Today The GoPro Let Me Down

Regular readers of my mind-spillings might remember the Color-Correction Conundrum of a year ago, where I used the decidedly outdoor-color-balanced GoPro Hero HD as an accent camera for a choral concert in a church.  The lemon-yellow footage of the piano keyboard was brought to heel by help from the…

Output module constraints in After Effects CS5

In After Effects CS4, you may have seen errors like this when rendering and exporting:

After Effects AEGP Plugin Media IO Plugin
There is a mismatch between Output Module settings. Please verify your settings and try again. Property Data Invalid!
Medial02 error: 0x400e0004
Frame dimensions out of bounds.

This type of “mismatch” error message indicates that you have a setting in the format-specific…

The changing landscape of CS5 for Broadcast (part 2)

As I spoke previously, the landscape of broadcast has been changing. That perfect storm of change is forcing broadcasters to think differently about the how’s and why’s to get media out. 

As a recap, here are several of the issues facing media outlets today:
* Moved from…

Adobe CS5 Production Premium and HP hardware is the fast line - always!

During the recent National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to present Adobe Creative Suite 5 in the HP booth. I was very excited to get my hands on a fully loaded HP Z800 Workstation and test just how fast Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 would run; seeing as we are now able to take advantage of 64-bit memory. The Z800 was running Windows 7 64-bit, topped with 24GB DDR3-1333 RAM, a gorgeous 10-bit…