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Christian Mcilwain
January 28, 2008 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Can Apple’s Compressor meet DGFastchannel specs?

Craig,

Please send me the patch.

christian@fourthrulefilms.com

I’ve purchased Episode and my results with DG have been very inconsistent, to say the least. Thanks for your help!
Christian Mcilwain
January 10, 2008 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Episode help for DG Fast Channel encoding

VLC did solve my white screen problem. Thanks for your help. The strange thing is that QT played my files just fine if I compressed from a preset, without changing any settings. Change anything, though, and I got the white screen.
Christian Mcilwain
January 10, 2008 at 6:01 pm in reply to: Episode help for DG Fast Channel encoding

Thanks for the tip on QT.

DGFC is requiring 720×512.

Which preset are you using as your starting point?
Christian Mcilwain
January 10, 2008 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Episode help for DG Fast Channel encoding

I’m having the exact same problem as Mr. Varney. I just purchased episode yesterday, trying to get up to speed with DG.

I’m not getting as far as Carl, though. I’m using the setting described above. But it seems that something I’m doing is blowing everything up. When I encode from a preset, everything’s fine. But when I initiate the settings above, my encode comes out as just a white screen. Audio is fine. Video is a polar bear in a blizzard. Any thoughts? I’m not even sure which preset I should be starting with? 7mbit? I-Frames?
Christian Mcilwain
January 4, 2008 at 4:26 pm in reply to: Can I turn an Illustrator path into a shape layer?

Perfect! Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much.
Christian Mcilwain
October 17, 2007 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Crazy content troubles

Update on my own problem:

I switched from the colorize filter to color balance, maxing out the reds in the highlights and mids. This fixed the problem. After a lot of tweaking with the lights, the final result is very nice.

Still not sure why colorize didn’t work, though.
Christian Mcilwain
July 3, 2007 at 5:34 pm in reply to: flourescent light flicker

You just answered my next question. Nailed it. Looks awesome. Thanks again for your help!

Christian McIlwain
Christian Mcilwain
July 3, 2007 at 5:32 pm in reply to: flourescent light flicker

Ahhh. There it is. Thanks so much. I misunderstood the first time. That’s definitely it. Wiggling the blacks give it the organic feel I was looking for. The only drawback is the input black goes to an extreme black, making the effect a little bit more intense than I need. Is there any way to control the range?

Thanks again.
Christian Mcilwain
July 3, 2007 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Flourescent light flicker

Thanks. Wiggling the opacity worked OK. I think it’s just not quite as organic as I’d hoped. Of course, wiggling the levels may not have looked any better. Best to have just flickered the light in the first place, I guess.

Thanks again!
Christian Mcilwain
July 3, 2007 at 4:50 pm in reply to: flourescent light flicker

Well, that explains the seemingly binary outcome of what I did. There must be a workaround, though. Precomposing? A null object?

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