[Hillary Leben]

You could try throwing away your preferences.

I THINK that is in users:library:preferences: something.apple.aftereffects??

Something like that?

[Hillary Leben]

The only time I’ve had this happen is when I press that “continuously rasterize” button. Do you have that button selected? If not, try selecting it. If so, try unselecting.

Hillary

[Hillary Leben]

Open the files in Photoshop and do a “save as”.. select jpg at full quality, and try importing again.. This is what I do when AE doesn’t like a file.

Hillary

[Hillary Leben]

You rock!

Thanks so much for all of this info.

The only detail I am still not clear on is how, exactly, to set DVD studio Pro so that it will output a progressive disk? Where, exactly, is the setting? Is there a setting? Or should it burn progressive if the footage is progressive?

All of the field stuff is set to automatic, and progressive is not an option.. there is the 480i that you mentioned. Those are the only places I see options in the standard menus.

Hillary

[Hillary Leben]

Thanks for this.

I will run some more tests!

I did render progressive. I encoded progressive. When I viewed it from the player, I’m sure I saw fields. I was using RCA cables into an LCD screen.

Could that be why?

[Hillary Leben]

ALso, here are the specs for the projector. I was working with the deck today.. it had “progressive scan” written on the front of it.

These are the specs I have on their projector:
Sony VPL LCD projector
Standard zoom lense
15 HD-M to 5 BNC-F Breakout Adapter
100′ RGB-HV cable set

Thanks

[Hillary Leben]

Thanks for your help..
What version of DVD SP are you using? In 4, it seems as though the standard progressive option is gone. 🙁

I’ve been reading on this all day and still haven’t found a way to do it…

[Hillary Leben]

Thanks a lot for the response.

My footage is almost all created in After Effects, so I have a lot of control, it’s simply a question of rendering it correctly. I have been rendering the files at 29.97, animation codec, and progressive.. Next I will go through compressor, or.. go directly into DVD sp.

Unfortunately, it seems as though DVD studio Pro is not even capable of a standard def progressive DVD. So even if I could get the deck and projectors speaking progressive, I would still end up with an interlaced image! So frustrating!

We’ve been working in interlace in the past.. I just thought progressive would probably help me with all of the moire, but I can take care of that with filters, as I’ve been doing.

So do you suggest using compressor with a constant bit rate of 7.8.. or let DVD studio pro do the encoding?

Thanks again,
Hillary