[Jessica Lawheed]

I know this is an old post, but I recently ran into the same trouble. What helped me figure it out was turning off all the layers, placing my playhead on the offending frame, and then turning on each layer one by one to see which layer was screwing it all up. It wound up being a combination of the camera layer and 1 other random layer in the composition with a stroke effect applied to it. Luckily, that layer’s effect was already done by the time it reach the crash point, so I duplicated it, turned off the effect and ended the layer before the crash point.

That worked for me. Just thought I’d add my solution in case anyone else ran across this thread as I did.

[Jessica Lawheed]

So I figured out that the reason my paths were turning into outlines was because there were slight variations of width, and the outline of the mask was accommodating for that. If I duplicate the project and turn everything into a uniform width with a basic line, then all the paths copy over just as they should.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Thank you for the response! I tried your suggestion, but when I animate the start/end of the trim paths, it begins to fill in the outline drawing with color as it animates off. I will play around with this though, to see if I can’t work it out. Thank you.

[Jessica Lawheed]

I haven’t tried using Media Encoder. Thank you, I will try that.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Yes, that is exactly what I have been doing- I apologize if that wasn’t clear in my post. The problem is that that method is not working. I have to click outside of the character pane in order to see the new font. A complete restart of my computer fixed the problem, but then invariably, it will occur again a few hours in.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Thank you.

I have actually just given it to another person and he put it in his DVD player- cropped. But on his PS3 it’s fine. Seems to be an HDMI connection thing, but I can’t find ANY setting out of dvdsp that my dvd player or his dvd player will accept outright.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Hi! Thank you for responding.

I will look in the player set-up, but my concern is that when we send it to festivals, they wont be able to see it properly, and will chuck it out-right if the player needs to be adjusted. Yes, I did encode 16:9 but not sure about p/s- I only tried it in dvdsp because I was ruling things out.

Here is part of the log info from the compression:

Stream Type: MPEG-2 Video Elementary
Frame Dimensions: 720×480
Frame Rate: 29.970030 progressive, pulldown from 23.976025
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video Format: NTSC / SMPTE 170M
Chroma Format: 4:2:0
GOP Pattern: 12/3 closed IBB
Rate Control: 2-pass VBR 3700000 bps target, 7500000 bps max
Motion Estimation: +l2orig+l0mbloop+smoothing
Search Range: 16×16
RD Optimization: +fast+dct+mode
Flags: 0x2
Visual Masking: on
Intra DC Precision: 8-bit
Quant Scale Mode: auto
Intra VLC Mode: auto
Coef Scan Mode: auto
Quant Matrix: 1
Segment Type: last

When I letter box it though, it gets letter boxed on my 16:9 television, so it’s squished- and thats with my TV being set to view 16:9. I can zoom in on my tv and it fits fine, but now it’s slightly pixelated, and that’s also another thing I don’t want to have to have a judge mess around with at a festival. Or is there always some version of that, and it’s acceptable?

Thanks again.

[Jessica Lawheed]

I had this exact problem too, and this worked for me:

I went to project settings and changed the color depth to 32 bit as opposed to 8 bit.