Andrew Yoole
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AE has a hard limit of 30000 x 30000 pixels for comp sizes and footage sizes. You are not able to work beyond this scale, regardless of hardware.
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CC Cylinder. This plugin is included in full versions (not academic) of AE 6.5.
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I suspect right here in this forum would be a good place to start! Post a thread with a short list of requirements, your location, and a contact email address. I’m sure you’ll get plenty of responses.
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The “Black Line” is caused by the raster update of the video monitor running at a different rate to your video camera. That is, your monitor’s probably being redrawn 75 times per second, but your camera’s taking 24 pictures per second. Higher end cameras have “Clearscan” functions which can eliminate this, and big budget productions have very expensive synchronisation systems to deal with it.
Experiment with changing your monitor’s refresh rate, and with the shutter speed of your camera, to reduce the effect. I doubt you will have any success at 24fps. Assuming you are shooting NTSC, try 30fps and a 60Hz monitor refresh rate with a high shutter speed. If PAL, try 25fps and 50 or 75 Hz.
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This is easy stuff, so stop worrying! 🙂
Whoever wrote you the brief doesn’t know a whole lot themselves, but the important thing to remember is that, because you’re using DVD as the playback medium, the projector resolution is irrelevant. Here’s a step-by-step of the whole process:
In AE, use a standard AE Anamorphic Widescreen Preset to create your comp. If you’re in a PAL country, that’s PAL D1/DVD 720×576 Widescreen. If NTSC use NTSC DV Widescreen 720×480.
Render to an Animation (100%) Quicktime file.
I don’t use iDVD, but this is easy to do in DVD Studio Pro. Start by encoding your Quicktime file in Compressor – this will save lots of encoding time in the next step. Use the Best Quality 16:9 preset in Compressor. If there’s audio, output that as PCM or AC3 as well.
Create a project in DVDSP. Set the Video Standard (NTSC or PAL). Create a new track (Track 1). (There will be a menu by default – delete it if you want, or just ignore it.)
Set the disc “First Play” setting to Track 1.
Select Track 1 and set the “End Jump” setting to Track 1 (making it loop). Make sure the track is defined as 16:9, and make sure the track is NOT set to “Force 16:9 Letterbox” display.
Import your encoded MPEG2 and audio files. Drag them onto the Track 1 timeline 30 times. This will create a final 30 min DVD that auto plays and loops back on itself.
Save your project, then choose Build & Burn, and insert a blank DVD when prompted.
You’re done!
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On PC, VirtualDub is a free utility that works well.
On Mac, DVDxDV is a cheap and great utility.
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Motion is an Apple software product. For obvious reasons, it only runs on Apple hardware. Maybe in a year or two after the Apple-Intel hardware boxes roll out…
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If the shot is static, I’d just save out a frame, draw the projector light on an independent layer in Photoshop using gradients and/or soft brushes, then place the layer back into position in AE. Use Add or Screen transfer mode. Use a Wiggle expression on opacity and a colour-change effect to create variations.
If your more adventurous you could do the whole thing in AE using masked solids with gradients applied.
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If the shot is static, I’d just save out a frame, draw the projector light on an independent layer in Photoshop using gradients and/or soft brushes, then place the layer back into position in AE. Use Add or Screen transfer mode. Use a Wiggle expression on opacity and a colour-change effect to create variations.
If your more adventurous you could do the whole thing in AE using masked solids with gradients applied.
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