Aharon Rabinowitz
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click on my head at the top of the forum, and if you scroll down, you’ll find 3 tutorials on displacement mapping.
Hope it helps.
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h.264 is a codec, not a format. You need a container file format (such as AVI or Quicktime) to contain the codec. My suggestion is always this: render in a lossless format and codec (Quicktime with Animation compression for example) and then use a compression program (like Sorenson Squeeze or Compressor) to conver the video to the compressed (lossy) format/codec you intend to use for the web.
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I wonder if you could do the staffs using the ipod light streak Technique that Andrew Kramer did in his tutorial here at the cow.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano.php
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don’t export from AE – Render. Choose composition > Make Movie, and then set it up in the output module.
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Yeah – my advice was to TEST with uncompressed video. Not to use it. The goal was to see if the problem was related to codec or not.
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DVD video is compressed video and because of that may always have bad compression artifacts.
Again, what software you use to compress the video will make a huge difference.
The only way to know for sure though is to do some testing:
try using uncompressed video and letting your DVD program compress it
Use a compression program like Sorenson Squeeze or Compressor to compress your video and then put it on DVD.
Remember the large video files are only temporary until the files are put on DVD.
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the other possibility is that your avi is using a video codec pillusion doesn’t understand.
What kind of AVI are you trying to import. If DV-AVI, try something else. Just as a test, try a short uncompressed AVI, or a an AVI with Cinepack or some other compression codec.
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Read this and see if it helps:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/23/859598#859653
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OK, so the problem is only when the camera is moving – and not the layers. I had never noticed that, but sure enough, there it is.
This is a pain in the arse solution because it will slow everything down, but it will work.
Add an adjustment layer to the top of the comp.
Add the force motion blur effect to the adjusment layer (effect > Time > CC Force motion Blur).
I did a tutorial on this effect (click on my head at the top of the forum) which explains how it works.
Oh! – Turn of motion blur for everything (layers, not just the comp’s blur) or it will add additional blur to some things already being blurred by the effect.
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There area few issues here…
when you say “fit on DVD” do you mean for storage or to play on a DVD player (home theater)?
If you mean to play on a DVD player, then you have a few options. Most DVD authoring programs, upon burning, will convert your uncompressed video to a format (mpeg-2) that will play in a DVD player.
As Steve mentioned, A better option might be to use a video compression program like sorenson squeeze or Apple compressor to do it – you have more control over quality, and even the default settings will probably give you better results than your DVD authoring program.
But if you question is more an issue of keeping a quicktime on a DVD for storage or delivery purposes, then you have 2 options here that I can think of:
1) Lower the quicktime quality settings in your Output Module’s Format options area, or change the codec from Animation Compression to PhotoJpeg and play with the quality settings (I assume you’re using the default quicktime Animation compression, but I could be wrong).
Or break the file up during a render, by going into your Preferences (in the Output settings) and set the “Segment Movie Files Option to no more than 4.4 GB. This will cause AE break up the quicktime mvie into several 4.4GB segments as it renders. Then you can store each segment on their own DVD.
I’d suggest you render out a separate audio file as well to avoid audio popping when you reconnect the video in your editor.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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