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Tile/Action safe zone
Hello. I am an AE novice and have recently finished a 3 minute movie after doing many tutorials etc. After exporting my movie to review, I realized I had not learned an apparently important lesson: The Tile/Action safe zone.
As a result, I am now missing about 20% of my intended image. The movie is comprised of 6 comps with around 15 source files each with many parent/child relationships. When I tried to scale an entire comp’s worth of images, they no longer wereregistered properly together.Does anyone know of a way to quickly and simply re-sizing the entire film? Or must I laboriously open each element and re-size – effectively revising the entire document? (ugh!)
Thanks in advance.
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My suggestion would be to create a new composition and place the composition you need scaled down in it (drag it onto the new comp button in the project panel to do this easily). Then enable ‘collapse transformations’ on the nested composition and scale it down by about 90%.
Enabling ‘collapse transformations’ on the layer should allow areas outside of the pre-composed composition to be visible in the new composition.
This may not work in all cases, but it should work more often than not.
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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Thanks very much for your advice. I got it to work! And no, I will not soon forget the title safe zone again.
New question:
The array of export options is baffling. If I wanted to create a format to burn to be viewed on a DVD player, what is my best option for the highest resolution? The project is set at 640 x 480. I have tried the Quicktime option because I am somewhat familiar with it. I set it to Multi pass, best quality with an H.264 compression and an automatic data rate. And believe me, that is more than I currently understand.Thanks again for your help.
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Hi Andy,
I usually render out using the QT animation option and then let Encore do the compression for me. It’s going to transcode any quicktime you give it anyway, so you might as well give it a lossless one. I’m note sure about other dvd programmes.
Simon
ps, you say ‘export’, but you are using the render queue, right? Not the export command in the file menu?
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Export? Export?!
No…I would NEVER expo…….oh, OK. Yeah, I did use the export command…
But you have shown me the errors of my ways. I went back and looked up the use of the render que. For my troubles, I DID get a QT movie that was about 10 ten times bigger than the one I got from exporting, BUT…..I did not notice an appreciable difference in the quality.
Furthermore, I am vexed by the way Illustrator files have an obnoxious wavy quality about them when panning across them. Any fixes for this?
Thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it.
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Yeah, the default QT (animation 100%) is massive, but you can delete it once Encore (or whatever programme you’re using) has transcoded. You don’t even have to wait until the disc / folder has been built, if you want to transcode earlier on. If you want to, you can set the compression of the QT by clicking on the Output Module link in the render queue.
As for AI files, try checking the Continuously Rasterize box for the layer (it can be found in the Layer Switches panel in the timeline, it looks like a little sun). That might do it.
Simon Bonner
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Hey again Simon.I really appreciate your taking some time.
1) Didn’t realize I needed another program to transcode
2) Didn’t know I HAD to transcode
3) I will be looking up the word: transcode
4) I’ve seen the compression pull down menus, but have no idea what they mean
5) Will look up: compression, too I guess.As far as the more pressing issue for me (wavy-lined AI files):
1) I already had the continuous raster button on (from tutorial)
2) I’m wondering if there is a blur filter or other such smoothing device for just such emergencies (presentation for Wed 2.13) (or is that 13.2 on your side of the pond?)Thanks again.
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