Enzo Tedeschi
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Mark,
I have seen a few lists posted around the web, but they seem to be full of inaccuracies. As I understand it, a lot of PAL codecs / formats are upper field first. DV seems to be an anomaly as lower. I may stand corrected on that. Avid uncompressed SD works in upper. It’s all over the place.
I usually do a check when doing an FX shot for an unfamiliar project format. Most of the time, you will be affecting a digitised piece of footage, or creating a shot to be re-inserted into an existing sequence. A brief investigation will reveal the field order of what you are woking in, and just make sure you match your AE settings. You can’t really go wrong that way…
And by all means, if you find that (correct) list, please post it here!
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I always check my field render order before rendering my comps. You can set it from your render queue.
Quicktime PAL DV is lower field first, while some others use upper. Make sure you match your output gear, and you should be fine. When rendering for someone elses gear, I often use progressive if the content allows (supers, slower moves etc)
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You could lay the inset clip (or what will be) above the base clip in the timeline, the select the inset clip and hit Enter to load it into the viewer. You can then select the Motion tab in the viewer and change the Scale and Crop properties to create your Picture-in-Picture.
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If you’re looking for stock footage:
ARTBEATS
http://www.artbeats.comGETTY FILM
https://creative.gettyimages.com/source/frontdoor/defaultfilm.aspxI usually can find what I am looking for between these two.
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[rob katz] “ALL monitors that screen video, screen it as ntsc (as opposed to pal)”
Well, yes. But that doesn’t make it broadcast monitor. Broadcast monitors are far more hard-wearing, have more horizontal lines of resolution, and better colour fidelity.
[rob katz] “will the 20″ flat screen $88 memorex @ target be considered an ntsc monitor becasue it incorporates a svhs input and plays back ntsc information?”
Absolutely not. I’m not sure what the prices are like over there (I’m in Australia) but for a 20″ broadcast monitor, you can expect to pay well in excess of $US1000, I would imagine. I just bought a second-hand sony 20″ CRT broadcast monitor here, and it set me back a couple of grand.
Having said that, using a TV for your external monitor is probably better than just cutting on your computer monitor – at the very least you can see any issues with the interlacing. SVHS is a good thing to look for at this level of gear. Broadcast monitors will have conections like component or SDI, something else that qualifies that pricetag.
Hope this clarifies a little…
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You’re welcome.
Nesting is like creating one big clip from all your clips. If you select all the video clips in one sequence, and then go Modify > Nest Items (or somewhere around there in the menus), all your clips on the timeline will be submastered into what appears to be one big clip. Don’t worry, you can still access the individual clips by double-clicking the nested clip.
What this does is it enables you to apply filters or scaling etc to ALL the clips at once, rather than having to scale up every cut in the sequence. To do this, click on the nested clip in the timeline, and hit Enter. This will load it into the viewer where uyou can scale and keyframe like you would any other clip.
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Julien,
If filesize is not an issue, I would use the most widespread, garden variety codec possible (maybe an uncompressed AVI, even?), and max out the bitrate. It will just depend on your playback machine’s grunt.
Or if you wanna stick with WMV, use the highest bitrate possible, and get your playback PC upgraded to the most recent version on Media Player. It’s free, so your client can’t possibly complain if you explain that it’s in their best interests (max compatibility with your work, less playback issues etc…)
Enzo Tedeschi
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Timothy is spot-on, but I will just add this: you may be better off adding your new character first, then tring to remove the old one. Your new character my go a long way to hiding your old one, leaving you with less work to do with blurs / tracking / keyframing.
Enzo Tedeschi
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Had this issue recently with videos for a Flash CD-ROM.
My solution was to nest the sequence, and scale it up (only by about 4%, that’s usually enough in PAL) to get rid of the black, and then export the movie. Because the FLV format is going to compress the heck out of it anyway, you won’t notice the slight softness introduced by the scaling.
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Ordinarily, video for flash is encoded from within Flash, is it not? Might you not be better off importing a higher-res codec quicktime into flash and let it do the flv conversion? You will likely get more control over the encoding that way…
Enzo Tedeschi
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