Ben Insler
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Are you sure that you don’t have FCP set to insert a 24p pulldown on the fly so that you can view your sequence on an NTSC monitor (which is 60i)?
Ben Insler
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By twinkle, do you mean that it almost in a strange way looks like parts of the image are moving? Almost rippling even? I’ve run into this many times, although usually much more in Final Cut than AE (AE is much better at handling images). Anyway, if that’s the case, it’s because the image you’re trying to use is too high res for the screen space you’re trying to scale it into, and thus it can’t interpolate the pixels correctly (kind of like when you zoom an image in photoshop to 33.3% – it looks crappy, but we won’t don’t need to get into too much of that here…). The first step would be to create a copy of the image that’s lower res and try the move on that. You only need the image to be so large that the portion you want to finish the move on is equal to the resolution of your comp. For example, if I’m working with a 100×200 (for math simplicity sake since I’m terrible at it..) comp, and you want to zoom in from your whole image to focus on half the image, the overall image size only needs to be 200×400 (assuming that its aspect ratio is also 1:2). This way, when we zoom in to half the image, the half we ultimately see will have the same resolution as the comp and remain sharp, and hopefully the full resolution of the whole image will not be so great that the twinkle still occurs. If we wanted to zoom from the full image to 1/64 of the image, then we might have a problem. In such a case, you might have to use a blur to fix the jitter (as was suggested) or use an interlace flicker filter (which also is a type of blur)
A workaround for that might be to make 2 images, one for the first half of the zoom and one for the second. The first image would be used for the first 60% of the zoom. The second, however, would be cropped from the original so that it only contained information from 50% into the zoom to the zoom’s final positions. Make both images the same resolution, and place them in the comp so that image 1 starts at the beginning of the zoom, and image 2 starts 50% of the way into the zoom. Do moves on both of them at the same rate, and then crossfade them together between 50%-60% of the zoom. This would be tedious to get right because you’d have to exactly crop and move your second image to match up with the first zoom’s fade out, but if you got it to match up perfectly you shouldn’t notice the crossfade, but you would eliminate the outrageous resoultion that you were initially working with. It might also get tedious because you might have to do this step a few times, depending on how much you really need to zoom… but just an idea if nothing else is working.
Good luck,
Ben Insler
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Just to be sure, you’re rendering your image and text effects, right? If this is not new information then I apologize, but at the top of your timeline, there should not be anything but gray or dark blue render flags if you want to view full quality, full res playback. If these are there, make sure that you turn all your render flags ON under “Sequence:Render Selection” and “Sequence:Render All”
If that’s not the problem, please continue this post.
Best,
Ben Insler
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I have worked with other editors that have had this problem as well, and I have started to notice similar problems. When I play footage in reverse, the images squeezes to 1/2 the size of the viewer/canvas frame (it happens in both) and becomes inverted and green (as in like an old 2-tone apple IIGs monitor). It only happens when playing footage backwards. Trashed prefs – didn’t help. Could these problems be related?
Ben Insler
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I don’t think so. The timecode you’re seeing is a display of the TC on the tape – it is not video footage in any way (the same way your audio monitors aren’t recorded as video footage). I believe you’d have to put in a TC burn in post and re-record do what you suggested, set the display to run out of your composite display and make a dub that way.
Best,
Ben Insler
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Nothing..it’s just sweet!
Well, i guess if you could use the touchscreen with AE you’d be able to work a lot faster… That’d be nice!
Ben Insler
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Do you have any expressions in your project? If you do, it sounds to me like there’s a value that an expression is evaluating to that is not a possibility for the variable the expression is creating.
Also, put your timeline playhead on the frame that keeps crashing? Does that bring up the same error? If it does, it means that there’s definately something wrong in the way your animation/expression/etc. is being evaluated, not in your render process itself.
Best,
Ben Insler
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Do you have any expressions in your project? If you do, it sounds to me like there’s a value that an expression is evaluating to that is not a possibility for the variable the expression is creating.
Also, put your timeline playhead on the frame that keeps crashing? Does that bring up the same error? If it does, it means that there’s definately something wrong in the way your animation/expression/etc. is being evaluated, not in your render process itself.
Best,
Ben Insler
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You could make a new comp filled with a white solid, and then paint black strokes over that white solid until the frame is totally black (the black strokes are your eraser), and then apply that new comp to your footage as an alpha channel. I not farmiliar with the eraser, so I’m not sure about the eraser itself, but this should work.
Best,
Ben Insler
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Your capture preset may not be set to the DV/DVCPRO NTSC preset. Check that.
Ben Insler
Editor
Telemark Films