Daniel Connell
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I inserted a null layer just above the footage, but it didn’t seem to have any effect at all…
What I’ve done is made a second composition and nested the first within it, so the adjustment layer is not affecting the footage, which is in the second comp layered beneath the first one. If that makes sense.
Which works well.But my problem now is, whereas in the first comp the cg layers’ alphas settle nicely into the footage, in the second comp the edges are more chunky and less feathered. I think the first comp is coming through as either straight matted or premultiplied, and whichever one it is I want the other one.
How do I change the output alpha style of a comp? I can’t interpret it like I can footage.cheers
Daniel.
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Well, looks like the best option is just keep them in dv format (going with the Sony one), and not rerender them until the final output. I’m not doing a huge amount of compositing (just putting 3d elements in and grading colours) so I should only have to render once.
I had a look at huffyuv and Microcosm but they’re still 3-4 times the size of the orginal dv.
Thanks all for the excellent feedback.
Daniel.
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Which would be very nice, and is on my wishlist. The video has to be posted tho, hence the dvds.
Daniel.
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What I’m doing is editing down the raw footage from the tapes to conserve space, saving those files to data dvds, then loading footage to my (slightly too small) harddrive, re-editing and compositing.
So I need a codec that can be saved to x number of times without losing any quality, but is still small enough that these files are going to be reasonably portable.
I’ll be keeping the tapes as backup, but don’t have constant access to a camera or deck to recapture from.
cheers
Daniel.
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But if I edit and resave ad nauseum, it still won’t lose anything?
Also, if there’s something that gets the files a bit smaller than dv avi, I don’t have a huge amount of disk space and I’m wanting to back up to data dvd.
cheers
Daniel.
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Mmmmmmmm….
O well. Not to worry, it isn’t really that bad, was just wondering if something could be done about it. I found another thread on which a guy recommends one of the Video Finesse Premiere plugins, but haven’t tried it.I’ll just live with it and see what I can do about preventing it in future.
thanks all
Daniel.
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Sorry, should’ve been more descriptive. Long white smears from pointing the camera at something too bright.
Daniel.
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> Do they have any way of importing a text-file ?
Not that I can find.
> Is their own file format text-based ?
Nope.
> When you copy keyframes in their app, can you paste in a texteditor
Not even slightly.
Gues I’m eyeballng it. O well.
Daniel.
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I’ll try it again to make sure I didn’t just get it wrong. Will report back with results.
Thanks for the help btw.
Daniel.
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Ok, that makes sense.
How then would I use this with a window that’s been opened from within a shockwave file? My site is done in Director and I want to open up extra windows with video in them, but with a close window button. Most people are quite rightly not using IE these days…
Daniel.