Greg Quitiquit
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I’m curious why you don’t use one of the Avid codecs? It would seem to me that would be the fastest way, since (I assume) it would involve no re-encoding.
Greg Quitiquit
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I’m using Quicktime 6.5.2— A lot of my work is manipulating video from a Media 100, and the Windows M100 Transcoder doesn’t work with later versions.
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[Mylenium] “I agree that a “re-scan PSD file and import layers” function would be useful”
This is, in fact a feature request I have made. Don’t know what the status of this is, but I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt to have more people submit it as a request 😉
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As far as why, I’m no expert either. But I think Jason is correct.
As far as how to get rid of it, add some noise and then blur the resul. Back in ancient pre-historical times on the WWUG, there was a recipe which I can’t remember. I think I usually start with about 4% monochromatic noise and .3 px gaussian blur, and then just fiddle with it until it looks OK on a video monitor.
Also, I usually do it in Photoshop and then re-import the layer. My thinking is that this saves AE from having to constantly redo all that pixel crunching.
YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary)
Greg
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Thanks for the reply, Joe. In the meantime, I had gotten the audio to work by deleting everything related to this project I could find and starting over. I think a big part of the problem was a quasi-experienced user (me) rushing to whip out the DVD to make a deadline at the end of a 20 hour day of editing. But a couple of other major contributing factors where some confusion over correct field dominance setting (although I’m sure my source material was lower field first, and that’s what Encore’s “automatic” setting decided, for some reason I needed to set to “upper field first” to not get that “shimmering” effect. I suggest a more in-depth discussion of this issue and the related decision-making criteria might be in order. I’d think it was just me except for the number of posts here and elswhere I have found on the subject.
Regarding the “always conforming”, I think my observations on this were not entirely accurate (see above excuse.) I suspect that the re-conforming events were triggered by me when I tried the various forms of starting over. But I have read the rants elsewhere about how long this takes and how much disk space is required and I have to agree with the sentiment, if not the tone. The additional overhead with regard to disk space and CPU power, particularly with longer programs is particularly onerous. I guess I just never noticed it before because until now, all my Encore projects have been in the 7-20 minute range.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but after this long session I’m now flying on caffeine. I should be crashing any minute now and…. I….
zzzzzzzz…….
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Thanks! Although a bit tedious, this works and it’s certainly less tedious than any of the other workarounds I’d already come up with. Now if only I had time to learn enough AppleScript to automate this process.
Greg Q.
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[Steve Roberts] “Usually we add a bit of noise”
Years ago there was actually a simple recipe posted here (or was it over at the old WWUG?) But anyway it involved adding noise as Steve suggests, and some Gaussian Blur. Paradoxically, I’ve noticed that .2 or .3 Gaussian Blur actually makes some images appear sharper in the final video rendering (on an analog monitor, at least.)
It shouldn’t take you too much experimentation to come up with a formula that works for you.
Greg Quitiquit
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Also, make sure you do not have “Scale Out of Range RGB Values” checked on the import dialog box.
Greg Quitiquit
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I’d say if you haven’t changed anything in awhile, and nobody else is having this problem, it likely is on my end. This is the first time in a long time I’ve posted a number of times in rapid succession, so maybe the reason it’s working every time for me now is I’m beating the expiration of your cookies. I use a number of other sites that depend on cookies (including some I have built) and I am not having any problems with them. By the way, when I sent in my last post, I got a page telling me I really should become a registered user.
I work for a large company that has to have a special, customized version of Windows and of Internet Explorer as well. And they are pushing out updates (transparently) to us all the time. Another thing is, we’re required to keep the security screwed down pretty tight on I.E., and mixed zone sites like yours can cause it fits. This wouldn’t be the first time any of this created issues with other than plain vanilla web sites. But like I said, I haven’t been having any problems with the other sites I use that depend on cookies.
Greg Quitiquit
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[Eric Bliss] “How long ago did you start having a problem with your cookies?”
Hard to say. I’ve been a member since the old WWUG days, and still read the boards pretty much daily. But now days I hardly ever post. (Everybody else has apparently gotten smarter.) Besides, I doubt it’s just cookies because I don’t have to go through the reset drill everytime. For example, I didn’t have to reset cookies to do this post.
[Eric Bliss] “have you installed any new programs on your system for cookie blocking, ad blocking, spy-ware blocking, etc?”
No. And again, I would think if there were any blocking going on, it would have made me reset before doing this post.
Greg Quitiquit