Cyrus Dowlatshahi
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Oh I see what you mean, Dave, sorry. Yes: if the clip WASN’T letterboxed (with black bars seen above and below), my problem would be conveniently cropped out by that overscan.
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Nicole: just tried it and it’s still there.
My guess is that it’s a bug in Motion, and I’m assuming that it stems from the fact that there’s imagery on a motion path OUTSIDE of the viewable frame area in Motion…. which is somehow leaving it’s mark. Only thing I can think of.
But if I have to transcode this thing from this to that and back to this to crop it out, I will. I’ll keep you posted…
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Alas, this issue doesn’t have anything to do with Planet Earth’s over-scanning television sets….
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The Motion project is built in NTSC DV, 720 x 480.
It looks fine viewed in 4:3 (the way it’s built), but also is fine squished into a 16:9 frame.
As far as my workflow from here, I have tried:
– Exporting to 4:3 Mpeg-2 using compressor, bringing into DVDSP.
– Exporting to 16:9 Mpeg-2 using compressor, bringing into DVDSP.
– Bringing into an FCP timeline, then doing the same.
– Bringing into an FCP timeline and dragging handles out to clip off the edges before export
– Bringing into Compressor and exporting with edges slightly (and also grossly cropped) using the Geometry panel in the Inspector.
– Praying and resubmitting these batches
– Exporting from Motion to the Animation codec, and bringing THAT into compressor for export to mpeg-2
I think that’s about it. I’m currently trying to go from Animation –> DV —> mpeg-2, hoping that somewhere along the way the distortion will become “converted to a bitmap” (if that makes sense), which will hopefully allow me to crop it out.
– A
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I’ve uploaded a screen grab.
https://fattyproductions.com/whatTheHELL.png
I know it’s subtle, but it runs along the upper edge of a letterboxed frame, so it stands out when viewed on a TV. It’s hard to see in the pic, but zoom in on the upper left.
It may not look like much, but you can definitely see it, and it’s unacceptable.
And I have no idea how to work around this one at this point…