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Dave,
You bring up a very good point. I’m however not as deep pocketed as I would prefer so I’m going to be trying to do this on a 60D. Recently released by Canon. If you know of any DSLR tricks of the trade I’d be more than happy to hear them as this is my first adventure out with these little cameras. To my knowledge they don’t meet the specification you mentioned. However my output source will be no bigger than an average television, computer monitor so while the keying may be not as clean, the smaller size should lend itself to obscuring that fact some. Fingers crossed.

Thanks.

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Thanks for the responses. I think the trampoline may be the best bet. I can get him to go vertical and still have the side to side motion. Then just composite it. Are there any foreseeable problems for keying if I’m shooting at a faster frame rate so I can slow it down in post?

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Its a comedy and he’s only going to be in the air doing the cartwheel. not actually touching the car or anything. It’s as if he’s been hit and he is flying over the car with his feet above his head.

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Also I’m creating the layer from a solid–basic text–so there’s nothing but the text and the effect.

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Thanks. I’ve been trying to use Particle Playground but it so RAM heavy I’m not really able to scroll through to see what I have without getting an error message stating I don’t have enough memory. I have plenty of disk space and I have the preview button set at “THIRD” so i can move a little faster. But still I run into the same problem when I try to switch any of the settings. Other than that I think if I could get it to work your suggestions for using PP instead of CCSnow looks like it will work for what I’m doing. Any suggestions? Thanks.

MAC OS X
10.4.11
Dual 2.7 GHz Power PC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM

AE CS3

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Let’s see how can I explain it. When I watch the timelined version on the computer monitor everything is fine. The aspect ratios are all correct. But when I burn it to a dvd and watch it on a regular television the sides of the footage work fine then out of no where they jump in about an inch. After that it stays in that aspect ratio for most of the remaining video.

Thanks for your help.

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Shane,

Thanks for replying. I’ll try that out. I have one more question if you’ve got a sec. I have some rendered files that when I view on my monitor everything looks great, but after I’ve viewed a dvd version I notice the aspect ratio jumps at the edge of my screen. I looked on the timeline and there are no cuts at that point. So my question is do you know why this might be. Thanks so much for your time.

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I think it’s FCP 5. Tonight, I started all over after two months of General Errors. Timecode breaks, kernel crashes…with the 4.5 even though my deadline is coming up I’ll actually save time working on a program that actually gets the job done. So far, all of the logging has been fine same deck, different comp. I don’t know if was an FCP5 tiger combo…or what…but now that it’s working I’m just going to stick with the older version. Seems like it’s having less problems. It’s just really wack that’s for sure. Arrrggghhh!!!! But thanks for the reply.

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thanks

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do you have aim?