, edited and exported from Quicktime Pro, but it's time to move on.
P.S. When my question about seamless concatenation is fully answered, then I can move on to other questions. Until then, get into that bath, with suitable manuals of course, and come up with some solutions for me. Son!
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Shooter
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You have been given solutions but none what you want to hear.
I agree with another poster...come back once you have had (a long sudsy bath" with all the manuals ...and got some hands on time with all the packages you have bought).
:bath:
The CS6 Suite shouldnt take you more than 3 years to master working with it full time if you ignore After Effects.
I agree with another poster...come back once you have had (a long sudsy bath" with all the manuals ...and got some hands on time with all the packages you have bought).
:bath:
The CS6 Suite shouldnt take you more than 3 years to master working with it full time if you ignore After Effects.
Guy, why are you bothering to ask at all if you're convinced there's something everyone's not telling you? And why would we leave anything out if it gets you where you want to be?
No matter how many times you ask the same question, the answers aren't going to change. There's a certain reality involved.
You simply cannot do everything you want to do, the way you want to do it, with what you have.