Conrad Olson
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Can’t you just change the extension name once it has rendered?
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That’s not an effect, it’s just a focus pull on the camera. You can try to recreate it in AE but it will never look quite the same as shooting it for real.
There is a depth of field plug in called Frischluft that does a nice job of defocusing https://www.frischluft.com/lenscare/index.php
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You don’t need luck and it will certainly be posible to rotoscope the person sucessfully. It might not be easy but it is defintely possible.
It well take some time to do it properly. Just don’t let the negative post above put you off.
If Hollywood decided to reshoot everything that might be a little bit tricky to rotoscope then they would never get a movie finished.
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You have the pixel aspect ratio correction turned on. This will show you the image in the correct aspect ratio but it makes it look rough.
PAL footage uses non-square pixels. When viewed on a TV each pixel is wider than it is tall. If you view those pixels on a computer monitor, which uses square pixels, you image will look slightly squashed width ways. This is ok becasue the pixels haven’t actually changed, just how they are being displayed. The pixel aspect ratio correction feature in AE and Photoshop stretches the image back out to simulate how it will look on a TV, but it does a rough job of it.
I would never work with it switched on, just toggle it on to check things then switch it off again. To switch it off click the icon that has the square with the double ended arrow above (to the right of the drop down that says ‘1 view’).
This will show you the raw pixels.
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The render will be identical, it will just probably take longer.
You just need to make sure you have the same plug-ins and fonts installed on both machines.
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You can install Tinker Tool which lets you customise all sorts of things in OSX. There is an option in there called Don’t Create hidden .DS_Store files over a network Connection.
I think it just changes hidden settings in the system so I don’t think it runs all of the time.
https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
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Glad I could be of use.
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If you have been asked to deliver a 16:9 FHA version your client is probably expecting a standard definition delivery, not an HD delivery. FHA (Full Height Anamorphic) is the term used to describe the squeeze applied to 16:9 footage to fit it into the 4:3 standard definition frame. Becasue HD is 16:9 natively there is no need for FHA in HD.
If you have produced your whole After Effects project in 16:9 HD the easiest way to convert it into PAL 16:9 FHA is to create a new composition using the PAL D1/DV Widescreen preset, then drag your HD comp (or render) into the new sequence and scale it down to fit the comp (or used the fit to comp command). If the interpertation of your HD stuff is correct then is should look fine in the SD comp.
You should be able to render a progressive piece out without having to switch on the field order. SD PAL can deal with progressive clips, it basically splits the progressive image over both fields.
I don’t think there are any HD music channels in the UK yet.
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Welcome to the world of roto-scoping. There is no plug-in or feature that does what you want automatically. There are techniques to speed up the manual process it is still manual.
I don’t have to do it very often but when I do I usually adjust the mask every 5 or 10 frames, then go back to see if After Effects tweens the make correctly in between, if not I had more keyframes.
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Hi Daniel,
Well after two days of messing around with the DivX Converter, ffmpegX, MPEG Steamclip etc. I tried the trial of Episode. To start with it didn’t seem to have the options I needed but then I saw the VBV setting. According to the Episode manual it seems that even when you set an encoder to encode something at CBR the bit rate will still vary but as long as the rate over 5 seconds averages to your target then it counts as CBR. This VBV setting allowed me to change the time over which it averages the bitrate and by setting it to zero the bit rate varies much less so I get rid of the big peaks.
I’m surprised that I couldn’t find that setting in any of the other applications. Maybe if I’d learnt how to use mencoder from the command line I could have figured it out. I’m gad I had an reason to convince my boss to get Episode though. It seems like a pretty cool app.
I do have one question. I’m encoding these files using one of the MPEG4 templates. There doesn’t seem to be a Divx or Xvid option in Episode. Is it possible? And what are the differences between Xvid and MPEG4?