Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Lammy: Your case is not that different from those “footage” conversions… because your Comp has video in it 🙂
If it didn’t, you would get very good results by just creating an NTSC comp, dragging the PAL comp inside as a nested comp, and then just hitting Shrink To Fit if needed for aspect ratio conversion (Comand – Shift – F on Mac, I guess it must be Control – Shift – F on Windows, right?).
Standards Conversion in AE was always a bit better than in an NLE applications (because of higher quality speed changes) but not as good as a dedicated solution. The new Pixel Motion technology (which sounds a lot like Optical Flow) in AE 7 might give you much better results. But if that’s not the case (or meanwhile) your best bet is going to an application that has that functionality specifically engineered and built-in, ie, Procoder on the PC and (very recommended) Compressor 2 on the Mac. Standards conversion in Compressor 2 is not really preset driven, but rather has to be manually set, but it’s usually worth it. It takes forever, unfortunately.
All the best,Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Welll, there is a well known gamma shift issue when the Blackmagic codecs are installed. Is is possible that you have them on one of your machines? If so, I wouldn’t necessarilly say “remove them” (because they were working on a fix last time I checked) but rather I’d say you visit the Cow’s Decklink forum and look for answers there.
If you don’t have the Blackmagic codecs, then I have no idea 🙂
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10 bit? High precission YUV? FCP’s Motion Blur is a bad joke, regardless of any specific bug with a color space. It’s certainly not a Motion Blur process in the sense any motion graphics or compositing app use the term. For starters, it blurs internal motion which is something it shouldn’t do at all (there’s always a cheap “Trails” effect for that) and the stepping is so awfully obvious. Finally, it takes ages to render!
I never understood what they had in mind when they did this. Will they ever care to re-write it?Adolfo Rozenfeld
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That would be a fantastic feature. And particulary in Macintosh computers would require almost no coding at all, since video out is a standard feature provided by Quicktime to any application.
However, given how long it takes to render a 3D frame, in a couple of seconds you could drag that exported frame to Photoshop and send it to your video monitor (Decklink cards come with a free Photoshop Export plug-in).Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Arndt: I feel embarrased for not “seeing” something so obvious! And I’m grateful for your help and for not stating how obvious it is 🙂
Since most of the time I use the Live Selection tool with a small radius (or with objects with fairly large polygons) I never noticed that tool had a circular pattern! I always thought it just selected an unorganized “bunch” of polygons.
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By speed changes, you mean slow/fast motion or variable speed? If it’s the first thing, you just have to go to the media tab in the inspector (select the object and hit Shift-F) and change the Frame Rate setting.
For simple time remapping, you have the scrub filter (Add Filter > Time > Scrub). The frame offset parameter allows you to control a virtual playhead.
Hope this helps.Adolfo Rozenfeld
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Thanks for the information, Graeme!
It’s important to note that this doesn’t just solve the problems I was having with Motion, but it also solves a nasty behavior in After Effects, where OpenGL previews of 3D shadows gave an error message. In case it helps…
I am back to speed with both Motion and AE 🙂 I thought it was going to take weeks to solve this!
All the best,
AdolfoAdolfo Rozenfeld
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Just like Photoshop:
Add Filter > Directional Blur
Intensity: about 0.7 to 1.0, depending on how severe the flicker is.
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Well, DV is “standand defintion” with lower case. This means that It is standard definition in a strict sense, but Standard Definition with upper case is a moving target that usually applies to SD formats that are regarded as being really broadcast quality: DigiBeta, D1 (and other almost extinct “D” formats), DV50 (DVCPRO50 and Digital-S) and Betacam SP. Yes, I know that Beta SP is really another history, and even not better than DV in some aspects, but hey, I am not the one who makes the categories 🙂
The main common feature between most of these formats and the DV range is 4:2:2 color sampling and less drastic compression.
FWIW, this differentiation between DV and SD is all over Apple’s and Avid’s documentation and marketing material. Obviously, thery are not the final judges about anything, but they probably did extensive research about the people they are aiming to with their products.
You used to have DV, SD and HD as three production ranges or segments. This will surely grow to DV, SD, HDV and HD, since most people agree that HDV is really not close to Pro HD formats like HDCAM, DVCPRO HD and up.PAL D1/DV is 720×576 🙂
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Both tways are painful, but DVD Studio Pro is the way to go if you want what people expects in a DVD – the ability to turn them on or off, and eventually have more than one subtitle language. DVD Studio Pro allows you to create subtitles in a timeline, but it’s still painful (incredibly it doesn’t allow you to move several subtitle clips at the same time). In my opinion, the best way is to prepare the subtitle in STL format (a text file with timecode for each subtitle entry, and special commands for fonts, font size, color, paragraph formatting, line breaks, etc.) It’s almost impossible not to commit mistakes while typing those, but you can fix them in the text file and re-import them, rather than trying to fix your mistakes in DVD SP’s timeline. The DVD SP manual explains the whole STL process. Creating subtitles must be the most awful thing in DVD authoring. It’s easy but really tedious and full of unfogiving little mistakes 😉
On the other hand, I have a vague idea of reading in Apple’s site that someone created a script that automates creation of subtitles from text files into FCP’s timeline, with text generators. I have no idea if that script is available from the author. And as I said, you can’t turn them off or on, which is the way a DVD works.Adolfo Rozenfeld
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