David Bogie
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You’re going to need to define your needs more precisely. “Timelapse” is a concept that remains terribly misunderstood.
What you’re talking about seems to be simple temporal compression. SmoothCam does that remarkably well but whatever you do, it’s going to take a very long time to accomplish.Forty, 40-minute tapes? Really? that’s 1600 minutes of footage, almost 3 million frames, or 26 freakin’ hours. Who is going to be viewing the material? What’s the visual subject? What does the playback look like in terms of time? If you compress that to, say, 10 minutes, you’re keeping only one frame out of every 200 exposed.
bogiesan
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“a movie for windows” is not descriptive enough.
Are you rendering or exporting?
Huge difference.
If the render fails at the exact same place, there’s probably something subtle wrong with your composition that frame.bogiesan
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In our experience, it’s not the transcoder that is giving you trouble. It’s the Macintosh WMV Player.
If you are decoding with Flip4Mac to play in QT, you are seeing a different result than you will get viewing the same file played in the Microsoft WMV player.bogiesan
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Render out of After Effects to a good quality codec and then bring the rendered movie into a compression/transcoding system, separate from AE.
bogiesan
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[Kevin Camp] “to verify that the footage does indeed have an alpha channel”
You can do the same in FCP, set the viewer or canvas to show alpha.
bogiesan
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Just make sure the sun rises in the east.
bogiesan
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What’s an Avid?
No, FCP does not eject.
bogiesan
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What are the output options on the back of the Blu-ray player? I’d pull a composite signal directly into a DVD recorder.
Or do it the old fashioned way: plug your Blu-ray into your TV, turn out the lights, shoot your HD TV set. Capture the audio on a separate pass directly from the Blur-ray, marry them in FCP.bogiesan
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> The clips are a mixture of DSLR footage, key framed still images and AE renders <
Disparate codecs. I’d convert all to a common format before editing.
If your output is progressive, you must somehow deinterlace the interlaced files.
You apparently have approached deinterlacing incorrectly in this workflow so try something else. Me, I’d be creating new progressive media before importing the files into the project.> When I play it repeatedly the stutters are inconsistent, sometimes not at all, sometimes I’ll get 4-5 hits > over a 3″ shot.
Your stuttering playback is, by your statement that stuttering occurs at different places, is a question of drive throughput. Your system cannot play this file.
Hope you get better, likely conflicting, advice over the next several hours. Stay tuned.
bogiesan
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[Bill Triplett] “I’m using Zaxwerks Reflector plug-in. Doesn’t seem to work when nested. “
Is this a new question?
bogiesan