[Chris Walter]

Hi again Walter,

Thanks again for your response, I don’t know but it may be worth mentioning that I’ve actually altered a massive image’s scale, position and transformed its x, y, z (after making it a 3D layer of course) to achieve the panning and zooming (as opposed to using a camera and animating that (Probably the total wrong way of achieving what I’ve done…)).

Also I turned on motion blur (on the layers and the comp) but I didn’t realise you can alter the intensity of the motion blur. I will do some research into that.

Here’s another file (I up’ed both the frame rate to 29.97fps and added motion blur.)

–> 5202_comp1129.97fpswithmotionblur.mp4.zip

[Chris Walter]

Also Walter,

I have just tried the same video with various different settings such as 24 fps with motion blur, and 29.97 fps with and without motion blur and to be honest, I’m struggling to see any difference? The text seems to go choppy I agree but I’m not sure what to do about this…

I think my colleagues were relatively happy with the test video in the first place but I am a bit of a perfectionist and as I have said before I dread the thought of making the whole video and then it not looking good…

Perhaps its just my untrained eye but I don’t know…

Again,

Many Thanks for your help.

Chris Walter

[Chris Walter]

Hello Again,

Walter, thank you for your help, you’ve really helped me understand a few basics which I was struggling with (even though there are so many resources online). Many thanks for taking the time to view the video test I uploaded.

You say about the objects in the video stuttering/juddering/strobe-ing a bit. I am going to try what you suggested.

One question regarding this your suggestions though; Is it worth going with one or the other (24 fps and adding motion blur OR rendering at 29.97) or would I be better off going the whole way and increasing the fps and adding motion blur. e.g. 29.97 FPS with motion blur?

As for your other suggestions, I think I will go with 1920 x 1080 as you suggested and also I think we have decided to go with your suggestion of a Vimeo PRO as I can see this saving a lot of time and headaches later on, especially in terms of finding a video player that works across all browsers, supports html5 and is compatible with users viewing our site and video with mobile devices (10% of monthly users so my colleague tells me) – Vimeo’s embedded player does all these things.

Many thanks for all your help.

Chris Walter

[Chris Walter]

Thanks again for your answers guys.

Very helpful indeed…

Walter, will 24 fps cause me issue do you think then as I will be doing some relatively quick panning but only over static images not actual footage.

One of the team in my office has since thrown into the mix his concerns about file sizes / loading times so now I’m considering 720 HD as suggested by himself. I obviously want to get the best of everything and feel like I need to make my decisions as well as size my images accordingly before I begin the creation of the video (which is long over-do to be honest).

Has anyone got any straight up answer to what I should use. Surely 1080 and 720 won’t be that different on a computer screen? Its relatively unlikely that most of our end users who will be viewing the video have some huge resolution monitors, although some may.

My criteria are as follows (again apologies for the simplicity of my descriptions):

Needs to load fast (so relatively small file size, also I don’t think we will be uploading it (although we may) it is more likely we will host it on our own website).

Needs to look crisp (no pixelation of image or text)

Needs to be fluid, as little juddering as possible (none if I can help it)

Needs to be HD (1080 x 1920 or 720 x 1080? Are these both HD? From my research I believe they are)

I don’t know if this will help at all but I have included a short test clip (6 seconds long – 1920 x 1080)…

Im looking for a balance to be honest.

Any more advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I really need to get going on this but don’t want to arrive at the end to find that it is 50000 GB or hideously pixelated or something like that…

Also thanks to everyone who has commented on my posts, your advice has been very helpful, clear, concise and relatively easy for a beginner like myself to understand.

Thanks Again

Chris

P.S. – Here’s a link with a test video in it. Some more info is on the video thread!

5178_comp1.mp4.zip

[Chris Walter]

Hello,

Many thanks to you John Cuevas, that has put my mind at ease somewhat… I will work at the highest and then downsize if need be at the end.

Have you got any recommendations for frame rates for the web? Or will 24 fps suffice? As i previously mentioned, the video will be made completely of static elements, does this make a difference?

Once again, Thanks very much for your input, brilliant to get a fast and concise answer!

Chris

[Chris Walter]

Many thanks for the quick and helpful replies guys.

I’m not sure I still understand totally though…

I think I will continue to use After Effects as I’m finding it much easier than I ever did Flash. Any tips on up scaling my current screenshots to achieve the best results. As they are an online website builder their is a fair amount of text and stuff (images / buttons) which I want to reserve the clarity of.

The screenshots are not actually screenshots but working PSD’s would it be worth importing the layers and linking them all to a parent element? This is purely a shot in the dark as I’m new to this… Would that perhaps help in zooming in and out? The PSD’s I have to work with are currently 1320 x 1148 but I can extend the horizontals as it will eventually be live on the web so it is more a case of extending the background layers than anything…

Also has anyone any advice as to what After Effects present would be best to use for this kind of project? I assumed 1920 x 1080 with 24 fps?

Anymore suggestions would be great and again thanks to you two guys that replied so quickly…

Many Thanks

Chris