[Chris Wright]

set effect-stylize-mosaic at 1000 horizontal and 1000 vertical with sharp color on.

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[Chris Wright]

did you edit the whole thing and export 30fps?

1. leave interpret footage alone at 30fps fields off(if rendered that way)
2. place 30fps into new comp set same fps for comp as actual footage fps (maintain non-interpolation)
3. timestretch 101.001001% that layer so that both audio and video get stretched simultaneously to 29.97

If that’s the case, the audio was edited to sync at 30fps so you’ll need to drop the 30fps comp into another comp at 29.97 (NTSC DV preset (720×480, PAR 0.91)NOT D1!)) with timestretch on(which will change both the video and audio) at 101.001001% then right click, fit to width will have slight black on top and bottom.

then render out lower field uncompressed or import ae comp into encore. set encore at .91 par, not widescreen, not square, but .91 par.

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[Chris Wright]

where the heck did you get 30fps? You probably wanted 29.97. interlaced? check AE’s interpret footage and make sure lower or upper is set correctly as 29.97; it should work better for your render out to lower field and actually be the correct speed now. You may have noticed you lost audio/video sync when you slowed down the video 1%.

As for the resizing, you can try the demo of instant hd and compare it to AE and even try AE’s built in unsharp which can restore some of the softness of resizing.

and there’s a much easier way to make legal broadcast signals. apply an adjustment layer and color finesse with smart limiter on which will fix the luma and chroma. Levels don’t fix chroma, only luma. Did you use color management with SDTV NTSC .601 with a calibrated monitor? If not, you’ll get a random color look on the big screen.

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[Chris Wright]

do you want it widescreen or fullscreen? cropped? letterboxed? dvd is 720×480 lowerfield for ntsc. use red giant’s resizer will give better quality than AE’s resize. 23.976? then add 3:2 pulldown https://wwwss. 29.97i? d1 is 486 not 480 dvd. widescreen is 1.2 aspect ratio.
burn a 8-9Mpbs CBR dvd-r not dvd+r. this gives less skipping than VBR and dvd-r is more compatible than dvd+r. dvd-9(dual layer) is good if you can afford it and is the same file size and quality of feature films if you have a 2+hr submission.

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[Chris Wright]

is output module set at are you using h709 or 709 235?
did you fix your interpretations for prores in AE with the funky text file edit?

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[Chris Wright]

take any particle engine and add cc vector blur…done.

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[Chris Wright]

it comes with AE

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[Chris Wright]

timewarp’s whole frame and timestretch(with pixel motion off) are exactly the same thing. there’s no loss in quality and it’s fully reversible. it’s simply a change of speed of the frames being played back.

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[Chris Wright]

you can make things look more like steel with this method. it uses colorama to create a grey shift in saturation, then blends with hard light. it also has random light and glows which furthur sell the steel look. I think andrew kramer has some steel tricks in his sleeve’s tutorials, but I like my version.

ae cs3 aep
https://www.mediafire.com/?9m3afa3zihu4ipy

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[Chris Wright]

precomps and original layers act exactly the same when timestretched.

you can 50% timestretch(or timewarp’s whole frames) a precomp, then 200% timestretch the comp to get exactly the same speed with zero loss in pixel quality. it’s only not true if you use timewarp’s frame blending or pixel because they are lossy functions.

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