Burt Hazard
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How do the titles look on a broadcast PAL monitor?
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You could try this:
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I seem to remember a funny sight gag from LOVE AT STAKE in which we see an ubiquitous spinning newspaper on a black background, the camera zooms out (or we cut to a wide shot, I forget which (“witch?”)) and we see the townsfolk actually trying to read it as it spins on a verticle turntable; silly peasants! 🙂
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CHV-electronics is givin’ out a free “Towers of Film 3D” plugin for Motion and FCP that allows a unique effect: https://www.chv-plugins.com/cms/FxPlug/TowersOfFilm3D/TowersOfFilm3D.php
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Charlotte,
Mainly the deinterlacing option is there because for a most compositing operations (roto, paint, keying, etc.) using interlaced footage would be a total nightmare, if not impossible; you always need to see the fine detail of the edges. One way of looking at it is that you are temporarily working on video footage deinterlaced in any compositing app, and then rendering back out in its native interlaced form if you need to. Rendering a Flipbook basically renders the viewer into RAM (similar to an After Effects preview thing), unless you choose Render Disk Flipbook which does create a disk QT file. Usually, you do all the final rendering in the FileOut node(s).
One thing you might check right away is to select your FileIn node and make sure you click on the “Auto” button to the far right of the timeRange Global parameters…this will automatically set your Global frame range of your footage, then click the little “house” icon at the bottom right of the Shake interface to set the frame range of your timeline (it sounds like you may just be viewing the first frame of your footage ’cause the time range is only set to “1” or something). If you have further problems, I’d suggest going over to the main Shake forum here at the Cow; those guys’ll figure it out.
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And of course, as usual, it depends what you ultimately want to do. Something like Maya is expensive but it is top of the line and allows you to do most everything. Lightwave and Cinema 4D are cheaper but are good solid 3D packages. I had a free trial version of Cinema 4D (XL6 version) that they had given away in COMPUTER ARTS and 3D WORLD magazines and had found it very easy to use for the level that it is operating on, but the trial had run out. At the moment I use a (cheap!) combination of Bryce, Daz Studio, and Hexagon. Specifically I do modelling in Hexagon and import the models into Bryce for the final animations. You can’t do much modelling in Bryce itself (but there are some people who actually do some modelling in Bryce, by using the Terrain Editor, etc.). Likewise, Hexagon is purely a modeller and you can’t do final rendering in it (or character “rigging”). Although in Bryce 6 they have added the capability of importing animatible characters/creatures from Daz Studio (which comes with Bryce). Ultimately I would recommend Cinema 4D, which I’ll probably end up buying myself.
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Another good way is to actually “take apart/look under the hood” some of the included Particle and Replicator presets included in Motion (in the Inspector) to figure out how the Motion software team created some of the dazzling effects (some of it is initially counter-intuitive, it took me awhile to see how they were able to create some slick-looking abstract patterns with just simple elements).
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Sorry, that should be AUDIO POSTPRODUCTION FOR DIGITAL VIDEO!
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Also, in the future you may consider purchasing Jay Rose’s excellent book AUDIO PRODUCTION FOR DIGTITAL VIDEO which, along with a lot of good info, contains “recipes” for doing this and other audio effects and cleanup.
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Probably Photoshop with a custom brush…or you could do it the Jackson Pollock way, get tanked up on some cheap rotgut whiskey then go out into your backyard with a couple cans of paint and a white-board/piece of masonite/plywood and go to town listenin’ to some far-out beatnik jazz! 🙂