[Chris Craig]

As soon as i posted, I then thought of a solution.

Rendering as low res image sequence files will help, as it will stop rendering when it reaches the corrupt frame.

[Chris Craig]

Thanks Joe.

One of my very first DVD jobs back in 2005 was a series of 5 DVDs and 200 of each for a karate series i had filmed. My client had presold 82 series’ and I had a reputable company burn these discs. 50% of them failed to play on his customers DVD players. Not wanting to upset my client anymore, i instead paid out of my own pocket for this series to be replicated and upon their return, played flawlessly in each DVD player.

I understand from that experience that commercial dvds (single layer or dual layer) will play fine, but i always fear another mishap from self burned dvds. Having never burned a dual layer from Encore, I wanted to make sure that people like yourself, have had good success

Thanks a lot

[Chris Craig]

Thanks for your response. My machine is capable of DL burning.

Of particular interest is in the ability of these DL discs to play on a variety of dvd players? I would hate to give it to a client and learn that it wont work.

Thanks again for your feedback

[Chris Craig]

Anybody?

I’m after successful occurrences as these forums are generally for people who have problems.

Thanks

[Chris Craig]

I should have also mentioned that I am using particular parented to a null with a wiggle expression attached to it for the vertical motion. Its giving me some “ok” results but wanted to see if there was another way perhaps with a sin expression.

Thanks a lot

[Chris Craig]

Thank you so much Xavier.

I have tried this and am coming across a slight issue. The Pace value that this expression is converting from, is a random expression on a separate layer. I thought i would be able to pick whip the “source text” of this layer and plug it in to your expression, but it appears that I can not not do that.

Would you know how i can get the expressed value of another layer and plug it into your expression?

Thanks again for your help in this.

[Chris Craig]

Thanks Xavier for your reply.

Would this be the full expression or just the decimal to seconds? I have pasted what you have given me, but as Im rusty with expressions, Im not sure how to write the entire expression.

Thanks a lot

[Chris Craig]

Thanks a lot Kevin

I applied your code, but it returns a syntax error in line 10.

Am i doing something wrong. I have AE cc

Yes, the time does start at zero.

Thanks a lot.

[Chris Craig]

Beautiful. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you very much Dan. It works perfectly.

[Chris Craig]

Hi Dan

For the fades, lets start with 150 pixels either side of the final positions:

Circle 1: 0,568
Fade out/in: -150, 568

Circle 2: -640,568
Fade in/out: -790,568
Fade in/out: -490, 568

Circle 3: -1280, 568
Fade in/out: -1130,568
Fade in/out: -1430, 568

I can amend the expression with further circle co-ordinates.

Thanks very much Dan