[David Bogie]

> Why is the rendered footage flickering around the shadows?< You'd need to tell us exactly what you mean by "flickering." Is this a field issue? Are you watching interlaced footage on a progressive monitor? bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Yar, saw the same post over at adobe.com.
Answered there.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Some helpful links. My usual response to subtitle and captioning posts:

https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php
https://www.ccaption.com/nccwork.shtml
https://www.robson.org/capfaq/
https://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers/resources/documents/ForeignLanguageSubtitlingGuidelinesJan06.pdf

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Troubleshooting and debugging a startup disk can take several days of screwing around.
If the info on the drive is important, run to CompUSA and purchase Disk Warrior, Symantec, and one or two other drive/OS repair applications. They all do things slightly differently and look at different aspects of the OS drive.
While you’re there, purchase an external FW drive that is about twice the size of your startup drive. You will need this as the location to which you will attempt to copy/clone/rebuild your startup drive.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Try not to take this personally:
Using a still camera is probably the best bet for a beginner. However, stop motion animation is much more complicated than you imagine, judging from your post.

Get a couple of books.
Hit youtube and watch a few dozen stop motion samples. You will see hundreds of terrible clips and, if you know what to look for, it’s easy to see what they have done incorrectly. Several youtubers have posted many of their animation practice pieces and they are learning nothing from their mistakes and they heed none of the advice they have received.

Don’t be a dweeb. Animation is hard, really hard.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

[BobP] “Do you guys know of any resource that can tell us what the installed base is like out there? Kind of a census…
Bob
“

The only figure that isn’t a lie is Adobe’s: Everyone has Flash. Everyone.

Encoding for Flash is not a cakewalk, though. There are many products to do the job. google flash encoder. Get the free trial versions, try to figure out what roduct you want to use. Some will drop into QT, some are stand-alones, some enhance Adobe’s Flash own encoder products.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

[walter biscardi] “And see our local CompUSA is completely useless. The Apple “expert” doesn’t even have a clue how a Mac works,”

Our local CompUSA has an actual Apple employee! The Macintosh section is subject to the whims of the Evil CompUSA Corporate Structure but if I’m going to spend money on Macs, it usually gets spent at CompUSA>

We have a dedicated Macintosh reseller here in Boise.
Ugh.
Won’t go near the place, note even on a dare.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

I would rethink the project, stylize it instead of trying to make it a single or continuous pullback. If you have the 3d chops then go for it but I’d just build the appropriate pieces in AE and have a transition where the viewer sees it’s a snowglobe.

Hope you get better advice, I just tend to look at these things from the perspective of “What do we know is do-able?” instead of “How hard can we make it?”

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

> I also just tested outputting directly to ProRes HQ from AE7 and I get the same thing. Am I missing something? Is this a Quicktime issue? It appears as if ProRes HQ is lossy between renders.< You might want to check in the FCP forums. ProRes has gotten lots of great and not-so-great ink. My first question would be are you sure you have your render handlers set up properly in FCP? bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Thanks for the links. Very imaginative typography and motion graphics.

I suggest your drop the artist a note there on youtube and ask him/her to tell you a bit about the projects.

If you watch carefully, you will see that every major new sequence has a transition. So, as Nick noted, you should be carefully dicing your project up into smaller, more manageable pieces.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”