[Andy George]

Im not sure about exporting from AE with timecode as Ive never needed it before.

But a simple solution might be to just add the timecode to the Quicktime using quicktime after the fact.

You could export something from an editing app with timecode set up how you need it the same duration as your animation. Open the proporties tab your new “timecode” video “command J”. Select the timecode track. Hit “Extract”

Go to your animation Make sure your parked at the heads of your video and “add to movie”

Andy George

[Andy George]

Have you tried checking the anti aliasing settings under Interpret Footage?

[Andy George]

Hi Mark,

You could link the arrow head to your write-on brush position using an expression.
option click on the “arrow” layers position property to reveal the expression controls.

Grab the quickwhip (curly looking thing) and drag it to “brush position” under the write-on tab
of your write-on layer.

The resulting expression should look something like this
thisComp.layer(“Write on layer”).effect(“Write-on”)(“Brush Position”)
(layer names on your comp will be different so it wont match up exactly)

This will take the position of your brush and feed the numbers to the
position of your arrowhead.

If it does not line up correctly you can adjust your arrow layer anchor point (see pan-behind tool)
to move into alignment-

Andy

[Andy George]

If you right click on the camera you can select Transform>auto-orient to disable the point of
interest. You can also quickwhip the POI position to your camera’s position, locking them together.

[Andy George]

Thanks for your response Steve. I was afraid there is no easy work flow for this.

Unfortunately there are numerous effects applied to the stills so I was hoping to replace the
content rather than overwrite it.

I suppose I can copy my sequence onto another track-replace
the footage on the new sequence and then just copy and paste the effects after.

Now that I have had a night to stew about it I wondered if I could create an EDL and change
the image extensions from there to automate the “replace” process a bit.
Ill have to test that on a few images. Thoughts?

Thanks again
Andy

[Andy George]

Have you seen these?-

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/16/#
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/7/

[Andy George]

Total Running Time

[Andy George]

Ben your post came in about an hour after I bought the HD resolution. Doh! 🙂

Well I’m committed now. And it was only $100 for the upgrade so I won’t feel to bad if I have to down rez to work on it.

Thanks for the input all

AG

[Andy George]

Thanks for your thoughts Russ!

[Andy George]

Thanks Michael, good to know. These are regional commercials that we are doing so they will be exported to a variety of formats (best the stations can handle) If we end up cutting HD they will likely have to be down converted for output anyhow.