29.97 to 24p options?

[Eric Jurgenson]

After Effects. Set up a 24P composition. In the interpret footage menu for the 29.97 clips, experiment with the fields and pulldown settings. Be sure to select Preserve Edges for smart deinterlacing. The footage is going to look jumpy because there isn’t enough motion blur on scenes shot at 29.97 to look good played back at 24 fps.

[Darren Edwards]

The lovely Andrew Kramer has designed a brilliant
any frame rate – any frame rate plugin for After Effects 7 –
and it’s free. Grooovy.

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps/index.htm

D.

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[Christopher Joseph]

Thanks for the help.

I watched the tutorial and the one thing left out is what export settings to use. Any idea on that?

Also, I have yet to experiment with bringing After Affects comps into Premeire without rendering. Would this be a good candidate for that or would it be better to render it out as an uncompressed AVI and import it into Premiere?

[Darren Edwards]

Re export: sorry to answer a question with a question,
but kind of export options are you looking for?

‘Also, I have yet to experiment with bringing After Affects comps
into Premeire without rendering. Would this be a good candidate
for that or would it be better to render it out as an uncompressed
AVI and import it into Premiere?’

After Effects imports PPro projects (to varying degrees of success)
but it doesn’t work the other way around – one reason, of course,
is because some of our AE plugins don’t work in/or with PPro, so
yeh, exporting in a ‘lossless’ format (like AVI) is the way to
go. The other trick with AE is to work on little sections at a time;
people get disappointed when their machine doesn’t RAM preview
as quickly as the tutorial video does.

D.

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[Christopher Joseph]

Re: what kind of export options are you looking for?

As in, what frame rate, field order etc. Also, once that’s done, should I create a new PP project with 24p project settings?

And one more thing, he mentioned something about using your PS3 as a “render farm?” I may not have heard that right but if so, how do you work that? I have a PS3 and that would be great if I could utilize it’s capabilities for rendering demanding AE projects.

Thanks for the help!

[Darren Edwards]

There is a Cow ‘AE frame rates’ tutorial that you might
find useful. It might answer your remaining frame rate questions.
And yes, your new PPro project should be 24FPS.

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Test_File/index.html

‘Render Farms’ on the PS3 sound exciting, don’t they? Never used one
myself. I bet everybody who’s watched that tutorial pricked up
their ears when Kramer mentioned that.

Wiki’s got some info about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_farm

Or just drop Kramer an email. Maybe he’ll even do a render farm
based podcast if enough people show interest. I’m interested.

Darren.

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