[Adriano Moraes]

Oh I see! My bad!

I guess applying Posterize Time (set to 5 or something) followed by CC Time Blend and playing with the settings might get you somewhere.

Cheers!

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[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there!

I would point you to experiment with the Strobe Light effect and play with settings.

I believe you can achieve something quite like that without to much of a problem.

Hope it helps.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Glad I could help.

I can’t remember how many times little things just sliped through my sight and I ended up puzzled for hours until I realized it was just the one switch or one little step I skiped.

AE has that kind of power over us I guess.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there.

You probably have the Collapse Transformations switch checked. (that little sun next to the little guy on the switches tab.

Hope it helps.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there!

By previewing you mean RAM preview? Like hitting the 0 key on your num pad?

Or are you hitting the space key?

I can always hit 0 and go somewhere else while it does it (i.e. internet browser, desktop) and when it´s ready it simply starts flashing and I click back to watch the preview. Never had any problems.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Sorry here´s a working link:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e582318b176312ea63a9b11-8000.html

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Hi there!

According to the AE documentation:

“The Alpha Levels effect has been removed. Instead, use the Levels effect, which can be assigned to work only on an alpha channel, has a histogram, and is a 32-bpc effect. Old projects that use the Alpha Levels effect will still open, and you will still be able to modify the Alpha Levels effect properties in these projects: Levels effect”

Hope it helped.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Indeed. If only all players were the same.

Everywhere I tested the transitions were almost imperceptible.

Just a tiny pause. I´ve seen those in market DVDs all around.

The main thing is the client played the DVD on a gimmicky Blu-Ray player. That alone gave him another perspective on the idea. Like playing DVDs on VLC media player if you´ve ever done that.

Thanks for the input on the very fact that replication won´t change a thing. But I trust the fact that what I did couldn´t have been done any better.(at least on a sw like encore—charging encore prices)

I´m still waiting to hear from the guy. Let´s see.

Let´s all hope for a better/more consistent media on our ever changing work world.

Thanks again mate!

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

Hello Eric. Thanks for takin’ the time to answer my question.

Sorry if I didn´t make it quite clear. What I meant by crack was the point where the DVD changes from one clip to the other. Like when you have a motion intro and its end action is the motion menu. It always gives us a little freeze break before continuing. I know there´s not much you can do about it since it´s actualy a fisical thing on the laser reader changing from one clip to the other. What I wanted to know was how much the quality of the media influences on how harsh/perceptable the break is and if the DDP master has some advantages over the ISO I usualy record.

I do have sound but always position the cut right on a silent or changing spot so it goes almost without showing.

Well in the end I simply put my money on the table and said: “Go for it. The DVD is good.” Let´s see.

I also found out that the guy was watching the DVD preview I sent him on a blu-ray player that also plays DVDs and was having brutal problems that I really think were happening because of it. (he described me encoding artifacts, problems with clips reloading, a thumbnail on the corner of the screen on every chapter change…and I didn´t have any of that on any of my computers nor on my regular DVD player)

Well thanks again for answering and trying to help.

Cheers!

ninguem
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[Adriano Moraes]

[Walter Soyka] “2011’s answer to the lens flare.”

Indeed. But it´ll have to put up a good fight against Magic Bullet Looks to win this one.

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