Aharon Rabinowitz
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A quick solution is to use the simple choker – Effect > Matte Tools > Simple Choker – you can use this to choke the edges.
You also may want to precomp the animation and try keylight on the nested composition.
but the tuth is – I;m just guessing. you may want to take this over to the revisionFX forum here at the cow, where people, I’m sure, have already come across this problem.
Best,
Aharon
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Don’t feel too bad, when AE 7 came out, and had this new interface, I came across the problem, and was completely baffled.
We all have to start somewhere.
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[Raymond Motion Pictures] “In your testing, did you ever try an extremely high rate Flash 7 encode at, say, 1500kbps for upload?”
yes, and you can see those here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PrUftJgPcUo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9YJZ1tYUytY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=txoSMiduObY
However, shortly after doing these tests, YouTube stopped allowing users to upload FLV’s without their re-encoding it. It is not possible. No matter what you upload, they re-encode it.
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you can try Effect > Channel > Remove color matting
Do it to each piece of footage.
At this point, I have no idea what you are doing to get these results. You may want to walk us through the process so that we can find the error (if there is one).
Mention each step and every program you are using. Don’t skip anything or we may miss something.
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you can change the frame rate for the project, by choosing View > Project settings and changing it there.
You can;t change the frame rate of an emitter though. Unless you mean changing the speed of the changing image in an emitter that uses an image sequence.
In that case use the slider found in the emitter properties next to the picture of the particle Shape image (in the particles Tab).
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Sounds like a straight vs. Premultiplied Alpha channel issue.
watch this video and see if it helps:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/straight_vs_premult.php
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you need to have either your switches or modes column visible.
In the right bottom corner, click on either the left most button or the one next to it, or right click on any column in the timeline and choose
Columns > Switches
or
Columns > Modes
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or, you can just right click on the footage in the project window and from the pop-up choose replace footage. This will replace every instance of the footage with your new footage.
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Immediately following my article on YouTube Compression, YouTube changed how they do things. No matter what you upload, it automatically gets re-encoded.
To my knowledge, YouTube still uses Flash 7. It does not use Flash 8 (VP6) as is evident in the quality of their videos. I’ve read nothing reliable to indicate that they have upgraded.
Since YouTube’s alliance with Apple the word out was that all videos were being re-encoded as H.264, but it’s unclear as to exactly when and if this will happen. It may only be related to Apple TV and mobile devices, but that the site will continue as Flash 7.
Just for comparison, here is a flash video I have encoded with VP6:
https://www.allbetsareoff.com/video/vid_Zsquad.html
And here is what it looks like after I upload that flash VP6 video to YouTube:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OFyrrgfroyY
In my experience, the only thing that will keep a YouTube video looking good is if it has low motion. In fact, a long video with low motion can look quite crisp – almost uncompressed – because during the compression process, more data can be allocated to the places that need it (so a few high-motion areas vs. the rest of it with low motion).
But the short of it is – YouTube is not a good place to be uploading your video if you want to keep the quality up. Period. Despite what anyone says, YouTube ALWAYS re-encodes your video. They don’t want you using your own settings.
[Raymond Motion Pictures] “320×240 – 30fps – start with 400bps – the flv file should then be served up as is.”
Where did you hear this? 400Bps is Extremely low. maybe you mean Kbps? Either way, to my knowledge they are still encoding anything uploaded to their servers.
Look, I’m the first person to admit when I’m wrong, so if anyone knows differently I;d love to hear it. I spent 1.5 months fully researching video for the web (I did nothing but reading tech documents and talking to people at On2 and Sorenson and Adobe) while preparing my DVD “Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web.”
As far as superiority of format (not to be confused with codec) it’s arguable. Flash 8 video vs. MP4 vs. WMV is iffy. The one thing that Flash 8 has is that virtually every computer connected to the web can see them, and that flash player updates within SECONDS – not so for Quicktime or WMV. But each format has pluses and minuses. Personally, everything that I encode these days is Flash – this way I know I’m reaching my audience.
As far as what format to upload, best to start with the highest quality video under 100 MB – WMV performs decently in creating lower file sizes at good quality, but in the end, it all uploads to youtube looking bad.
FYI – MOV’s uploaded to youtube often lose A/V synch. At least that’s been my experience.
Hope this helps clarify some things.
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watch this tutorial for info on Photoshop Vanishing Point in AE CS3:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Vanishing_Point.php
Aharon Rabinowitz
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