Ben G unguren
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The red flash sounds like a codec issue to me. Try exporting just a part of your video from vegas as a Quicktime with the Animation codec set to full quality. My guess is that particular codec won’t give you any flashes (but it might also be prohibitively huge).
FWIW it would be much easier if you posted a screenshot (or screencast!) of these red flashes; I’m having a hard time understanding what they look like (other than that they’re red, and probably brighter than most things in your image).
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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A quick search on mylenium’s AE Error database gave me two “time stream” errors, though it didn’t have any information on the exact error you’re encountering:
https://aeerrors.myleniumstuff.de/?p=408
https://aeerrors.myleniumstuff.de/?p=1067Based on what I see there, you may want to try disabling expressions, especially “value_at_time” and looping ( “loopOut()” ) expressions. The problem may also be related to “compound keyframes” like masks or hue/saturation (where multiple values are stored in a single keyframe).
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I’ve noticed this as well. My [mildly informed] guess is that FCP Studio is able to effectively copy the render and source files into a quicktime container and then flatten that into a single quicktime file. So it’s only a matter of copying files where a render has taken place. Recall that in FCP there is an option to “Recompress all frames.”
PPro, on the other hand (and most other apps for that matter) chooses to recompress everything. Or, if you will, “Recompress all frames” is always turned on.
Another issue is that preview renders sometimes aren’t at the same quality/format as the final output, but I’m still not sure how that part works….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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There isn’t a magic bullet solution here — that’s why there are so many options! YouTube and Vimeo are often a good bet, but then you don’t host the video yourself. When in doubt, I will compress with iPhone settings (H264 mov) which most players seem to read.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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It’s about compression and codecs. Different flavors of video compression require different frame sizes and, sometimes, frame rates. One of the common ways to save space is to create a file that is squished in one direction (“anamorphic” images) and then to stretch it on playback. That way they don’t have to compress so much image, but still get the HD size.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Adjustment layers only work for effects, not for transformations. You could apply the “Transform” effect (I think it is called) and apply wiggle to the position attribute. Or just nest the entire comp in a new one and give it a wiggle….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Set your scale or position keyframes as you want without the bounce, then take your the keyframe where the bounce should happen, move it forward two or three frames, and make a new keyframe that is LARGER than the last keyframe. That causes the scale or position to go too far, then pull itself back. A bouncy effect.
For more advanced methods, search around for elasticity expressions….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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If you’re going to use a tablet a lot, then go with Intuos. If you’re going to be, say, 75% mouse and 25% tablet like I do (mostly brush work in AE, then painting mattes in Photoshop, e.g.), then the Bamboo works pretty well.
Walter is dead on: there are more things that Intuos will respond to, particularly the tilt of the pen, which comes in handy for more advanced stuff. Bamboo still gives pressure response, so you can alter the size of a brush while working in AE and PS. But if you want a tablet for everything (going virtually mouseless) then the larger the better, I say….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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That plane doesn’t look like real 3D to me — rather it looks like a masked solid that’s been animated to “wipe” into the shot. Solids and masks, keyframe the position a bit to the right/left and you should be good!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I was thinking that you change it manually, actually. But don’t worry about it looking squished in quicktime player — just make sure it looks correct in the editing timeline next to the original footage. That’s what counts. Have you taken your render all the way through the process (into AE, animate, render, into editing timeline, export from editing timeline)?
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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