Andy Hawk
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Ahh worked it out. Make a master style in essential graphics (in case anyone else has the same question in the future)
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Hi Jeff,
I tried to import the CS4 into a new CS5 project but still get the same problem.here is the video codec details after running through Gspot:
Audio: PCM audio 48000Hz 1536 kb/s tot (2 chnls)
Video: Indeo 5.xI see in the status on Gspot: Codec(s) are NOT Installed
Just compared the media encoder settings of CS4 and CS5, there is indo video 5.10 codec in the CS4, but it is not in the export video codec settings of the CS5.
So that is probably the problem 🙂
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…some more info. CS5 is running on a new laptop (win 7 64bit) compared to the CS4 project which was assembled on my older laptop(running Vista). Is it a Codec thing maybe? If so how to fix? any help appreciated.
Thanks
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Two reasons for how you can lose your mask handles:
- handle box in view options is unchecked.
solution: go to ‘View’ tab > view options > then check handles box is checked
- RotoBezier has been enabled
solution: go to ‘Layer’ tab > mask and shape path > uncheck RotoBezier
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Windows Vista: C:UsersuserAppDataRoamingAdobeAdobe Media Encoder4.0Presets
A quicker way is to Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the ‘Save Preset’ button which is to the right of the Preset tab once you have opened the ‘export settings’ window. Then you can choose what location you want to copy the preset to.
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Ahh so the player crushes the black you think? interesting. Ok I will play with the levels. Thanks Walter.
Though I am aware of temporally compressed media limitations and Guru Dave’s stock answer I have never had a problem with AE freakin when working with my .mts files. Although I usually only work with 15 sec clips. Anything longer than a few minutes I proxie. The reason I am aiming for a perfect black in my exported files is that they are going to my stock footage website.
So now my drama is whether to give my public the rawest possible data from AE without crushing the blacks, or the nicer image of a clean black background on all my night shots.
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Noted.
Thanks again for all the advice. I will stick with the QT animation codec at medium res. Seems to give acceptable results with little degradation.Cheers !
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Thanks Jeff.
Just for the record it was exported out of AE at the max that you can do:
Quicktime movie (and tried video for windows)
quality=best
resolution=full
compression=none RGB+AlphaMpeg streamclip is the best program I have come across for massively reducing file sizes without compromising quality. Any idea of other programs to try, which could possibly compress 400Mb alpha channel movie down to the size of a mouse (5-50Mb)?
Hope the blokes at Squared5 can put alpha channel recognition into their next build 🙁
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No problem 🙂
Try the H264, you might be surprised. I use H264 because it gets the best quality of picture (in my experience). My job is taking stock footage. So the quality has to be sharp and amazing. -
Others may have better ways, but I drag the video into Mpeg streamclip and export it out as a Quicktime H.264 movie. It gets a 2Gb video down to 100-300Mb size. And plays on every machine (that I have tried) without stuttering and freezing.