[Eric Olson]

Ok, the plot thickens.

1) I create an AE project 720×480 and 24fps, D1/DV PAR

2)I animate a line drawing and export QT with same settings using Animation codec. The QT looks great at this point.

3)I import to Avid Project at 24p NTSC, import settings RGB, 601 non-square, Ignore Alpha. At this point the video looks pixelated in Avid monitor window (don’t have my CRT monitor hooked up as I’m running a minimal set up right now)

4)Add clip to timeline and export as QT, 24 fps, Animation Codec, 640×480 sq px

…essentially, I brought it into Avid and exported at exactly the same setting, aside from converting from D1/DV PAR to square pixels.

The pixelated result can be seen in the image below, even though the QT looked great coming out of AE. Essentially, there is no interlacing going on in this process at all and yet I’m getting interlacing effects.

Anyone have an idea of what is going on here?

[Eric Olson]

I understand your point about the divisible by 16 thing. Although I don’t think it would matter on export as I’m using the Animation (lossless) codec but would be important for the flash encoding.

https://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/video_sizes.html

Man, could they make this stuff anymore complicated!!! You have to be a broadcast engineer these days just to get your stuff on the web and looking good.

EO

[Eric Olson]

I see your point about bringing the footage into a progressive Avid project. In this case, that would have worked because it is a purely animation project. And I’ll do that with similar projects in the future.

However, I also have projects that are a combination of DV footage and AE footage. When you import into Avid it asks the field order of your project and non-interlaced is an option. It should then apply the correct field order to the AE footage on import and from there on out it should be treated no differently than the DV footage. Yes/no?

Thanks,

Eric

[Eric Olson]

Yeah, but it doesn’t really solve my problem.

[Eric Olson]

Yes, the original footage is progressive as it was created in After Effects. The footage looked bad in the Avid window but the QT movie export looked fine.

EO

[Eric Olson]

Wow, that was a tricky one. I’ll give it a try. I had never used the Pantone colors before but I thought they were just a set of colors rather than being a different types of color.

Thanks for your help!

Eric

[Eric Olson]

I already changed the gradients in the pig illustration I posted before but here is another one that I’m having problems with. The “nose” and eyebrows of the pig are coming out white.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/jdwv2k

Thanks,

Eric