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[thebeorn]

Hey I love this program so far.  A little buggy so I save after pretty much every major operation.  My question is if your creaeing a video from a bunch of peices how do you run the auto color algorithm on all of them.  I have a movie with say 30 scenes and to do them one at a time going into the future will be very time consumming and inmcredibly boring.

[grandpabruce]

Hey I love this program so far.  A little buggy so I save after pretty much every major operation.  My question is if your creaeing a video from a bunch of peices how do you run the auto color algorithm on all of them.  I have a movie with say 30 scenes and to do them one at a time going into the future will be very time consumming and inmcredibly boring.

    

What color algorithm are you talking about?  What does "a little buggy" mean?

Edited by grandpabruce, 07 October 2009 - 04:05 PM.

[thebeorn]

    

What color algorithm are you talking about?  What does "a little buggy" mean?

Sorry about that; in the video editor you can run an auto color algorithm that does a nice job of cleaning up the video color issues.  Unfortunatly you have to run it on each section of the movie seperatEly and my movie has about 30-40 =~ 1 MIN. pieces in it.  

by buggy I mean that  I get a non reproducible crash about every 1/2 hr .  If anything I would say its tied in some way to the video trimming editor as this seems to be sort of reproducible in that it happens more often when doing video trimming.

Another question if I might.  So im making a DVD with my DVD made up of three movies in chapters and 1 slide show as a chapter.  After createng the MyDvd layout with this data I see I need to make this or that change.  So I go to video wave and mod the video chapter but when I go back to the my DVD production which uses that chapter  the new edited changes are not seen.  I have to delete the chapter and readd it in order to see the changes.  Is this correct?? Is my dvd making its own copy and then saving and useing this instead just a link to the movie chapter??


Thanks alot this is  a lot of fun to work with.  For the price ists great and nakes me want to go out and get a faster comptuer so I can see the video in production without the stuttering.

[Jim_Hardin]

I guess you are talking about “Auto-color”???

No, it only works on one clip at a time. (more on that later)

I am not thrilled about how Roxio handles edits once you have reached the MyDVD stage! I have found a left-handed approach, outlined Here.

You are misusing the term “Chapter”. Those buttons in MyDVD are Movies whereas Chapters are parts within a Movie.

Chapters can have buttons of their own but that is normally on a separate Chapter Menu Page.

Back to your Auto-color…  First carry though and burn a test DVD, good use for RW media. Often ‘computer color’ and TV color will be completely different. So make sure you really need the tweak before blindly applying it.

Assuming you do need to tweak, you could add several of those clips together in VW and Export As. Then bring that new, one piece file, back into VW and use Auto-color… Obviously it would have to suit your production to do it that way. Also if you have one very dark portion and rest are very light, your not going to get good results since it averages.

There are lots of different ways to get things done, pop in anytime to juggle ideas with all of us - just watch your feet, we often drop the ball  

[thebeorn]

I guess you are talking about “Auto-color”???

No, it only works on one clip at a time. (more on that later)

I am not thrilled about how Roxio handles edits once you have reached the MyDVD stage! I have found a left-handed approach, outlined Here.

You are misusing the term “Chapter”. Those buttons in MyDVD are Movies whereas Chapters are parts within a Movie.

Chapters can have buttons of their own but that is normally on a separate Chapter Menu Page.

Back to your Auto-color…  First carry though and burn a test DVD, good use for RW media. Often ‘computer color’ and TV color will be completely different. So make sure you really need the tweak before blindly applying it.

Assuming you do need to tweak, you could add several of those clips together in VW and Export As. Then bring that new, one piece file, back into VW and use Auto-color… Obviously it would have to suit your production to do it that way. Also if you have one very dark portion and rest are very light, your not going to get good results since it averages.

There are lots of different ways to get things done, pop in anytime to juggle ideas with all of us - just watch your feet, we often drop the ball  

too bad but I see the point if your doing things correctly you take the time to look at each clip.  np probs Ill just make one clip of it and then run this auto color  thanks again

[Jim_Hardin]

too bad but I see the point if your doing things correctly you take the time to look at each clip.  np probs Ill just make one clip of it and then run this auto color  thanks again

I have a clip where we are outside a cave, go through the cave and come out the other end.

If I apply Auto Color to the entire clip it will be a disaster!!! You have to split a clip up and operate in individual segments.

If your scenes within a clip are not that extreme then you could apply a correction to the entire movie.

I have worked on some 2 1/2 minute clips that were so radical I applied one or 2 blanket corrections then split them into 16 different scenes and applied corrections to fit each scene. I don't use Auto either...

You seem be looking for some magic software to take your place in the editing loop.   Not going to happen