[Christian Neil]

I concur with Kyle’s suggestion. If you go to Artbeats, they email you a free piece of stock footage each month. The libraries themselves can be a bit pricy if you’re on a tight budget, but they are a one-time expense.

Digital juice sends out a daily newsletter, and they have daily specials. Check out the section entitled “Jumpbacks”, and check out what they have to offer. Today’s newsletter had six collections (about 20 clips each) for 9.95 each, and that is also a one-time expense.

You can also create your own in AE, and they’ll cost you nothing 🙂

[Christian Neil]

We finally managed to solve the problem. One of my editors encoded in Canopis and used Encore for the authoring (both programs that I have yet to learn), and that seemed to solve the problem.

I just wanted to report back in and say the problem is solved, and I greatly appreciate the help.

Now on to deal with the next problem, which I’m sure is scheduled immediately. 🙂

[Christian Neil]

I haven’t been compressing down before burning the disk…I’ve just been burning the uncompressed avi file, and that might be the problem. Nerovision Express is a very low-end product, and that could be the problem also, particularly with a large file. So far, everything I’ve burned with Nero works fine, but nothing feature length.

I will try what you suggest and report on the results.

Thanks for the help!

Chris

[Christian Neil]

The fact that I have the same problem with animating a PSD object of the same material leads me to concur that it’s not a vector calculation issue.

I’m rendering as an uncompressed avi file, and haven’t tried rendering anything at a lower resolution. I might try that this evening and see if it makes a difference.

Is there an advantage to rendering as a Quicktime file? I work mostly on PCs (by circumstances, not choice), and usually work with avi files. I’ve done similar credits before, albeit in shorter format, and have never had this problem before.

[Christian Neil]

It’s smooth.

*Still scratching head*

[Christian Neil]

Anti aliasing? I remember doing that in flash, but I don’t know where to find that.

I did check my output settings and went with the best quality, but after render there is a marked difference in the sharpness of the image, and I’m rendering uncompressed.