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Floh, you beat me to the punch! Hope things are going well for you, long time no see.
Ben
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Yep. Known issue.
If you do a search on the forums there are topics on this going back to last year. Downgrade to QT 6.5 is the only current option.
Ben
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You need to check the field order twice in After Effects. Firstly, check that it is being interpreted in AE correctly, select the footage and hit Apple-F. Then check again when you render out. Make sure that Field Render is on and set to Lower Field First.
HTH
Ben
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Hi Jesse,
I think the first thing you should be asking is why do they want an AVI. Is this just for previewing the work, or will it be the final delivery format?
AVI is just a wrapper, like a QT MOV file, and there are a number of different codecs you can use, just like with Quicktime. A lot of the standard ones date back to the dark days of video encoding and are ropey at best. For a preview movie this might be acceptable. For final output the only one to use would be Uncompressed, which would result in a very large file. For 10 minutes, that would be way bigger than DVD-R could handle.
The best thing is to ask what will happen with that file after you give it to you client, so that a proper workflow can be figured out.
HTH
Ben
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Hi Michael,
If you take it into another system and you have to transcode it to a different codec than the full uncompressed Media 100HD then you may lose quality, but you should be able to do it. If you can wait for the transcode to happen!
If you have the codec installed it will read the QT file. This is why one can edit happily on a Media 100 system then send it out to a different one for effects or compression. Full disclosure: I’ve never tried this for HD material but it’s a standard workflow for my SD projects. But I don’t know why it wouldn’t work.
Also, if you’re going to a Windows machine, then do a search on the forums for problems with QT7 & the transcoder.
All the best,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Hi,
Yes. The media is just Quicktime files, so as long as the application can read QT and has the software codec installed, it will import the files.
Note that some apps cannot edit the files natively and will transcode to a different codec that it can work with. It’s best to avoid moving between lossy codecs too many times as this can degrade your image.
HTH
Ben
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Missed off an “m”, so that last line should read “transform.scale[1]”.
Oops.
Curious Turtle Professional Video
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Missed off an “m”, so that last line should read “transform.scale[1]”.
Oops.
Curious Turtle Professional Video
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Expland the expression line down, and you’ll see two lines. The [temp,temp] is an array, the first “temp”, refers to X and the second one affects Y. So just change the second value to 100 or whatever value you like.
The “temp” is stuck in there automatically when you pickwhip, so it might be a bit easier to change that to a name that you can remember when you come back to it.
If you want to keyframe the Y value later, then highlight the second array and pickwhip the Y Scale on your layer. Or type “transfor.scale[1], whichever you find easier.
HTH
Ben
Curious Turtle Professional Video
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Expland the expression line down, and you’ll see two lines. The [temp,temp] is an array, the first “temp”, refers to X and the second one affects Y. So just change the second value to 100 or whatever value you like.
The “temp” is stuck in there automatically when you pickwhip, so it might be a bit easier to change that to a name that you can remember when you come back to it.
If you want to keyframe the Y value later, then highlight the second array and pickwhip the Y Scale on your layer. Or type “transfor.scale[1], whichever you find easier.
HTH
Ben
Curious Turtle Professional Video
Training | Editing |Support