Brian Kayfitz
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Nevermind this post, I figured out what to do.
Brian Kayfitz
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why don’t you try to make a pre-comp duplicate of your 3D Objects and then use the pre-comp as a track matte. Only the object you want to go infront of the stroke should go in the precomp.
Brian Kayfitz
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This might not be the answer you are looking for (since I’m since I’m currently in the same situation) but you might want to look at some of the post-grad programs offered at Senaca or Humber College. I think you can take one off courses there instead of applying to a program…but I’m really not sure. It would probably not be a bad idea to check out their websites.
Good luck and let me know if you find anything
Brian Kayfitz
High Definition Authoring
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Ideally, if you don’t want to use any specific codec. By that I mean, choose something lossless. Every time you render your video out through FCP, AE or any other program using any lossy codec you are going to loose generations and you final output will be affect. The only time you should compress your video is when you are preparing it for your final delivery (such as DVD, Betacam, etc.)
So when you are rendering from AE, make sure you set all your settings to lossless and double check that you have no codec selected. This will take up more hard drive space but it is preferable to losing three generations before final delivery. The only thing you need to watch is your fields. If you footage is progressive then you have nothing to worry about but if you are working with interlaced footage makes sure your field settings are correct.
NTSC – lower fields first
PAL – upper fields first
HD – upper fields firstFinally, if you are still have problems with loosing quality during renders, why not just output a still sequences (ideally a TIF sequence) and then let your NLE do the rest of the work.
Brian Kayfitz
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Thanks, that works quite well actually. Unfortunately, my client decided that he did not want Page Roll, but I guess I keep that technique for some future project.
Brian Kayfitz
High Definition Authoring
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You might want to look at Trapcode Particular, a 3D particle generator. There are a couple presets for generating starfields that work in AE’s 3D space. You can find out more at Trapcode’s website – http://www.trapcode.com
Brian Kayfitz
High Definition Authoring
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Hello,
If you are going to author a DVD video, you are going to want to encode you final render at a Standard Definition resolution (720×480) or (720×486) should do it if you are going to use an NTSC monitor. DVD is not a High Definition format so in order to author your video at its native resolution you are going to have to look at either Blu-Ray or HD DVD. Both of these options are currently prohibitively expensive and neither format is rather common at this moment.
When you render your comp from AE, I would recommend that you render it as a lossless AVI. This is going to create a huge file since you’re using 720p so be prepared to have the Hard Drive space. Then you are going to want to take your video to import into a DVD encoder program. I believe Adobe Encore has encoding abilities, so you are going to have to research that on your own since I’ve never personally used the program. If you are interested in something a little bit more powerful then the best option is Sonic Scenarist. Scenarist is a professional authoring suite that gives you full access to DVD architecture, but it is also not exactly cheep nor is it simple to use. You might also want to look at Tmpeg. This is an mpeg encoding program that should also do the trick. You have to encode your video used the MPEG-2 codec if you want it to properly run on an SD DVD.
Best of luck.
Brian Kayfitz
High Definition Authoring
http://www.infinitehd.com