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AE to Avid madness (setting in)
Well I thought I knew how to do this but I’m flailing around like an amateur.
I’m attempting an import of stills with camera moves from AE to Avid (Xpress DV). I’m getting more moving jaggies than I can shake a hundred sticks at. Wasn’t sure if it were bad anti-aliasing, bad field order or what, so I did a series of tests on a pattern of lines and circles that I drew up.
Best results (and not bad either) were:
in AE 720 x 405 comp; interpret footage as fields off – DV NTSC aspect ratio, rendered 720 x 405
Quicktime DV codecin Avid 16:9 video, import set to non-interlaced
When I try the same settings with one of the images I want to import I get crap. Yet when I try using the Stagetools Moving Picture plugin it looks o.k. WhatamIdoinwrong with the AE – Avid ??
thanks, Craig Umanoff
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Well, its the 16:9 ratio. When I bring stills from AE to an Avid 16:9 sequence I render at 720 x 405 and circles remain circular.
How do you do it?c. umanoff
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Hi Dave,
I haven’t worked in SD for a while, part of my problem is I can’t distinguish between the expected ugliness of jaggies inherent to SD from what I might be introducing because of render and import settings. I followed your very logical advice, setup comp in AE to DV widescreen, which reads, “D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.21)”, used Avid DV codec, so 720×480, then simply linked via AMA to that output. Still looks like crap, but I’m hoping optimized crap. When I display Pixel Aspect Ratio in Avid, this is the weird part. All my clips that I imported, as opposed to linking via AMA, show 1.2 for pixel aspect ratio. One file I linked to via AMA (previously encoded from Cinematize to Avid DV widescreen) shows 1.0 for pixel aspect, but looks normal, as do the imported clips showing 1.2. Then, especially strange, the output from AE shows .889, but looks normal too in terms of not stretched, just crappy jaggies. I also see the jaggies are mainly on pan/scans of super crisp digital photography, the archival B&Ws aren’t all aliased. So, any idea why these various pixel aspect ratios? Thanks.
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