Curious Turtle
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I’m having difficulty picturing your problem exactly. How is your timeline laid out?
One thing to try, as you say you’re getting a line where FG & BG meet, is to set the Blend Mode of the FG to Alpha Add. Hopefully this will take away that alpha seam.
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There are several ways to do this. But this looks like a simple Fractal Noise used as a luma track matte. Blur it, then keyframe a Levels effect on the Noise layer to achieve the fade.
Good luck with your project,
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If the camera is a DVD-type, you may find it easier to use something like MPEG Streamclip to rip the footage into a more useable codec.
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In the DVD player settings there’s often a place where you can tell it what sort of TV you’re using, either 16:9 or 4:3. If it’s 4:3, then there should be a way of telling it how to handle 16:9 flagged discs on that screen.
If there’s not, then there really isn’t much you can do about it, apart from get a new DVD player!
Bearer of bad news?
Ben
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Why not just create it in Photoshop, and overlay it in Premier? That would be the easiest solution for you.
Or even just export out a single frame in After Effects, if you don’t have Photoshop. Save yourself the rendering time :o)
All the best,
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Hi Andrew
You don’t say what you’ve authored this with. Check that the track is set to 16:9 Letterbox, if you are using DVD Studio Pro.
Other than that, check that no-one has monkeyed around with the settings on the DVD player, and that that is set up correctly. “It used to work” in a multi-user environment is asking for trouble in my experience :o) Some things you can’t control.
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Choose a lossless codec, such as Animation set to 100%.
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You could turn the solo button on to the track you want and render that out.
Check that in your Render Settings module the “Solo Switches” setting is at “Current Settings”.
Also, be aware that you can’t just click a solo button, add the comp to the render queue, solo another layer and add that to the render queue. You’ll just end up with two copies of the last layer you soloed.
You could even just copy/paste each layer into a comp on its own. That way you won’t have to nurse the render queue so much. You might even be able to automate this with scripting.
If you haven’t got too many layers, I’d go the copy/paste route.
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It depends what you mean by “secondary cc”. I’m not in front of my Final Cut system, but I don’t recall any sort of “Limit Effect” in the 3-way colour corrector.
If you mean the ability to correct shadows, mids and highlights separately then practice with the Levels and Curves effects. This is still classed as primary colour correction as you’re affecting the image globally.
Alternatively, you could use the Color Finesse plug-in that came bundled with After Effects. That offers the 3-way corrector that you’re familiar with, plus proper secondary correction that lets you apply corrections to certain areas and ranges of colours.
Or, if you want it really simple I’m going to shamelessly plug Film Wash Color Effects for After Effects. A series of filter presets that will give you a completely different feel to your footage.
All the best,
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Hi Nick,
You need to choose a codec that can contain an alpha channel.
If you’re exporting AVI files, I’m assuming that you’re on a Windows machine. In that case, choose AVI – Directshow > Uncompressed 32-bit. That’s 8-bits per colour channel, plus an 8-bit alpha.
If you can use Quicktime movies in your editing system, then go for something like the Animation codec. Make sure you set the colour depth to Millions of Colours+. So that’s millions of colours plus an alpha channel.
Good luck with your project.
Ben
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