[Ashley M. kirchner]

No, I realized what was happening and it’s my own fault. I was changing keyframes that were already set previously and when I changed the position of the image on an earlier keyframe, AE will combine the previous (straight point-A to point-B movement) with this second adjustment, which then resulted in sometimes a little bit of back-and-forth or curved panning.

For example, I have a keyframe at 2s, one at 4s, and another at 6s. Now, each one has a different position on the image. Playback will pan straight from 2s to 4s to 6s. However, if I go back to the 4s keyframe and change the position of the image to somewhere else, what will happen is that when I playback, AE will start movement at 2s and do as if it’s heading to the previous position of 4s, then midway it will change direction and head for the new position. The straight line is now a curve. Then as it leaves the 4s mark, it makes a beeline for where the previous 4s position was and again change direction midway to head for the 6s position.

I don’t know if this is normal behavior nor if there’s a way to tell AE to “forget” the previous 4s position and just move, in a straight line, from the 2s position to the 4s position to the 6s position.

I’ve already redid the whole timeline and it’s working the way I expect it to. I just know not to go change any of the keyframes in the center otherwise I may get screwed again.

As for the zooming part, yes I’m just scaling the image larger (for 1 second) then back to 100% during the panning part (which can last up to 7 seconds.) I’ll go play with the anchors some more, see if I can figure it out. And yes, AE is new to me, I’m still learning.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

Also related to this question, when I’m panning and looking for the next part of the image I want to zoom in to, a lot of times I end up going back and forth, up and down across the image till I find a spot again. Unfortunately, AE tends to record all those movements as well. How can I tell it to just pan from point A to point B and ignore all my other movements between those two key frames?

See, the image is a large mosaic of pictures and I’m starting (at 100%) on one area of the image and zoom in to 150%, then I want to gradually zoom out (back to 100%) as I’m also panning to the next spot on the image, then pause and zoom in again (to 150%). Repeat that process a few times and then finally zoom all the way out (roughly 5%) where you can see the whole image.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

I can’t go directly from camera to burner since I’ll be creating menus in Encore prior to burning the disc. And there will also be some editing/cutting before the final video is burned, so I plan on capturing in PPro first, edit, then export and head on over into Encore.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

It’s entirely possible that you got a bad burn on the ISO. I would try to recreate it again.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

You couldn’t pay me enough to use Vista at this time. Maybe in a year or two…

[Ashley M. kirchner]

Ugh. I have 4GiB in the system and XP is running with the /3gb flag to allow for more memory usage, though I don’t know if Premiere is aware of that switch. Unfortunately, at this point, I think that’s all that we’re limited to. As many early adopters found out, Premier doesn’t do very well on a 64-bit OS such as Vista. 🙂

Thanks for the response Tim.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

Nah, I just wanted to verify what I understood is what I read … or what I read is what I understood. Oh, you get the idea. 🙂 Thanks David.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

In your Playback Settings, make sure the audio is set to External Device Audio (by default it’s set to Desktop Audio.) Once changed, audio will be disabled from the desktop and passed to the external device.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

That option is checked, and Encore does tell me it’s erasing the disc before it writes back to it. I’m not blaming Encore simply because I *know* it can burn a good disc the first time around (or on a regular DVD-R), time and time again. I am however questioning the R/W discs OR Encore ability to properly erase the disc before writing to it again.

The drive’s a Memorex DL 16x and I’m using Sony R/W for testing. The Sony DVD-R’s are fine, I’ve done several (50 – 100 discs) projects with them already and haven’t had a single one fail on me yet.

I haven’t had a chance to test the discs in Nero yet. Hopefully I can do that later today.

[Ashley M. kirchner]

For someone who just started working with Encore and who’s still learning the ropes, your book sounds like a good purchase. I am still looking for the other information, but I have to start somewhere. 🙂