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  Render bender (long post)

  Posted by Michael Colin on August 4, 2006 at 5:09 pm

  Greetings, Cutters. A couple of questions, related to each other.

  1) Is it possible to send out a reference movie to compress for DVD without bright green preview material rendering? Why would I want to do this? Because….

  2) I’m working with a 10-bit sequence sent as a clip from an AVID on PC. They used the AJA V210 codec to render out the clip (We use the IO with our system). The clip plays fine with everything BUT the lower thirds rendered into it. The graphic fill for the lower thirds were created in After Effects, and play FINE in real-time preview (bright green). But when I render them into the timeline there is a slight stutter at the start and stop of the graphic fill. And it is maddeningly inconsistent. Sometimes it only does it at the start, sometimes it only does it at the end, sometimes it doesn’t do it at all.

  We’ve tried many, many flavors and permutations of the After Effects graphics fill—Animation, 10-bit, field rendering, masks, etc. One question: we’re using 16-bit project in After Effects. Anyone think going to 8-bit might help here?

  Anyway, we need to make a bunch of DVDs while trying to solve this technical problem, but when I send a reference movie out to use in Compressor, the green preview material renders. So that ain’t working.

  Momma told me there’d be days like this….

  Any thoughts and ideas greatly appreciated.

  Best,

  Michael Colin

  Andrew Schuurmann replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  August 4, 2006 at 5:52 pm

  You can certainly create a reference movie that you could use to encode to MPEG2 for a DVD, but, there is no free lunch, if the material on the timeline needs to render, that rendering is still going to happen, it’ll just become part of BG processes when Compressor does its encoding. My guess is the encode would take a very long time.

  DRW
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  Andrew Schuurmann

  August 4, 2006 at 6:01 pm

  If the sequence isn’t too long you could dump it out to tape without rendering (don’t use Print to Tape or Edit to Tape — just hit play in the seq and record on the deck) and then recapture.

  Have you tried putting the clip in After Effects and rendering it out that way? I’ve always liked AE’s render engine better than FCP’s.

  Andrew

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