[Enzo Tedeschi]

One thing to check if your Illustrator files are showing up soft in the render, is that you have Continuous Rasterisation switched ON for those layers, particularly if the file resides inside a pre-comp. This will force AE to look at the original vector graphic from the Illustrator file when rendering, making it sharper.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Never used iDVD, but ordinarily the 16:9 flag for a DVD is set on the disc. Your DVD player then has to recognise that and letterbox it or otherwise according to your player user settings.

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Use mpeg streamclip to convert your VOBs directly to DV MOV:

https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html

It’s a free tool, and works very very well. You can even select in and out points on your VOB for conversion.

640×480 is not a video res – 720×480 is NTSC. If you use mpeg streamclip, you should also solve the interlacing problem you’re having.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If you already have animated masks, then one way to do it would be to use a colour effect of some sort to affect the areas inside the masks.
If you only have a single layer, then dupe it, and delete the masks from the lower layer. If your masks are set up right, you should have a layer with just your flaps showing, above the full image. If you affect the masked layer, you should have it…?

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If the plane’s flaps are a different colour to the rest of the plane already, then this tutorial on the COW might help:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/coolsville/index.html

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Thanks, Mark. Yes I had seen this one. I was a little more preoccupied with finding out why there was a difference!

It’s been a learning experience for us both!

Have a great Christmas and a awesome ’06.

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Whoa!

That’s a whole other nightmare!

This isn’t a DVD Studio Pro forum, but in broad strokes, you will need to create 3 separate clips (one for the whole cut with the double-up, one for each clean section) and then create angles in your DVD project using these 3 assets.

Tricky but do-able.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

If you are only looking for stills:

http://www.sxc.hu

Share and share alike. It’s free if you contribute.

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Mark,

I posted the query on the Australian Screen Editors Guild forums, and here is a neat clarification:

https://www.screeneditors.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1270

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

It’s no trouble – I’d like an answer myself!

It would seem that the field order of digitised footage depends on the hardware used. Some capture cards are ordered upper-first, others are lower-first. Perhaps once this is played out as a video signal back to a deck, the order doesn’t matter as much as it does to have 50 fields for each PAL second? I’m just guessing, here, as all my googling seems to have come up with nada…

I’ll keep searching!

Enzo Tedeschi
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