Pixels

[Jerry Hofmann]

Elaborte on what “DV scenes in Animation” means…

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[Wally]

They were scenes were captured on a Panasonic DV camera 3CCD PV-GS250 and exported in QT Animation. Some scenes were on an unmasked blue screen, some were background to a mask and two were just virgin shots with nothing added. All had pixels residue due to action of the scene.

Jerry, I appreciate your help,

Wally

[Neil Ryan]

Yes, your information is sketchy, but it sounds like it could be a fields issue; more specifically, a field order issue.
You may want to add the ‘Shift Fields’ filter to your clip and see if that resolves or at least positively alters your issue.

Neil

[Wally]

The work was done in After Effects (blue screen/dvGarage), Animation codec. The virgin scenes were ripped from a DVD using DVDxDVPro which had been in DVDVC Pro originally and then in Animation after the rip. What else would be informative?

Thanks,

Wally

[Wally]

I tried your suggestion with the ‘Shift Fields’ and nothing happened. I did try the Sharpen filter and interestingly 7 the most made it worse.

[Russell Lasson]

[Wally] “The virgin scenes were ripped from a DVD using DVDxDVPro which had been in DVDVC Pro originally and then in Animation after the rip.”

It really sounds like you should try to get back to the original media instead of going from DVCPRO to MPEG2 to Animation.

I’m still confused on the total workflow that you’ve followed. Could you please clarify?

-Russ

[Wally]

The work flow was basically this:
The media was captured into FCP, exported in some cases (those filmed on a blue screen) into After Effects for masking. Each time Animation was used. The finished media was re-imported into FCP for editing and finally exported in DVDVC-Pro for burning to a DVD. I hope that I understood correctly by work flow. As you certainly have guessed, I am just a bit better than a novice.

Thanks for your help,
Wally

[Wally]

Russell,

The original footage is unavailable at this point. I did go to the browser, put the footage back into the Viewer and it was perfect. However, when I edited it and placed it into the time line, the pixels showed up again in the Canvas. Obviously the problem has been found but now how do I solve it?

Thank you for your anticipated help,

Wally

[Neil Ryan]

You have to keep track of your fields throughout the process.
In AE, you have to interpret the source material correctly, then you must render your output in the appropriate field order.
Check this process at each step.

Maybe let us know that you’ve done/not done this aspect correctly.

cheers,
Neil.

[Carl Whitney]

Hi Wally,

I am in a bit of a fix. I purchased the dvdxdvPro back in March and it worked great! Now it is asking for a License String which I cannot locate on my computer. Do you have the website of the dvdxdvpro company? It seems to have disappeared where I am looking.

Thanks

Carl