[Chris Cummings]

Thanks again for the info Craig – we’ll do some research on data rates for our clients, and I’ll look into the Vimeo and WMV HD options.

Cheers,
~Chris

[Chris Cummings]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the reply. This would be for the modern corporate PC crowd, so I’m not sure what a safe data rate would be, but would assume our audience would have fairly decent computers/connection speeds.

I just saw a piece on Vimeo the other day, but this would be something we sell. I’m halving the image size to 640 x 360. Luckily, it’s mostly talking heads (a training video), so not a lot of motion, etc. to contend with.

I don’t have Flip4Mac yet, but tried the demo on a quick client piece and even with the highest settings it was pretty ugly. I know you have to expect that, but I was hoping with full HD that this would improve compression.

I’m wondering if we should just try to hire this out and leave it to the experts who can also do multiple formats. Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations in the LA area?

Cheers,
~Chris

[Chris Cummings]

Hi Randy,

The Foundry were great, but couldn’t recreate it and weren’t sure what was causing it. My solution (not great, but it works) was to render the file out twice. The glitches are random, so I stack the clips and when I see a glitch, I chop out the top frame and the one beneath is clear (only came across one instance where it gliched on the same frame).

Hope this helps,
~C

[Chris Cummings]

sent the file to Maxon; it’s a bug in both Mac and Win…the current beta for the new version fixes it…don’t have more info yet.

[Chris Cummings]

Hi Simon, thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it’s happening with every codec I’ve tried (at least five now). I’m calling Maxon support as they are open now…

Cheers,
~C

[Chris Cummings]

Damn, didn’t hold up. Tried a longer render and the glitches are back. I have a 560k compressed QT movie of this and/or a still if anyone has any thoughts and/or would like to see it.

The Foundry have been great, but it takes awhile to hear back from the UK and they have more questions. I’ll post back with updates just in case it will ever help anyone else if they encounter this.

Cheers,
~Chris

[Chris Cummings]

I may have figured it out…this is my first time keying greenscreen – I had the replace color set to source. I just tested a render after noticing that the colored dots in the image glitches were close to this color. This was a small test, but so far no glitches after I set this to “soft”.

[Chris Cummings]

Thanks so much for clearing this up Brendan, I truly appreciate it!

In the greenscreen keys, I was experiencing noise in the narrator’s hair and face. Took reading the Keylight manual, multiple cow threads, and lots of tweaking and tests, but think I finally got it solved for the most part. As you said, I didn’t notice any real difference shifting between 32 and 16, but going to 8 bit was huge (completely ruined the key settings). It’s still taking hours to render the first clip which is 25 seconds – guess it’s time to get Nucleo Pro!

Cheers,
~Chris

[Chris Cummings]

Good thoughts – thanks again for your help and advice Darby 🙂

Best wishes,
~Chris

[Chris Cummings]

Forgot to add, for the “export”, I just media managed the SD version of the timeline with handles and gave it to him on a hard drive as he’s on Final Cut as well (but using ProTools and/or Digital Performer for the audio mix).