[Andrew Minett]

Oh yeah!

Thanks for the post.

I was cringing before but now my GTX 660M laptop card is magic for working in ray-traced 3D!

Now on to change my Premiere support.

[Andrew Minett]

System restart and everything works fine.

Figures!

[Andrew Minett]

Thanks for this post. I’m an occasional user of Final Cut and didn’t even bother to check the buttons at the top of the viewer window. My white viewer screen was directly due to it being set to Alpha!

[Andrew Minett]

Thanks for this post, Robert. I was having some frustrating issues with an image and the puppet pin tool with it only outlining areas surrounding a white section of the image even with a defined alpha channel. I drew a mask around the whole image and this allowed me to put a pin in the white problem area which defined a mesh as drawn by the mask shape.

I have my suspicions that there is some underlying issue with the puppet pin tool and the way a rasterized image is layered before flattening. In any case your method works!

Regards,
Andrew

https://www.meldmedia.com

[Andrew Minett]

That’s what I was wondering about as the finish is in NTSC. But the framerate still remains an issue and I think has to be 25 fps as I can’t add frames to the PAL footage.

Thanks again for your advice, Steve.

Andrew

[Andrew Minett]

Steve,
I’ll look around to see if I can find either of those plugins and try
the comp tips as well. I think I was on the right track but the
advice about lower field first might be the key to making things look
convincing.

I’ll be delivering on NTSC DVD, 720×480 and hopefully it will be shown
on Musique Plus in Quebec, Canada.

Cheers,
Andy

[Andrew Minett]

i have captured the contents of the tapes.. i guess i should have made this clear. so the problem isn’t really an NTSC/PAL problem as much as a resolution/framerate/widescreen-not widescreen problem.

So, I’ll again put it to the forum:

Is there a way I can take 720×480, 29.97 video and make it look like it was more or less shot on a PAL camera in widescreen? (That would be 720×576, 25 fps with black bars). I’ve tried stretching it out and dropping the framerate within the render settings of AE but I’m not convinced this is the best method. As far as the widescreen bars go should I just create two solids of 53 pixels each on the top and bottom of the video? This would match the resolution of the PAL footage.

Anyway, in the end I’m more or less wondering if I should even bother with the whole thing at all.

Thanks for any ideas here.

Andrew