Jason Milligan
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You need to turn on the “continuous rasterization” switch for the swf layer, it looks like a starburst.
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Moire patterns are an optical illusion caused by crisscrossing shapes. If what you are seeing is a moire pattern (remember, I am only assuming b/c I haven’t seen the footage), then it would only appear in your patterns, not strokes or drop shadows. I included a link to moire on Wikipedia in my prior post. Did you look at it? It may help you understand the problem if it is indeed moire.
Are you able to post any screen grabs?
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To reinforce what Darby and Dave are saying,
DPI means “dots per inch” but should actually say “pixels per inch.” (DPI in Photoshop is actually PPI)
It is the number of pixels used to print 1inX1in.
It means nothing in video. It is only a reference for print quality or scanning quality. -
Without seeing the footage I can only guess, but my assumption is you are seeing a moire pattern.
If your pattern is very finely detailed, it may not be avoidable.
Things you can try are enlarging the pattern, refining it so its elements are less fine, adding slight blurs, making sure nothing is smaller than two pixels.What resolution are you working and are you working interlaced?
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As Dave has pointed out, you can’t “play” without RAM previewing, but these tips may be helpful to you:
You can scrub audio if you hold down Command/Ctrl while dragging the playhead.
You can open the waveform and sync to its peaks and valleys. -
Yes, but you must enable “continuous rasterization.” (It looks like a starburst in the timeline)
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[Kevin Camp] “i’d upgrade to at least cs3 for native intel code rather than having to run ae7 under powerpc emulation (rosetta).”
I concur.
CS3 native vs AE7 under Rosetta makes a huge difference.
Before CS3 released, I was stuck working in Rosetta for months and it was miserable, constant crashes, slow operations, failing renders. CS3 was a godsend. -
Perhaps you’ll be sad to hear CS4 was released last month.
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No, you are not required to use .h264 for web video, although it is very common and often advantageous to use it.
How are you distributing your video?
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Look in the Shape Layer properties for the layer.
Click the triangle for the shape layer.
Then click “Contents” >”Rectangle 1″ (or whatever your shape is named)>Rectangle Path.
You’ll see a property called “size” that will give you modifiable pixel dimensions.