Ed Oconnell
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Thanks David.
My company is willing to put some money into buying new hardware for these type of projects. Do you have any recommendations on that front, for audio/video capture hardware that plays well with these settings?
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Well . . . I suppose this is a cop out, but your insights have resulted in a temporary fix. I ended up re-doing the key in Premiere and exporting to .flv from Premiere, and I am no longer seeing the artifact. At first, Premiere would not recognize the audio channel, but I found another thread on that, and now I have a less sophisticated key (the edges of my subject don’t blend quite as smoothly with the background as they did out of After Effects), that will get me through the next week or so while I continue this investigation.
I can’t thank any of you enough for taking the time to respond to me.
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The camera is a Sony HandyCam DCR SR300.
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Okay, I’ll try that and see what happens and report on it. The footage came off the camera as MPEG2, which is giving me other headaches as well (apparently the audio channel is not recognized by Premiere); I will have to see whether or not there is a way to change encoding at the source.
But in the meantime, just so I am clear, is what you are suggesting encoding the raw footage to Photo JPEG, saving it that way, and then applying my effects? I think that is what I am hearing, so I am going to try it that way.
The final product needs to be .flv, and I confess I am a total newbie at After Effects. Once in Flash, I can swim, but for the moment, I’m just treading water.
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Hmmmm . . . I’ll try purging, but I have a feeling it is something else, perhaps in the source, only because it shows up at the same time each time, and I’ve tried several times over a week or so, so the computer has been restarted. The background color is actually set to black, and the only other color I’ve introduced is a white solid which I used to see how the transparency looked. I deleted that layer prior to rendering.