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Quality issues with logo overlay
I have created a circular logo which I want to overlay on a video. The logo is required to spin every so often which I have achieved in after effects. I have then rendered the footage to AVI (best settings, lossless) and proceeded to overlay footage in Premiere.
The issue that I am having is that the edges of the circle and general quality is a bit rubbish. Looks like quite a low resolution. Anybody got any ideas as to how to increase the quality? The cirle does have red border if that makes any difference.
Regards
Alex
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Is there any reason you didnt import the footage into afx and overlay it all together. Also, is the logo a shape layer or raster image. I am guessing the edges are a bit blocky in Premiere.
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Hi Mike, thanks for replying. I think the issue is actually more to do with the red colour. After searching these forums I see that red is quite an awkward colour so I have reduced the R value which seems a lot better.
I am not sure of the best workflow with regards to AE and Premiere. Do you think that I should cut my final footage in Premiere and then load into AE for the logo overlay/transition?
Regards
Alex
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Yes, that is exactly what I think. AFX seems to be much better at fine tuning your video footage. I generally import my footage using premiere, trim it down – much easier with Premiere, then export using Quicktime with animation codec. Import into AFX and do all your post work. That is how I like to work anyway. Depending on the version, you can also use the dynamic link to import premiere sequences into afx as a comp with a series of video on different layers so you can tweak them individually. Pretty handy.
Hope this helps
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Your best bet is to use black as your BG, even if giving it an alpha channel. And you should be rendering your animation straight – not premultiplied. See this video:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/straight_vs_premult.php
But even so, if you rendered premultiplied (and clearly from your description, you did) try using effect > Channel > Remove color matting and setting the color to the EXACT color you used as a BG (in your case, the red you’re using). That may remove much or all of the crud.
This is in an upcoming tutorial, BTW.
Best,
Aharon
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
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Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
Thanks Aharon. Great tutorials by the way, keep up the good work.
Kind regards
Alex
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glad I (and others) could help.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web
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