Andrew Mehta
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COW Coins
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=P Even with my current method, there are plenty of fluffs, coughs, and retakes. Lol. ^_^.
I currently record on cam, to a looped range, waving my hand infront of the camera between each take, then listen back to them all whilst it’s digitising, typing notes as to which sounds best. Then take ’em out of the bin, chop ’em up, get it down to about 3 of the good ones, and play ’em in succession to see which one sounds the best, then drop it into the timeline.
Meh…maybe it is better, but, I remember when I first went to do a voiceover, was just shocked there wasn’t a dub feature in 7.5, and wonder if that was addressed in any of the later versions?
Would be nice to record it straight into the system, rather than to tape first.
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Oh hang on…you have Producer on a notebook?
I believe the modern Media100s have options to automatically letterbox media. So it’ll likely be a lot easier on your notebook, than on the G4. -
On import there should be an option to either honour the file’s original aspect, or use 4:3 aspect ratio, or 16:9 aspect ratio.
If it comes in as 16:9 it will be anamorphic…thus it will look like normal 16:9 on a widescreen TV, but like squished 4:3 on a normal 4:3 TV, this is done so it always maintains full resolution. It should display as 16:9 in M100’s playback window however. [If you get any probs with this, try changing your hardware digitising settings to 16:9 too (Edit:Preferences:Hardware..), and then importing, but usually the drop down menu in the import options should suffice].
If you want it to actually be a letterboxed 4:3, so it looks widescreen even on normal 4:3 monitors, then you can use Boris to create a letterbox effect for 4:3 screens. There are different ways to do this, but I usually do my editing with it all squished, and then when finished export as a “by reference” file, then I create a composition clip the same length, double click it to go into Boris FX. Change the track type by clicking the type icon, and selecting “Media File” and then selecting the by ref file I just exported. Then I use the down arrows on that layer to get to the face track, select the aspect ratio as 16:9 – the media stops being squished, but is now wider than the screen space, so I then click the top part of the media layer, and the position settings appear, and I just change the scale to about 75%, or sometimes 70%, depending what looks better, and then quit and return to M100. Then hit render, and it conforms the media to letterbox.
Phew! =P Am using Media100i 7.5 in OS9 with Boris FX 6.1 so if that sounds a bit of a convoluted way round, there’s a chance it might be simpler in your version 8.2.3a in OSX.
Tip: It can be frustrating when composition clips become accidentally unrendered. If you want the media more secure in that sense, then after rendering it, go to import again, and visit the folder where all your media files are digitisised to. Order it by date, and the most recent file will be your render – ending with a HAL extension. Import it in, and you’ll now have you comp clip as a normal green video clip to play about with.
It’s still useful to keep the original comp clips however, if you ever need to double click them to go back into boris and check the settings, or make changes, etc. -
…as I was typing before my PC crashed and had to be restarted, I failed to mention previously, you’re actually in the now-non-flickering credits, along with the COW.^_^
Have also done a Warren Eig, and added Media100 and Boris FX logos to the tail end, under a “Made With:” heading. 😉 -
Yeah, just posted above [reply to my last post] that it did [work out]. Ta ^_^
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Brilliant!
Just re-rendered, and it worked like a charm!
Probably should have guessed it myself, since the frame order looked wrong, but leaving the default at lower had never been a problem in the past.Anyway, it’s nice, because the “render fields as frames” option makes the polygons look a lot more hi-res.
Too busy to redo the whole animation now though. Might revisit it in a week or so if I get some spare time though.
Ta.
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That is odd, though to be fair I have only used it in the OSX flavours of the software/Media 100. Perhaps it is something they altered.
>>>Yeah, I’m talking Boris FX 6.1, and Graffiti 1.0
Just checking though, is the video beneath just “showing through” or are you using a video track within Boris?
>>>It’s a dedicated media track [3D plain, imported M100 By-Ref clip].
Are you using Boris as an effect, a comp or a title?
>>>A Composition Clip.
Check the preferences are set for “upper field first” for video as well, mine always seem to default to NTSC’s lowerfield.
>>>Yeah, hang on, the Media’s FACE is set to lower field. And Interpret Field Order in preferences is Lower Field.
I’ll try changing the FACE to upper and re-render, and let you know how I get on.
Having said that, I’ve actually finished the effect I was working on last week, and got past this problem by just leaving “render fields as frames” unchecked. It’d be quite a major headache to go through all last week’s work and re-render it all. But if this works, I’ll know for future use, so ta. -
Well thats odd, as I can’t have that feature turned on when there’s video beneath the graphics, or the video flickers instead. For credits its plain black, so doesn’t matter, but when I tried it with my rotating polygons over a video, the jaggies in the polygons were reduced, but the video flickered like it had the wrong field order all of a sudden.
Hence I don’t usually have that option ticked by default.
In this case though, I saw the biggest improvement from softening the edges, as it took some of the thinner parts that were causing problems and diffused them into the black so they sat on it a bit better.
Render fields as frames did help a bit too mind, but the softening clinched it.
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I used to make my credits using bitmap sequences and flash, so, have used seperate programmes in the past, but now I’ve got Boris FX, I’ve got lazy and like doing everything from the M100 timeline, although I will keep my eyes peeled for the “reduce interlace flicker” filter next time I’m in AE as that sounds groovy ^_^.
But I just solved the problem in Boris, by performing the following additional steps:
selected “Render fields as frames” in preferences
set edge softening to “1”.It looks a bit fuzzy in places, due to the softening/blur, but it doesn’t flicker at all now.
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I’d actually love to get my hands on a copy of Red 2.5, as I’m in OS9 still with M100 7.5 and I’ve heard that Red 2.5 works in OS9 as well.
Having said that, I’ve managed to pull off the tricks I want so far by using Boris FX and Graffeti together. Just means twice the rendering. =P