Brendan Coots
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True, we probably pay more in rent for our studio than your entire monthly overhead. And let’s not even get into the taxes and fees California levies on its business owners…
Brendan Coots
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H.264 is one of the better codecs out there, so if you’re not getting good results you may want to check your settings.
For starters, I would use these settings:
Framerate – current
keyframing – automatic
Quality – high or best
bitrate – automaticThese are pretty close to the default settings, and you should be getting very clean results. If not, post a screenshot so we can see what’s going wrong.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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I must live in a cave as well, because I know and worked with a lot of those guys and I only found out today. Such a bummer.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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I was just reading a few days ago that some people were having problems with the viewer window in After Effects, and it turned out they were using the same cracked copy floating around on torrent networks. It became pretty clear that it was the cracked version causing their problems.
If you’re using a cracked copy, you get what you pay for. If you’re NOT using a cracked copy, it’s awfully coincidental…
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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As a test, you might try reducing the length of the scrolling title comp to something like 3000px and see if that fixes the problem.
The ONLY thing I can think of is that the extreme size of the comp is throwing off the motion blur. AE has been known to occasionally exhibit odd behavior with comps above a certain physical size. I try not to go above 6000px in X or Y.
If this is the case, you may need to break your title scroll comp into multiple, shorter parented comps.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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I would also add that memory/RAM is a special case in that they have been in well documented, epic price wars etc. for almost a decade now. They’ve experienced a decline in value that I doubt many other segments are feeling quite as hard, even CPU mfrs.
That said, and recession notwithstanding, I do think that long term pricing is going to come down on virtually all components that go into everyday gadgetry. It’s just the nature of things, especially as they become so heavily commoditized.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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Hmmm, anyone know of a similar company in the San Francisco area?
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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Why would you convert it BACK to the format that is making your graphics look bad? DV is bad, end of story. If you want good quality, import the Animation codec graphics right into your edit, it should work just fine.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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I agree wholeheartedly. Buying a $50k HD deck is similar to, if not worse than, ponying up for a CineAlta camera. Why part with all that precious cash when you can rent as needed?
These days HD is a pretty fluid term depending on your client’s needs – Walter points out that he uses DVCPRO HD and HDV, my studio does just about every project in DVCPRO HD these days, and no one can really say that we don’t “do” HD. It may not be uncompressed 4:4:4, but it’s still a valid flavor of HD unless you’re a real purist.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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These are all questions you need to ask the editor straight-up.
Don’t be afraid to ask, no one will think you are incompetent – quite the opposite. The editor is the ONLY person who can answer these questions accurately since they are managing the workflow (or at least know what the workflow will be). In fact, the editor usually knows these details better than the Producer.
They should have provided you with all that info upfront, that is how it is normally done, so don’t be afraid to ask!
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com