Derek Shin
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COW had a good article on this a couple issues back. If you compress your vid with flash Before uploading to YouTube (they use flash video) it won’t be recompressed and look very good. Most of those video sites recompress your uploaded vid to match there display settings. Do it yourself and they’ll keep it that way.
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I don’t know what you mean by the letters should be split in 2, but I would approach this by building all individual elements in Illustrator (letters on plastic cards). You could probably find a “train station” font somewhere. Then just simply animate the 3d rotation with motion blur in AE. You could set up one comp with the move and duplicate it for each of the different titles.
(sorry if this is too basic)
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So today I did realize that the spill does exist ever-so-slightly in the Keyed comp, but it definitely is amplified when nested again into a master comp. For some reason, the alpha track matte picks up more of the edges than I would like, probably because it is not using keylights spill suppress and only looking at the alpha channel. Still don’t know why it gets increasingly bad with each nested comp, I just added spill suppression twice and tweaked the edges as a temp fix. Any more info on this would be appreciated!
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Can you post a low rez version of the keyed footage? You probably want to animate something that matches that.
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Wow, I hardly thought David’s comment deserved such a harsh response from Ron.
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Do you see it in your Comp window while working, or is it only on render that is shows up? If it is in the comp, toggle through your layers to identify where it’s sitting. Then check that layer for any hidden masks or solids, that’s what it looks like to me.
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1) I can’t think of a real reason to separate fields when working in AE, maybe someone else could chime in. Do you mean reading “in” fields? Just make sure when you import your footage, you interpolate it correctly. And changing field order does not affect frame rate (i.e., PAL 25i vs Pal25p is the same frame rate).
2) Again, you should not change frame rate unless deliberately changing speed (i.e., slow motion). If this is for standard broadcast, you can simply import/work/render in standard Pal 25 interlaced. AE is good about dealing with all the video format issues for you behind the scenes.
3) Yes, you would want to export with progressive frames for web video. YouTube specifically uses Flash. You can use third-party compression programs such as Squeeze or Compressor that automates the compression for you. I usually use either Flash or H.264 for web.
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Thanks so much for that. I’m surprised I got a response from AE-god himself. Nobody really likes to talk about this, it’s like the magicians code…
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Sweet! I didn’t know if that DVD only focused on web compression, so I haven’t picked it up yet.
Thanks,
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I agree, there are some really basic wiggle expressions that I use all the time now…
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