[Bob Root]

Hey Dave,

Thanks so much for your help!

My (Smoke) system is actually set up with a TriSync of 59.94 for any and all HD projects. There’s definitely something going on there.

Thinking back on earlier projects, I’ve had some interlacing issues bringing in HD movies from AE. A lot of the time we resolve by just going with progressive.

I’ll give you a shout out when I figure this thing out… definitely a lot closer now.

It seems a bit of anomaly (or maybe just a brain-fart) on my end. I’ll know better in the morning.

Thanks and regards,

Bob

[Bob Root]

The one .mov (animation codec) I have is upper fields and interpreted as such.

The client is looking for 1080i deliverable.

I’d like nothing more than to do the progressive workaround though (:

[Bob Root]

Forgot to mention that this is all graphics… no camera.

[Bob Root]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the quick response.

Everything is interpreted as upper field first.

The odd thing is that the keyframed text layer shows all the signs of reverse field dominance when viewed on the HD monitor.

As I said, it does correct itself when rendered lower fields

Thought I was an intermediate user but this one has really thrown me for a loop.

Forgot to mention that this is CS3 (maybe a bug?).

Bob

[Bob Root]

All set here.

Doing it with shape layers in AE.

Thanks,

Bob

[Bob Root]

Turn on the “pan behind” tool in your toolbar. This will enable you to move just the anchor point.

You’ll find the tool just to the left of your rectangle tool (or one of the other marquis depending on the last one used).

Hope this is what you’re looking for.

Bob

[Bob Root]

There’s a little diamond between the previous and next keyframe buttons (to the far left of your layer properties in the timeline).

Just click on it to create keyframes at your current position in the timeline.

You’ll need to have at least one keyframe on your layer property in order to see the add keyframe button.

[Bob Root]

Here’s a link from the Adobe documents that should help…..

https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS22BD9B45-A813-4b13-996D-A4561D108A8C.html

[Bob Root]

Seems like you didn’t take the time to read (or even try out) Ted’s entire response before responding back.

Read again (following his instructions) and you’ll see that you can easily create image sequences out of After Effects.

[Bob Root]

On your top layer, set three opacity keyframes.

The first one should be a value of “0” at time 0 in you timeline. Goto 4 frames and change the value to “100”. Goto 8 frames and change the value back to “0”.

Now change your keyframe interpolation to “hold” for these 3 keyframes.

[option] or [alt] click on the opacity stopwatch to open expressions for your top layer.

Paste the following line as your expression.

loopOut(type=”cycle”)

This will loop the opacity keyframes you have entered for your top layer.

Hope this helps.

Bob