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Problem: blue line appearing in footage
Pleas can u help?
I’ve imported some footage (Pal widescreen 720×576) from FCP4 into After Effects 6 and for some reason occasionally a mysterious blue line appears right hand edge of screen, top to bottom. Does anyone know what the hell this is?!
I tried masking it out but that doesnt work, almost like it’s indestructible! Help me please, client coming to view work soon!It looks like the blue line you get when viewing footage in FCP and you’ve reached the end of the clip, even though this problem is happening all through the clip now in AE!
Also can anyone help me on exporting the comp to a quicktime that stays widescreen 16×9. It’s all set up as widescreen in AE, and looks right when i preview it. But when i render out at 720×576 and view in Quicktime player it is squashed. Do i need to stretch or something, that’ll take ages to render presumably won’t it?!
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3 Replies
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not sure about the blue line, never heard of it – is it on your source footage or is AE creating it? Does it appear in final renders? Is your default bg set to blue? How thick is the line? Can you temporarily fix the problem by putting a black solid over it for client viewing purposes?
but as per rendering it so it stays 16:9 for viewing in quicktime – just adjust your final render setting so it is 1024×576 and then quicktime will show it 16:9 (this works for combustion and i’m going to assume it’s ditto for ae)
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Thanks for your reply, i am now happily exporting at 1024×576 to provide my client with a widescreen quicktime file. Thank you!
The blue line is about 20 pixels wide, on the right hand edge of the screen, running top to bottom.
BUT… i think i worked out what’s causing it. I can’t mask it at all and i couldnt work out why not… then i tried turning off the Magic Bullet deinterlacing effect and it disappeared entirely!
So it seems that deinterlacing the footage caused it. Anyone else having similar problems be warned. Any suggestions how to fix this?
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No problems 🙂 Unfortunately i don’t use MB so can’t help you on that one… good luck 🙂
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