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cartoonification tutorial
hey!
I went through the cartoonification tutorial and got some wicked awesome results, but would you treat 16×9 images diffrently in after effects when i export them as an image sequence and when i take them into Illustrator to maintain the 16×9 aspect ratio? because right now when i follow the tutorial, and export the final cartoonificated video from after effects it letterboxes it, and i want just straight 16×9 images to take back into avid.any insight on this?
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you mean it puts the 2 black bars at top and bottum
2 ways to solve, and it depends on when it’s happening, does it happen once it’s rendered out (as in fin in a.e. but you check your “movie” afterwords and it’s letterboxed) or is it letterboxed once brought into a.e.
if it happens in ae, mask off the letterboxes and youll have nothingness,
if it’s in your render, check your comp settings and your final rendersettings to make sure your 16×9
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well i’m just exporting it as an uncompressed avi and in the avi settings box, there is no mention of what aspect ratio it exports as. the composition settings are set to ntsc dv wisescreen as well. could it be because my timeline is a 23.976 timeline? i dont see how that would affect it but maybe….?
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If you;re cartoon footage is sized correctly (all the steps in Part 2) and you have corrected the issues with Pixel Aspect ratio (PAR) after bringing it into AE (Part 3) – this should not be happening.
When you bring it into AE and correct for the Pixel ASpect Ratio in the interpert footage dialog, what PAR is it set to? Make sure it’s set to the correct PAR. It won’t automatically do this – since Illustrator exports everything in this process as Square pixels.
Once you’ve re-interpreted the footage properly, make sure that the composition you place it in has the correct PAR and dimensions. If it doesn’t, fixt it.
Better yet, create the composition from the footage by dropping the footage right ontop of the create new Comp button as I do. Now, becasue of that issue I mention in part 2 where there is a pixel at each end missing) There may be a slight disparity between the footage size and the format you’re targeting – sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t – so you could end up with something 720×480 or 721×481. Make sure that the composition setting are checked and fixed once you get it all set up. If for COmp settings you see the word custom byt the preset – you know something is off.
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Dear Aharon;
great tutorial, with one exception, which you may be able to solve for me, when rendered in illustrator, the default setting is portrait, which clips the edges of the video, resulting in the post box effect that has been previously reported. the frames as created (jpegs) are in the vertical setting, so when they reach illustrator, they are imported in the vertical orientation, so the artboard dimension cuts them off. I can’t figure out either how to change the orientation of the frames, as a whole by batch processing, or get illustrator to create a larger workspace (like tabloid) so no clipping occurs. If you change each frame’l illustrator file so the orientation is in landscape, no clipping occurs, and the movie is fine. 750 frames to change is a real pain in the butt.any suggestions???????
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