[Cynthia Develvis]

I just figured it out. I was “building” the caution tape across the screen – one stripe, then a few frames later the next, and so on, up to 12 stripes, each stripe being a separate ai file. Well, my 12 file for some reason isn’t showing the stripes, so when 11 ended, which happened to be the same frame that the psd file came in, the stripes dissappeared.

I’m still not sure why the 12 file doesn’t have the stripes (when I look at that layer is it just black), because when I open it in AI it does, but I think I can figure it out from here, and it will be easier then delving into my 3D layers when that obviously wasn’t the problem.

Thank you both for your help, and I’m sorry if I wasted your time since this problem isn’t what I thought it was at all.

[Cynthia Develvis]

Thanks for your reply… here are my results…

1) I do in fact, have 3D layers, but I’ve tried turning off their visibility and the stripes still don’t appear. So I don’t believe that is the case.

2) I have it set to Advanced Render… just for luck I tried switching to standard, but it told me I shouldn’t so I switched it back

3) I was hoping Open GL might be a fix but when I turned it off, nothing changed.

Basically, nothing helped. But I do appreciate you taking the time to respond. Any other advice? Besides probably upgrading AE? I’m just really upset by this because, stupid me, I forgot to make a duplicate of my composition/project before making changes. Unless there’s some sort of magic Autosave like in FCP that I am not aware of?

[Cynthia Develvis]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/987698#987698
The above link talks about compressor settings that might (I’m not sure, I don’t really use Motion) apply. Also, I’ve found that using the Flicker Filter can help make text edges smoother. Effects>Video Filters> Video> Flicker Filter. There’s not much tweaking that you can do, just choose between minimum and maximum.

Hope this helps!

[Cynthia Develvis]

I have been having this argument with my boss for a long time now – he doesn’t want to pay for a video monitor and expects us to magically be able to create professional video without all of the necessary instruments. So no, I do not have an NTSC monitor, however, I burnt a test DVD (through Compressor) and viewed that on a normal television, and the text was jagged.

That being said, I did do some more research through the FCP forums, and found some tips that seem to work effectively (although I’m still looking at a computer monitor). Thank you for your response, and I’ll be sure to forward it to my boss as well.

Cheers!

[Cynthia Develvis]

I’m having this exact same problem (although I see that this post is over a year old). I’m using AE 7 and FCP Studio 6. Rendering the AE files with Animation codec set on best quality, and yet the text still looks interlaced, even after I render it in FCP. Any ideas?