Aharon Rabinowitz
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If you want anything more specific than that, you’re going to need to tell us what software you’re using.
In What program are you capturing the video off your camera?
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[Daniel Low] “No point using an uncompressed codec if the source was compressed”
With full respect, I disagree. Every time you compress you lose quality. If your source is compressed, you will only make it worse by compressing twice. Although I agree with you that photo JPEG is within the zone of good looks. It’s a great compromise when you have to.
However – Episode is a mac only program, which Arty has not said he’s on. Also, Arty is controlling (at least it’s my understanding) the original footage so that he should be able to get the source uncompressed. I might be wrong about that.
But, let me say this… waste of space is never a good excuse with compression. You should only compress (use a lossy codec) at the last step. No matter what. That’s the nature of video – it takes up a lot of space when you do it right.
Oh – out of curiosity – as someone who has never used Episode – what makes it “more professional?” I always want to learn more on the subject.
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but it’s at 16:9 – you’re going to cut off the edges of your screen on both sizes if you make it 4:3.
Well, if that’s what you want to do, use the cropping feature in Squeeze – in the video window you can just grab the edges and crop with the red lines. I have not used this feature, but that;s what it’s there for.
You best bet however is to follow my instructions from the last post only instead of fitting everything in, just drop the 16:9 video into the main comp and DON’T shrink it to fit 4:3. It should fill up the entire thing – BUT your edges will be cut off.
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well, you shouldn’t compress in AE. You can, but you shouldn’t because it looks terrible, compared to compressing in a video compression program. But for preview purposes it’s OK.
In your render queue, in the output module, you choose the format options – that’s the place where the different codecs come up.
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THis could be any number of problems.
If it’s an uncompressed video that you’ve rendered out, and you’re trying to play it in quicktime or windows media player (for example)it may play jumpy because there is too much data coming at your video player at once – you’re processor can’t keep up with that so it skips frames. Uncompressed video is not meant for playback – try compressing your final video and see if that helps.
If it is playing badly on a TV screen, it may be that you need to render with fields (interlaced). Motion that looks good on a computer can often look bad on a TV screen. Interlacing can fix that.
It could also be that you just need to add motion blur, but I suspect that that’s not the problem.
Best,
Aharon
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Hi Terry-
OK – off topic, but it’s been like forever… How are you? Hope things are going well for you.
Best,
Aharon
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[Arty Gold] “i’m messing with some of the codecs and it seems to be working”
Make sure to use uncompressed video or a lossless or near lossless codec – quicktime with animation compression is a great example of that.
[Arty Gold] “my next question is how would i go about taking my videos shot at 16×9 ratio (720p)
to compress down to a 4:3 (320 x240) without having it look all squished and smashed ?”Hmmm. I don’t think you can do that in squeeze, but I am not in front of my work computer and can;t check that at the moment.
What program are you rendering your video in?
Normally, in After Effects, before rendering, I’d take the final widescreen composition and nest it into a 4:3 comp and scale it down proprtionally to fit in my 4:3 comp, giving it the black bars (letterboxing) above and below.
Since I don’t know your situation, I’d say – render out the movie as 16:9, then bring it back into your video editor and place it in a 4:3 comps and scale it to fit in there, same as above.
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check out the latest AE podcast – it covers creating rain.
https://www.creativecow.net/aepodcast
of course it depends on what you are really trying to do.
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those are both great tutorials.
You can also get rid of the Point of Interest and have the camera turn based on the motion path (the position of the camera over time) by selecting the camera and choosing Layer > Transform > Auto Orient, and set it from “Point of Interest” to “Orient along Path.”
When a layer orients along it’s motion path it faces the front of the layer towards the current direction it’s moving. So as the path curves, the camera turns.
You can use the rotation and orientation properties to add additional rotation animation.
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By “rendered” video, I mean exported or whatever your video editing program calls what it does when it makes a final video file.
You are putting the rendered video into squeeze.
So, before squeeze, in your video editor, in the place where you prepare the settings for export or output or render – that’s what I’m talking about. That;s where you need to change the video codec.
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