[Jay Thomas]

thanks for the responses, gents. as for checking the layer quality, yep, that’s set to high.

what makes me suspicious is that this was fine before my harddrive crashed and AE had to be re-installed. I keep thinking there must be something somewhere that I’m forgetting to check/click/etc.

I thought perhaps it was just a visual output problem, but I loaded an uncompressed QT onto a timeline and immediately rendered it out with all output module settings set to best. and STILL it had the aliasing.

[Jay Thomas]

thanks marcus. I just ended up having the producer re-render the DVCProHD files as QTs (animation lossless). they’re huge, but workable.

[Jay Thomas]

marcus,

raylight seems to be the promised land. but for now, I don’t have the $$$.

is there a preferred workflow that effects editors/compositors use when working with P2 footage on PCs. (ie, render to PNG sequences, etc.)

oh && – does the raylight demo watermark or have limited features? if not, it might be worth trying on this project and seeing about purchasing it later.

thanks.