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Does anyone know if Apple’s Intermediate Codec would work on a PC?
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Well, I already knew that my PC doesn’t have the right codec (HDV 1080i60). I’ve also searched for it but without success. But it seems weird that Apple would not provide this codec for PC users to manipulate FCP stuff in After Effects. Or is this something that Sony would provide?
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How weird. I just posted nearly the exact same question, except my footage is HDV. Is yours?
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you guys are so funny. 24 fps may have originated as a cost-cutting measure, but at this point it’s become part of the language of cinema. it’s all about context, all about what signals you want to send to your viewer. want to send the signal that what they are viewing is to be read as cinema? use 24 fps (film or digital). want to let them know to shift into the tv-show/documentary/reality-show watching gear? use higher frame rates. it’s kind of like choosing what music to use; it just sets the mood/stage for the content.
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Hi Splineman,
How extremely large are you talking about? I just scaled some Arial text up to 33,000% without any problems. Perhaps you’re using an older, bitmap-based font? -
Hi Shroomly,
I’m not sure what you mean by “giving it a setting is a skin”, but…
There are some plugins for AE that let you insert 3D shapes (like spheres) into your AE comp. You can apply a texture to those shapes, and in your case, that texture might be a road that loops around the sphere. Then you just animate the rotation of the sphere (within that plugin.)
But if you don’t have those plugins, you might be able to use a bulge or mesh effect on your road animation to make the animation appear bulged outwards like a sphere.
Might be better ways…
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Have you tried rendering out to an image sequence? Not sure about your case, but we tend to work in 23.976p and find that that’s presently an idiosyncratic framerate for going back and forth between Avid and AE using single Quicktime files. Rendering out to an image sequence (we use PNGs) usually works out the best for us, since it makes the render framerate-independent.
Not sure if it would fix your 1-pixel up and down problem, though.