[Gilbert Cuevas]

I’ve used an XML, and I’ve exported to QuickTime. I also imported the file directly from the capture scratch, but it looked the same. How do I check to see if the Settings are 525 NTSC?

[Gilbert Cuevas]

Yeah, that’s what I do. But the clip looks grainy and brighter than it does in Final Cut. Is there a way to dial in After Effects’ display settings to closer match what’s going on in Final Cuts display settings?

[Gilbert Cuevas]

I don’t know if it’s hard to tell based on these 2 stills but it basically looks like someone turned up the Gamma in After Effects revealing noise. Now if it’s just that After Effects is displaying it that way and not actually altering the footage I think I can live with it but, still, it seems logical that there should be no difference between the way the two Apps display the footage as it will affect what I do to it.

Incidently, what would be the best preflight checklist for DV NTSC widescreen 29.97 footage that is to be processed in After Effects. What’s the best footage interpretation, color space etc. The end result will be an SD DVD.

[Gilbert Cuevas]

After Effects

Final_cut_Pro

Sorry bout that.

[Gilbert Cuevas]

I uploaded screenshots from each. As far a video out thing, Final Cut Pro displays the footage without issue. It becomes really noticeable as the shots play. The noise in the final cut pro version is acceptable but in After effects it looks as though it got compressed.

[Gilbert Cuevas]

Yes, it is interpreted as lower field. I’ve toggled that on and off and there is a slight difference. It looks closer to the Final Cut Pro version when I enable the “Match Legacy After Effects Quicktime Gamma Adjustments”. But from what I’ve been reading, I shouldn’t have to mess with that. Are my Color settings or working space settings messed up?

[Gilbert Cuevas]

okay so I dropped the clip into the comp and made it a 3d layer.

Now when I move the camera it floats around like a hologram. Doesn’t look like it’s being projected onto the wall.

Previously I had corner pinned the clip to fake the perspective and then animated it sliding (keyframing the pins) over the corner.

I duplicated the clip, and changed the pins to correspond with the adjecent corner.

The problem was that the two images (masked off to look like halves of one whole) were out of sync or stretched too much or, I dunno. Picture a clip of a circle being projected onto a wall and at the corner the image splits and the ball looks like a double image.

Is there some plugin that I can use to animate the distortion so that it looks as though its crawling long the wall in perspective, or rather pinned to faux perspective?

Here’s a picture of what the distortion should look like (to be animated sliding left of course).

projectiononwall.jpg

[Gilbert Cuevas]

Wow, that was quick man! I’ll give it a shot.