[Jason Brown]

I did not know this…great read Walter, thank you so much.

I had always done “separate fields” and I thought I knew what the software was doing…apparently I was wrong 🙂

Have a great Christmas …

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

It’s funny…because until now, I never fully understood what that function did. I always assumed that it deinterlaced the footage, but after reading AFX help…now I have a question.

Quoted from Adobe help site on AFX CS4:

…in an After Effects project, you get the best results if you separate the video fields when you import the footage. After Effects separates video fields by creating a full frame from each field,… (IT GOES ON TO SAY) …After Effects accurately converts the two interlaced frames in the video to noninterlaced frames, while preserving the maximum amount of image quality.

So now I’d like to ask, if AFX creates a “full frame from each field” … wouldn’t the duration of the clip double?

Sorry to be a little off topic 🙂

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

That looks like an internal hard drive taped to the back of the laptop there is some sort of power cable USB adapter on there as well…bizarre! Maybe he ran out of space and needed an external hard drive 🙂

wow…thanks for the laugh Peter!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’m sure you know this but CMD+alt+C remembers interpretation and you can paste the interpretation to multiple clips at one time in your project window. (CMD+alt+V).

This was always helpful when going from AVID to AE…the necessary metadata that Adobe puts in QT exports from Premier apparently doesn’t exist when coming from AVID.

-Jason

ALSO…you said –

[Dave Fleming] “Interpreting the footage lower field first”

It’s been a while since I dealt with interlaced footage in AE, but the interpretation of which field is first isn’t controllable, only to “separate fields”…if selected, this will essentially de-interlace your footage so you can scale it above or below 100% and not have a strange field rendering. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[Jason Brown]

Well Dave,

I’m not understanding…my AVID experience was on Media Composer using Meridien hardware which is D1 – 720×486.

You say —

[Dave Fleming] “I’m exporting from Avid Media Composer as QT Reference files. So, there should be no issues there. AE interprets the footage correctly as DV Widescreen 720 x 480”

But then you also say –

[Dave Fleming] “but also the typical slight jittery video you would expect from feeding the Avid anything that’s not 720 x 486”

Which, as I read it, sounds contradictory…does your AVID work natively at 480 or 486? I’ve never dealt with MOJO, but I think that is a DV system which would be 480.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Just a thought I had this morning. I’ve not ever done any “up-converting” of footage with my Matrox. Would this be a good opportunity to do that? It will be coming into the Matrox through SDI and it’s 16×9 SD.

Are there quality advantages to upconverting? Or is it a workflow benefit when mixing with HD sources?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

What avid media composer codec are u using? Is it an older avid? U need to confirm that u r using DV and not D1.

[Jason Brown]

[Gino Kalkanoglu] “You also need to export a movie file and dump it in compressor in order for MAX technology to work its magic.”

You are wrong. I do send to compressor all the time…and keep working in FCP. It works amazingly.

And, although I use compressor for all of my matrox encoding, I believe that codec is open to using in Quicktime 7 – Episode Pro – and Adobe Media Encoder (there were issues with running it through AME on mac, but I think they have been worked out)

From a speed and quality perspective…Matrox offers the best (IMHO) solution.

I used to use sorenson all the time…and I wasn’t a fan of compressor at first, but it has grown on me. Most things I want to do, I can do…but it’s not as simple and understandable of an interface as Squeeze 5 was for me.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

sweet…thanks Jeremy!

🙂

[Jason Brown]

[Patrice Freymond] “you put your sequence in a bin”

What do you mean by this? Sequence already exists in the browser. No toggle down to reveal markers and make subclips. This only works with clips.

-Jason