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slightly OT – do I have to go through “juicer” when using Digital Juice – jumpbacks?
I’m working for a client that wants me to use Digital Juice Jumpbacks instead of creating my own backgrounds.
In the past I’ve just moved them straight off the dvd and used them as-is.
One of their editors told me that I HAD to use the juicer software cause they were proxy files.
I’ve used the juice software when I was using an AVID (wouldn’t work otherwise), but in Final Cut, I’ve never had any problems.Could it be that I’ve been using them wrong?
I usually work in the dv world of compression,
and I’ve never noticed low quality or problems when I use the .movs right off the dvd. -
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I’ve always done what you’ve done, just drag them in to a folder on the hard drive and then imported them into my project or a bin without using juicer. I’ve not had any problems.
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This applies to the sound effects library, not the jumpbacks. The sound effects library has proxy files & high rez 96K 24 bit files. The juicer lets you search through the audio files & convert to 44 or 48K.
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Jumbacks are quicktime movies in the Apple JPEG format at around 47 mbits/sec, 720 x 576. The Juicer utility is a combination file browser and batch conversion tool for converting the Jumbacks to files that match your sequence settings. You could do the same thing in quicktime or Compressor. While dragging the files into your project will work (FCP 5.x will resize the media to fit your current project settings), you will have to render the clips as they won’t match your sequence settings.
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Hi,
Using the Juicer is not *required* however, you might want to consider it because the Juicer knows whether the animation was created at 30 fps or 60 fps and can properly field the animations for you accordingly. You can bring right into AVID or AE or whatever but the time advantage of doing so isn’t all that great. At most it takes a 4 to 10 minutes to fully process a Jump Back in your codec via Juicer.
If I was planning to do compositing in AE or Motion I’d probably bring it in straight from the DVD to those apps. If I was going to take it straight to my editor I feel Juicer is the preferred option if you want the animation to look and playback as designed.
My 2 cents,
Dave Hebel
Digital Juice, Inc. -
I’ve always used AE to render Jumpbacks because it renders faster than Juicer.
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