Annaël Beauchemin
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[walter biscardi] “Actually this is incorrect. Any DV or Uncompressed SD NTSC footage should be Interpreted in After Effects as Lower Field First. To leave this “off” will result in a lower quality render. “
In AE, the “Interpret footage” dialog is an unclear matter. The “Separate Fields” should be read as “Deinterlace Footage”. When you select “Off”, nothing i done to the footage; if it’s progressive it stays progressive; if interlaced, it stays interlaced. When you select either upper or lower field, it will deinterlace the footage, either by field duplication or field blending (I suppose it is field blending).
When you are not doing any DVE move, if should be set to Off. When you are doing DVE moves, you have no choice to deinterlace because field order will be messed up. But you do loose quality when you choose activate “Separate Fields” because it will deinterlace.
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[Darren5102] “Q: did you separate fields? A: I interpreted my footage as ‘lower field first'”
This is your problem. Like I said, when you do this, AE will deinterlace your footage so as a consequence you loose resolution. Switch it to Off and render back.
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In AE, select your movie file and hit command-F. This will open the Footage interpretation window. Is the Separate Fields set to lower? If so, AE deinterlace your footage and you get half the resolution.
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You could have used the Paste Atributes function.
What FCp does when you put a clip that has “Anamorphic” checked is to change the aspect value in Motion -> Distort -> Aspect. Once it’s inside the timeline, unchecking the box won’t fix the aspect value, you need to change it yourself in the Motion tab.
Put the aspect to 0 (or -12.5 for square pixel source as far as I remember) on one picture. Then select it, copy it (command-c) then select every other pictures, right click -> Paste attributes -> check Distort and hit enter. Voil
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[grinner] “I’ve seen many changes… most for the better but I can’t say I’m a fan of the new Media Composer. I had a Meridien-based Symphony and I got more than my money’s worth. It was VERY used when I got it and I went on to kick the heck out of it daily for the next 2.5 years. I billed out well over a half million dollars on that box before it finally croaked. Now I have an Adrenaline HD and I can’t tell you how much I wish I had just fixed the ole Symphony. The Adrenaline is buggy, overpriced and in a few more software upgrades, I’d say it may be ready for a version 1 release to the public. Right now, we as paying customers are beta testing for Avid as they try to sift through the buggyness.”
I’ve been learning Avids recently (being a young editor coming from FCP) and i’ve been surprised by the stability of MC adrenaline on a XW8000. I’ve worked on long and pretty complex sequences sharing both XDCAM MXFs and 2:1 media with only very few bugs that I could workaround easily.
On the opposite, on a mac Symphony (meridien) I get lots of random errors popping up, render corruption (especialy with QT imports), sluggish timeline and GUI responsiveness, very limited RT (you need to render audio dissovles on a symphony! are we still in the 90s?).
Is there anyone else working on MCA without problem or am I just plain lucky?
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thanks all for the recomendations. While there’s no easy and fast solution, your techniques will be of help sometime for sure.
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thanks all for the recomendations. While there’s no easy and fast solution, your techniques will be of help sometime for sure.
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[jimmybee500] “From what I gather, Coyote is after a ‘sharp’ border of a certain size (eg: 3 pixels) which he can apply to any other layer?”
yes, i’m after the sharp, simple non-cpu intensive border effect which every NLE has.
The Stoke effect needs a mask to work with. You can’t just apply it on the layer and get a border. Plus, like you say, it will have round edges.
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[jimmybee500] “From what I gather, Coyote is after a ‘sharp’ border of a certain size (eg: 3 pixels) which he can apply to any other layer?”
yes, i’m after the sharp, simple non-cpu intensive border effect which every NLE has.
The Stoke effect needs a mask to work with. You can’t just apply it on the layer and get a border. Plus, like you say, it will have round edges.
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i’m working on 5.1.2 on two G5s using radeon 9800. No problem at all. Both of those macs even have Avid codecs installed and run fine!
But then, it’s only been two days since i’m working with 5.1.2. Maybe there’s more to come…