Colin Williams
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You’re right. Sorry about that. Apologies.
When I was working in After Effects (6.5), the artwork had a black background that I missed. (Yes, I know, elementary mistake. I was in a rush.) The reason I missed it was because I set the background color in AE to black while working and realised I needed to remove the black layer and re-render the QT file.
After doing so, I re-imported into FCP and everything worked fine.
A quick note: In the AE render settings, I set the Alpha Channel to premultiplied. After placing the Quicktime file in the FCP timeline the channel looked a bit jagged. So I set the Alpha Type in the ‘Modify’ menu to ‘Black’ and the result yielded cleaner edges on the alpha channel. Not sure why, but it worked.
Thanks for the suggestion on reporting my findings.
Hope this can be of help to someone.
Cheers,
Colin Williams
Pensive Crow(2) G5 dual 2.5, 1.5G RAM, FCP 5, (2) Decklink SP, Sorenson Squeeze 4.1, (2) Beta SP UVW 1800, DVCAM DSR 25, PCM-R300, BVM-1910 HR, After Effects 6.5, Studio 8, etc.
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Taken care of. Thanks.
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Am I required to update to Tiger OS if I want to run FCP 5 with the Blackmagic drivers?
Dilemma here.
Thanks,
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Installing the new drivers to see if that helps…
Stay Tuned!
Thanks!
Colin Williams
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Considering that I’m going to be working with these incredibly high res scans, I guess I could also reduce the resolution all together depending on how close I zoom in the camera. And I plan on panning across as well.
I rotoscoped out foreground elements of the scanned paintings and cloned in the backgound and am trying to create a 2.5D travel space. But just importing these images into AE is extremly taxing on my box.
I’m just frustrated. As expansive as AE can be, there should be a way to accelerate it somehow. Programmers….listen up!
Cheers,
Colin
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I understand that the i/o cards are strictly that, but they tout how you can RAM preview in real-time. Do they mean just as an output signal from the card to a monitor such as component, sdi etc.?
I guess I was misled by that feature declaration.
Are you talking about the ICE card by Media 100?
Colin
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Very nice. What format was the movie file when you imported it into the Flash encoder?
Did you use FCP?
Colin Williams
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Thanks for your test. I went as far as trashing some of my source files that were in the sequence. My sequence was only a minute long. I’m wondering if something is corrupted in that particular project file that was initiated by the QT 7 install? Any other findings or possibilities?
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JC,
As far as I know, the TS file is strictly formatted for DVD playback. There may be some crazy software out there that can convert it, but I’ve tried the same thing and came up empty-handed. See if you can create a disk image from Disk Utility and import the contents directly into FCP (assuming that is what you’re using as an NLE), but audio may be another issue. Unless you can find some “Ripping” software. That’s always a gamble and can get messy depending on the length (filesize).
Hope this helps any.
Cheers,
Colin Williams
https://www.pensivecrow.com