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Importing AE GFX
I’m having simple problem that’s slowly become a major problem of importing
a simple animated arrow that follows an edge of device so that it can be highlighted. The arrow is slightly rotated 11 degress so as to be slightly pointing down.
Every time I import it in to Avid Media composer and it dosen’t matter what setings are, such interlaced, non- interlaced, upper field first, lower field first, etc, etc. the edges look like there swimming. I can’t get a clean edge. Out of AE I Export using the Animation Codec
with Alfa and straight unmatted. So what do i have to do stop it from anti-alising onlong the edges? -
7 Replies
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Is it aliasing on an external monitor, or your computer monitor?
Also, what type of project are you in and what are your settings in After Effects?
Michael.
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it’s anti alising on both the monitor and and on the computer screen
the gfx moves very slow down the screen. the setting are for highrez
and it looks their. just when I import it into Avid. -
Richard,
Is this a solid arrow? or an outline of an arrow? And what color is the arrow?
There a number of factors that could cause that to happen that infomation will help figure it out.
System Specs:
Avid Xpress Pro v5.7.5
Window XP SP2
HP Workstation xw4100 Pentium 4 2.60 GHz 2 gig RAM
After Effects v7.0 -
The arrow is solid white. with no stroke, shadow. Just a simple arrow. The project is SD 720×480
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OK… Well if it helps here is the worflow from AE to Avid that I use with success:
From AE:
When I have moving elements such as text or graphics I turn the Motion Blur on for each of my moving tracksIn render settings make sure Motion Blur is set for selected tracks
In the Output module settings I use Quiktime, Animation, millions of Colors+, RGB+Alpha, Millions of Colors+, Straight
On the Avid Import I use:
Aspect=601/709, non-square
Color Levels=601/709
Field order=Even
Alpha=Invert ExistingHope that helps….
System Specs:
Avid Xpress Pro v5.7.5
Window XP SP2
HP Workstation xw4100 Pentium 4 2.60 GHz 2 gig RAM
After Effects v7.0 -
motion blur wouldn’t be nessessary the for the speed at which this arrow moves. as for export setting, the same here as you use
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Avid’s use D1-which is 720-486. Not 480, the Avid will stretch and move your AE composition to fit and those 6 pixels will mess everything up.
Go back to AE and resize your composition to 720×486, export DV settings, animation(I prefer the AvidCodec for the increased speed on importation). If color is critical you may have to throw a levels effect on an adjustment layer tweaking black and white outputs.
Switching the size to 486 should fix the problem though.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net
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