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Animation/Prores mix outputting to Flash
Hello
I am editing a film on a prores timeline (PAL 720×576 16:9). It is going to end up as an FLV online, probably 640×360.
The filming was done on a mixture of Digibeta and DVCam, converted to ProRes then imported. Crucially there are also some animated sections to import and insert, some of which dissolve into the footage.
I have asked the animators to provide files in Animation codec which they have in 1024×576 around 11MB/s.
I am having problems with the animated section. They don’t sit well on the timeline looking blurred when rendered. (maybe they should have sent them to me 720×576?) That carries through to the FLV of course. If I compress them into FLV on their own they look fine.
However ultimately they will be part of the whole online. How can I mix these two elements together and maintain the progressive integrity of the animations? Any thoughts much appreciated.
AdrianAdrian Lort-Phillips
Radiant Media
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UPDATE
Taking the mountain to.. the man, I tried exporting my film footage into animation codec and then added them and the animated sequences onto a new animation codec timeline. Big files obviously but a much better result when compressed into flash. Is this the only way forward?
Adrian Lort-Phillips
Radiant Media
http://www.radiantmedia.co.uk -
And why don’t you get your animation in Prores444 and put everything in a 1024×576 sequence.
Make the sequence Progressiove and de-interlace the footage.
Set as well “Render all YUV in High Precision”.
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Hi Rafael
[Rafael Amador] “And why don’t you get your animation in Prores444 and put everything in a 1024×576 sequence.
Make the sequence Progressiove and de-interlace the footage.
Set as well “Render all YUV in High Precision”.”Just to be clear:
Get the animator to export in ProRes444
Put everything in a 1024×576 sequence – so, a prores444 sequence mixing that animated prores444 and the standard prores together?
Make the sequence progressive – how? by setting fields to ‘none’?Many thanks
Adrian
Adrian Lort-Phillips
Radiant Media
http://www.radiantmedia.co.uk -
[Adrian Lort-Phillips] “Get the animator to export in ProRes444”
Yes. Better than Animation which i guess you are using because the Alpha Channel.[Adrian Lort-Phillips] “Put everything in a 1024×576 sequence – so, a prores444 sequence mixing that animated prores444 and the standard prores together?
Make the sequence progressive – how? by setting fields to ‘none’?”
You are going to the web so in the end you have to convert everything to Squared Pixels and Progressive.
Start with a sequence like that: 1024×576/SQ Pixels/ Field Order NONE.
You only need to deinterlace the video footage before exporting.If you edit in Pal and add your 1024×576 graphics, those will be converted to Pal (720×576 Interlaced) in the time-line and you will need to re-convert again to SQ pixels for the web.
Things like dissolves, wipes, or any kind of animations that is rendered as Interlaced will look worst after de-interlacing.
Render everything as Progressive.
rafael -
Thank you Rafael,
That is very helpful.
Adrian
Adrian Lort-Phillips
Radiant Media
http://www.radiantmedia.co.uk
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