[Hahaiah]

I also have alot of problems using Cineform Aspect HD.
Using cineform’s capture tool or Adobe gives me trouble.

Oddly, when I first begin a comp, everything seems to work fine, but towards the end after all the work is done, I get frames showing up at random that seem to come from a variety of cineform files in the comp.

After checking the files frame by frame in other apps, they don’t show any flaws.

I’ve gotten the same effect on three different systems.

I usually use Virtualdub to simply recompress with the same footage and still choose the cineform codec. Files processed with Vdub don’t seem to have any of the above troubles.

[Hahaiah]

Creating a NEW project and composition seems to have fixed this particular problem (so far). I’ve had this problem before and couldn’t remember how I worked around it. Annoying, but at least workable. Thank you for offering to take a look, I really appreciate the help.

I’ve noticed I tend to have alot more problems when I have large AE projects. I get render errors, crashes etc alot more often when the projects are complicated. Also, using Nucleo 1.5, ANYTHING rendered in Proanimator gets a “flashing” effect and is unusable, which is too bad, because Proanimator is the very thing I could use the extra processing for.

[Hahaiah]

Thanks Jon

After looking at everything, looks like using the SPIKEBUSTER fixed most of my problems. Thanks. I thought spikebuster was for something else.
As for importing from scratch, I guess I have to read up on LIVETRACE and LIVEPAINT, etc in AI and the rest of PA manual.

Note to self: When all else fails (and I mean ALL else) … Read the manual

[Hahaiah]

Thanks for the help Jon …
I emailed you a scrn cap of my results and the AI file to the address in your profile, maybe if you have time you could take a look

I’ve gotten to the point where I HAVE to get this accomplished by next week.

I’m pretty sure it’s something I’m doing wrong within AI with the tracing and closing paths etc .. just don’t understand it at this point.

When I do get this figured out, I’ll post a step by step for anyone else who might need it …

[Hahaiah]

I’m still having problems with this also. Most of us are having problems with ILLUSTRATOR. Most of the help seems to assume everyone is famiiliar with Illustrator, which we’re not.

A friend who had a minute quickly transformed a file I needed into the “vectors” nec. to use with Proanimator. It involved TRACING and some other stuff, no more than 3 or 4 commands got exactly what I was looking for.

The file now imports but adds a LONG STRAIGHT LINE to any almost any imported file I work with, making it look strange and unusable of course. Using CS2 suite.

A simple walk through from start to finish would go A LONG way with this … maybe a CAMTASIA screen cap ? I’ve done that for people who needed help with stuff I knew about and it worked great without taking much time …

[Hahaiah]

I also use production studio and was eager to use the dynamic link feature. Unfortunately, most of my effects DO NOT transfer to Premiere for rendering which pretty much makes the feature useless to me.

I also use HDV and end up exporting all my AE projects to UNCOMPRESSED or DV50 (colors on 3D and zaxwerks much better with DV50 vs DV25 for some reason)

I then use CCE or Procoder for MPEG2

I was really surprised at the poor quality of Mainconcept’s encoder. After switching to UNCOMPRESSED and CCE, the end result is remarkably better

[Hahaiah]

Yes. Unfortunately it doesn’t fix this problem …

[Hahaiah]

I’m having problems with this also. Latest versions of everything.

Just creating a simple “plank” in illustrator and importing to ProAnimator Gives something that looks like the normal plank with a skinny line attached to the end of it that is about the same length as the original.

Oddly, saving as v8 Illustrator allows it to import correctly, but when re entering proanimator the deformed shape is back.

I’ve noticed all the illustrator files I import have this issue and have for a few versions now …

Any ideas ?