[Chris Wright]

1. if your version of AE doesn’t natively support vob, then you’ll first need to recode to uncompressed quicktime png avi (its 8bit only) or tiff 16 bit using another program( a free one is virtualdub mpeg2.

2. ignore the alpha channel, manually set the correct aspect ratio to 1.85:1 or 1.78(16:9)and vob’s are usually upper field with https://wwwss 3:2 reverse pulldown to become an effective framefrate of 23.976 that you can place in a 25 fps to render pal upper field. It’s about a 4% speed increase in video and audio which is what a lot of companies do. If you simply re-enterpret the file to 25fps, you’ll get horrible audio sync issues which is NOT cool.

So basically you want to go the timestretch route 23.976 to 25 fps.

1. leave interpret footage alone
2. set same fps for comp as actual footage fps (maintain non-interpolation)
3. timestretch that layer so that both audio and video get stretched simultaneously. Now in this way, the pitch does go up a microscopic bit, so you can use protools or another program to increase speed but NOT pitch if you want. No one can usually tell.

pal to ntsc 95.904095904%
btw a future note (NTSC to pal 104.2709376%)

4. place it as a precomp in new desired fps comp

Also you can use timewarp/twixtor to change framerate without changing speed, but it’s way more complicated.
as an example, I made a PAL to NTSC, so just reverse the color management and framerates 25 and 29.97 in the project. You’ll also have to manually keyframe timewarp/twixtor down to 0 or splice new layers at hard cuts or you get gloopyness.
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[Chris Wright]

actually going from a 25 fps to a 29.97 de-interlaced is hard because you’re going from 50 fields down to 29.97 frames.

A free solution is to timewarp pixel motion at 50%, precomp that then timestretch the precomp 50%. Then simply render out without any stutter.

And don’t forget to have output module set to NTSC color!

here’s an example ae cs3 aep that will fix framerate, color profiles, and size.

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[Chris Wright]

actually Zaxwerks serpentine would be perfect for this. It support 3-D fibers to shrink, move, etc, even custom caps on the ends. then you can add custom random expressions to the inertia of the fibers.

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[Chris Wright]

great job walter! you should get a kudos. unfortanately now all the editors will get layed off, lol. and to make it more organic, replace the 5 with random(2,5);

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[Chris Wright]

you don’t need to worry too much, syntheyes is incredibly easy to use, has automatic modes to solve camera tracking, remove bad data, and fix lens distortion, plus the website has tons of tutorials that cover everything you can imagine. did I mention the software is super inexpensive?

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[Chris Wright]

There was mostly 60i. 50i would look close without messing around with framerates. 24p is a film look which shows like the twilight zone had.

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[Chris Wright]

if you only import a tiff sequence, then render out a tiff sequence
then you can safely say it’s a hardware or plugin issue and not a corrupted codec issue of some sort. Best of luck.

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[Chris Wright]

This thread has all sorts of solutions for AEGP Plugin Media IO ERRORS which at least one is bound to fix your problem. It has everything from matching output, to even making your own presets from scratch. Read the whole thing and I hope you have luck.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/939829

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[Chris Wright]

twixtor has a cut box you can keyframe, but I don’t think timewarp does, and since you’re not actually moving the layers around, just splicing, nothing should move around.

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[Chris Wright]

use magnum to automatically split cuts into separate layers or do it manually. Neither timewarp or twixtor work on straight cuts, although they work on crossdissolves.

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