[Janne Laiho]

Thanks all! The CC Simple Wire Removal did the job.

[Janne Laiho]

Thanks, Adam. It seems to be the GI settings indeed.

I find this a bit strange, though. With everything else at default, the legacy irradiance cache setting gives quite acceptable results and very fast: similar in quality to when I set samples and record density to “high”. However the same image takes 4 secs. to render with the former and over 2 minutes with the latter settings. The legacy irradiance cache method doesn’t produce the bumps/spots.

Then again I’m really new to C4D and I guess I just need to learn GI more. However I do find it strange that a legacy method seems ok while any other combination of settings produce results that are not acceptable.

cheers
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Thanks Kevin. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing. I know AE relatively well and realize it’s not a word processing program, however this is a feature that has much use (I guess I’m not the only person in the world making videos with text boxes here and there – not that I like them, but my client wants them), and I was hoping this useful feature is there somewhere.

Time for a feature request, I guess.

Cheers
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Thanks for the examples Vishesh!

br Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Thanks! A track matte with an color corrected version of the original layer works perfect. Why didn’t I think of that…

br Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Hi,

thanks for your response. I’m afraid still re-conforming with the “Save Media Cache Files next to originals when possible”checked.

PPro always wants to re-conform that one particular clip, which is the one that was recorded as the camera changed from one memory card to the other. I wonder if there’s anything I could do apart from rendering out that clip and re-inserting that into the project? Thanks.

Cheers
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for you reply.

As I understand it, it’s not possible in PPro to drop 1080 footage onto a 720 timeline so that it be automatically 67.67% scaled. This is too bad – in FCP I’ve used to doing that and then when editing crop some shots (but not all). How PPro works, I don’t find a convenient way to do that (editing with every shot cropped, as is the case with 1080 footage on a 720 timeline with autoscale off, is not an option).

I guess I’ll drop in a feature request to Adobe.

cheers
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Hi,

thanks for the replies, finally got back to working this problem again. Yes, I understand that PAL is 25 fps, and I understand that a 23.976 fps source file needs new frames altogether to become PAL-compliant. My question really was that is there something that I should know about Adobe Encore to encode a working DVD by means of sending a PPro sequence to it – it is implied that Encore can do this. Attempting to do that, however, resulted in a bad DVD with the discussed errors in the result.

I wouldn’t want to build an NTSC DVD for European distribution. Yes, it is true that most of the time the disc probably works, but sometimes it might not, depending on the player and/or TV/projector in question.

I found that transcoding in AME first, then bringing the transcoded assets for DVD building in Encore worked

Thanks, cheers,
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Thanks, all!

The FCP plug-in sounds interesting, however as it’s restricted to non-commercial use, I won’t be able to use that. I guess it’s a question of being aware of the prolem and perhaps occasionally trying to correct such problem footage in AE etc.

Cheers
Janne

[Janne Laiho]

Hi again,

To answer my own question, in case somebody else’s thinking about this: it turned out that I simply didn’t have the frame rate to support a fluid motion in the movement that my animation contained. I had a few quite swift camera movements across the imaginary space, and since I didn’t have enough frames in between the far left and far right views, this resulted in some jerky motion that really can’t be avoided without inceasing the frame rate.

A learning experience for me (not surprisingly, this was my first animation); I didn’t come think of this when planning my piece. So I think going forward I’ll first think about what the final medium will be before even considering animating certain things. I.e. not extremely fast camera movements across a space if a high frame rate can’t be used etc.

Thanks to Dave for the insights. Definitely an art as much as a science.

Cheers,
Janne