David Frisk
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Thanks everyone for your replies to an obviously off topic post. It just seems that every time I learn something I’ve been confused about for a long time, it gives me a sense of satisfaction for about 5 minutes, but then leads me to about 5 other questions…
I guess that’s video for ya.
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Thanks for all your help and advice. I finally got it to work. It was shot 24p normal. My friend was the one that set up the FCP project, so I wasn’t sure what settings he was using…I just knew that it was 30fps in Final Cut. So when I brought it in to AE, I removed the pulldown and worked at 24 fps, and then rendered it back out at 29.97 by putting the pulldown back in. It’s actually what I thought I did before, but I must have accidentally put different settings. But it works fine now.
But thanks again. You just taught me a bunch of stuff I didn’t know before about 24p and whatnot, and I love learning new stuff. So thanks.
David
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Thanks anyway. Appreciate it.
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Because it seems that the camera automatically introduces pulldown internally, because my FCP project is at 30 fps instead of 24.
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Sorry, I’m out of ideas. I’m thinking somethings gotta be set weird in your comp settings or something if it looks fine in the footage window…but I really couldn’t tell you for sure.
Maybe someone tomorrow can help you. Best of luck.
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Pixel Aspect Ratio correction is for when you’re working with non-square pixels. Since computer monitors have square pixels, images made up of non-square pixels look a little stretched. So they have the PAR correction button which adjusts the picture so that it looks more like it would on a TV, as opposed to the distorted way it kind of looks on your monitor. However, when you use it, the picture loses a little quality. It looks like yours is turned on.
The button is located at the bottom of the comp window. It’s the button just to the right of where you pick your camerea view (Yours is set to “Active Camera”). So hit the button just to the right of it to turn it off, because I think you have it turned on.
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Are you saying you want layer two to be the matte and be able to see layer one? If that’s what you’re trying to do, you have to have whichever layer you want to actually see below the other layer. Whichever layer is on top is the matte. Sorry, I’m not quite sure if that’s what you’re asking though.
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Well in your screenshot it looks as though you have the PAR correction on which would make the quality worsen. I’m not sure what the settings were of your comp for the posted pics, but what happens if you make the comp with the exact same settings as the picture (drag your picture onto the “new composition” icon)? Does it still look that way?
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Okay, I got ya now. I didn’t realise DVD had to be at 720×480. I guess more or less I was just wondering if I could somehow project my comp on a TV (not necessarily through DVD), if 640×480 would give the exact same result as 720×480 non-square…but I assume it would.
Anyway, thanks for the replies everyone. I appreciate it.
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So basically I could create something in After Effects with simple circles and stuff at 640×480, put it on a DVD, and it would be proportionally correct on the TV and all as though I had used 720×480 non-square?