Benjamin Tubb
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I wasn’t aware you needed to mess with the interlacing to do stabilization… When I stabilized some MiniDV NTSC footage, I didn’t do anything but stabilize… and it was fine.
Ben Tubb
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A quicker way would be to go file>import then select your file, but next to import as: pick composition. IT usually imports it as ‘footage’. if you do ‘composition, you’ll get a comp with the layers.
Ben Tubb
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I’m just gonna elaborate a bit on the above post…
When you put footage on a DVD, it usually needs to be an MPEG2. If your file is not already in this format, Encore can convert, or ‘transcode’ it for you. I’m not sure if you’re outputting from Premiere in MPEG2, or if you’re letting Encore do it, but either way, your problem is in the transcode settings. Personally, I like to export my footage from Premiere as MPEG2, but I can’t really help you with that as I use PP2, and I can’t remember if it’s the same on 1.5.
Anyways, let’s say you bring a file into Encore. It will be sitting in the project window as an asset. You can right click it, and set the transcode settings, either by choosing a preset, or setting your own options. A few things to keep in mind:CBR (Constant Bit Rate) Generally yeilds better quality, but bigger files, as opposed to VBR (Variable Bit Rate). Also, the higher the bit-rate, the better. It’s also best to choose a higher buffer. Out of the presets, the 8MB CBR 1 pass will probably be your best bet. When choosing VBR, you get an option for either one, or two passes. Remember that transcoding to MPEG files is a compression process, and each pass further compresses the video. So the more passes you have, the smaller but uglier your file will be.
One last thing: Encore 1.0 doesn’t seem to like Quicktime files, as it forces you to transcode them right when you import. Other files let you wait until later.
Hope that helps…
Ben Tubb
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Would it work if you precomped the shatter, then collapsed transformations/continually rasterized, then just stopped the layer using time remap?
I’m not sure… It’s a bit confusing to me when there’s a 3d effect on a 2d layer, using the comp camera, and it’s precomped.
Ben Tubb
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My AE7 works fantastically. And I don’t have a super computer. My CPU is only 2.1 Ghz…
where as at school, on the editing computers with 3GB of ram to my 2, and with two Dual Core 3 Ghz CPus, running AE 6.5, they screw up all the time. (Although to be fair, they do run all the other adobe programs as well, plus AVID, and have High School students messing them up all the time.)I’m more than happy with my AE7. But then again, I did install it literally about 2 hours after I built my machine. Maybe it works because the computer is brand new? I don’t know… But none of the problems everyone talks about ever happen to me.
Ben Tubb
“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”
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This is probably something I should know. What the heck is cyclorama? I’ve never even heard of it…
Ben Tubb
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I was using Avid Xpress Pro, actually. And I don’t know ANYTHING about AVID, so I bet I was just screwing something up. But in premiere, I imported the Straight one and it would show up terribly, like it would if I just watched it in quicktime. Maybe I had some setting wrong? Meh. The premultiplied got the job done for me.
Ben Tubb
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In my experience, whenever I did shining and glowing effects on text and exported with ‘straight’ alpha, it looked horrible. The alpha just simply included all of the glows, but minus the fading of it. It worked fine when I did premultiplied… Here are my settings that worked: (Although I’ve only done this for Premiere and Avid)
Quicktime Movie
Compressor: None
Quality 100%
Millions of Colors+ (the ‘plus’ will come on when you pick RGB+Alpha)
RGB+Alpha
Premultiplied color (not straight)That’s what worked for me. Of course, I wasn’t using actual glows, they were radial blurs… and I wasn’t doing anything from illustrator.
Ben Tubb
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Ah, it seems so obvious now! Thanks so much for the quick response.
Ben Tubb
“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”
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Ah, it seems so obvious now! Thanks so much for the quick response.
Ben Tubb
“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”