Erik Pontius
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I don’t think anyone in their right mind will pay to hear your pitch. If they steal your concept, you probably didn’t want to work with them anyway…those are the types that will bend you over backwards and pay you next to nothing.
Erik
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We have one of those standard emergency exit signs with a new plastic cut out above the door to the studio, then your standard light switch inside the studio to turn it on and off.
Erik
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Sounds like something better suited for a 3d modeling application.
AE has some wonderful abilities but it is not a 3d application.The April 2007 edition of Cinefex magazine had a pretty nice write up on Ghostrider, which also had elemental characters (earth, wind, water…) all were built in 3d applications.
Erik
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My guess is because the explosion happens right in front of it.
I would imagine that the signs on the buildings are easy to track and most of the objects that pass in front of them would be relatively easy to roto. However, since the explosion has a bunch of particles and debris that obscure parts of the sign, it would be next to impossible to roto and easier to key it.
Hundreds of sq feet of greenscreen is probably not cheap either.Just my guess…
Erik
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You can import a whole project into another, pick and choose your comps, delete the ones you don’t want.
Erik
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Short answer is NO.
Your only hardware option is going to be the Avid MOJO.Erik
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I re-read his original post. I think he created a sq pixel widescreen comp, and not an HD comp, he’s just using screenshots created in PS that are 1920×1080.
Keep in mind that the lower resolution and interlacing of DVD is not friendly to graphics and other material with fine detail (like text on a webpage). Keep this in mind when you build your comps in AE, since you are working with large graphics, you can pan/zoom into areas to make them larger. Another trick for stills that have a lot of fine detail is to add a small amount of vertical blur, 1 pixel should do it. You might also consider generating fields in your render settings in AE (i.e. lower field first).
Last but not least, I’m sure that the built in mpeg encoder in encore is adequate for some quick jobs, but most of your pro’s are going to be using stand-alone encoders (like Canopus Pro-coder, Sorenson Squeeze, etc…) where they can control the encode to get the best quality, calculating out bitrates to squeeze the highest bitrate keeping within the space limitations of the disc. I wouldn’t go higher than around 7mb/s unless you plan on getting this disc replicated at a facility and your delivery to them is DLT tape.Erik
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What settings are you using to render the file from AE?
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Right. You are creating a self-contained quicktime movie. Make sure that you choose a lossless codec that is cross-platform. The animation codec I suggested earlier is lossless and cross-platform. It will result in a pretty big file.
Erik
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I don’t think a professional house would charge $6 a minute. I think these guys were using more professional equipment to do this, we had something like 8 or more different languages including Japanese and Mandarin.
This was the company that did the work:
https://www.sdimediagroup.com/There was probably some markup included in that pricing, since this was the quote we got from the production house, who hired the translation company…I’m sure they took a cut.
Erik