Bendex
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Can you upload the rendered video somewhere so we can look at it?
Ben.
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On the timeline there is a ‘quality’ toggle. Make sure it’s set to ‘best’. Setting the quality to best in the render settings isn’t enough.
Bendex.
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Try to find an option for turning off fields. The option might be called “Progressive”.
We use Procoder which can convert just about anything to just about anything. It has presets so you can quickly make a file suitable for the web.
Bendex.
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That looks like a tough nut to…track. There’s nothing to latch onto that stays on screen the whole time.
Have you tried doing it frame by frame? Shouldn’t take more than a couple hours. Maybe forget changing the sky and just animate a lens flair over the sun frame by frame. That way would be more forgiving if you’re a few pixels out every now and again.
Bendex.
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I connected a friend’s cheap computer to the deck using the same cabling and it worked. I was so excited. At least I know it exists now. The cheap computer has it’s firewire port built into the motherboard. It also has the same version of Avid on it so that rules that out.
The monster computer has a pyro PCI 64 card, as well as a firewire port built into the sound card. I tried them both while the other one was Disabled but still nothing. Avid still gets output with both cards though.
Looks like video preview will never happen for my computer. 🙁
Bendex.
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A friend brought his new Miranda DV Birdge Pro over and After Effects is still giving the same error “Device type doesn’t match output mode selected”. The internal firewire card must be the problem. Or I’m doing something really stupid in After Effects.
Thank you to everyone for their input so far. Nice place you have here.
Bendex.
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DV card? You mean the deck? We have a new Pyro firewire card in the computer.
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Our DV camera gets back today. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Bendex.
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I’ve faced many different kinds of “flickering” over the years.
You may need to render “lower field first”, if that doesn’t work try “upper field first.”
In the After Effects window containing your footage, right click on your clips and interperate footage (upper or lower) before rendering.
Try render with a different codec.
Make sure your quality switches on each layer aren’t set to “draft.”
Fine lines will flicker unless you use the Field Blur filter.
Bendex.
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I’ve done stuff like that, like when my cameraman does a quick and nasty blue screen shoot with shadows casting and the subjects arms flapping off the side.
First mask out as much of the background as you can, remember you can animate mask shapes with key frames. If you use the “Color range” filter you can select many different colours to key out. As long as none of the background colours are in your foreground subject, you should be able to get an ok result. Not as nice as the ipod ad but if you then put some kind of pattern in the background which is the same colour as the silhouette (I once used snow flake illustrations) it can hide a lot of the crappiness.
Bendex.