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This is NUTS
Simple comp 30 FPS
Black solid layer
White text layer on topThe word “TEST” moves from top to bottom over 2 sec, scale enlarges and transparency fades.
Render to quicktime animation
burn using encoreWHY IS THE FINAL OUTPUT not solid. it is glitchy (the text)
Windows 64 (also did a test on 32)
4 gigs of ram
AMD 6000 DUAL COREReggie Spires
Magic City Group
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What’s really nuts is that you expect us to help out without a clue of the problem.
Describe ‘glitchy’.
There’s all sorts of things that could have gone wrong. Fields mismatch, framerate mismatch.
Bar3nd
Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects
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Within the white part of each letter there are lines, wavey lines giving the look that the font is not solid… specifically as it moves across the screen.
I set up the comp with simple defaults for NTSC DV
Font is century schoolbook
Please understand I am not intentionally holding information to make it difficult to help me…
Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
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Just out of curiosity, before beginning to work with AE did you read any tutorial manuals, such as the excellent Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Chris and Trish Meyer – or did you sort of just jump in, figuring “how hard can it be?”
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Thanks Dave
Always appreciate your help .. and others.. but you seem to be consistant without to insulting concerning the elementary nature of the problem.
I have been working with AE for over a year but I don’t know that I have ever had this situation. Or I just ignored it.
Could you explain the first line a little more.. should my text NOT be 100% white. Also what are the excess video levels. You are welcome to point me to a source for me to learn and read rather than take your time.
As for your recomendation Joey I will look at that tutorial.. Thanks for all the help.
Reggie Spires
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Just to check, when you say 30 f.p.s., you do mean 29.97, right?
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Correct.. can you point me to that tutorial you mentioned?
Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
Magic City Productions
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Sorry, it’s not one tutorial, it’s a book.
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Try setting your text to 95% or 90% opacity. It’ll still look white and may not exhibit what I suspect is chroma crawl artefacts.
Cheers
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[Reggie Spires] “should my text NOT be 100% white. Also what are the excess video levels.”
rgb has a greater range of values than television can display. if you look at 8bpc rgb it has a each color has a range between 0-255, if you converted tv’s range to rgb it would be 16-235.
to correct for this, add an adjustment layer over the top of your text (and any other layers). add levels to the adjustment layer. set the output black value to 16 and the and output white to 235 (you can also use the preset ‘levels – computer to video’). see if that corrects the problem.
many nle’s will convert a file at import, so often you won’t need to set the adjustment level, just make sure the import setting are set to correctly scale the color space from rgb to yuv (sometimes called 601).
now this would most likely only help if you are seeing a problem on a broadcast monitor or tv. if you are seeing this on a computer display, there may be another problem. there was a post the other day describing some of what you have mentioned….
Kevin Camp
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No difference with the adjustment Layer
Does it matter if you are scaling the text using the layer scale vs the text animators?
Reggie Spires
Magic City Group
Magic City Productions
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