[Jimmy Brunger]

Just as an add-on to this…is there a reason why AE would crash when I try to pre-comp a ProAni solid layer? I was going to try shadows with a pre comp instead to see how that works and it came up with the ‘this will now run in demo mode’ window and then AE shuts itself down.

Ta.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I had this probelm quite alot with AE 5.5..usually it just didn’t like MP3s, but also happened with WAVs when I had a particular version of Quicktime. Try going back to an older v. of QT and see if it fixes. There are some known bugs with 5.5, not sure about 6.0. But it’s worth a try.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Yes it does, thanks Jon. I’ll call Zaexwerks about the price of upgrade from my 3.0 classic to ProAni and I’ll download the demo of ProAni and give it a go.

Ta for all your help.

Jim.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Jon, thanks. Will ring Zaxwerks on monday.

Tell me – in your experience is ProAnimator or Invig Pro the best choice for working with AE7 currently? Obviously ProAni has great behavioral animation functions, but I understand it does have some limitations that inhibit real integration with AE because of lack of 3D tracking and the fact the animation itself is totally outside of AE? Have I got this right, or have you found working with the 2 fairly seamless?

Thanks.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

No worries.

Digital Anarchy do an excellent plugin called ‘Resizer 2.0’ if you’ve got after effects?

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/section/section_ae-video.html#pr2

A bit pricey maybe though…If not then I’m sure there are some decent PS filters for this. just google it..

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[Jimmy Brunger]

You are pretty much limited to the resolution of the image on the DVD (not very high) I get this all the time with clients wanting massive printed stills of frames of their commercial, even though it was sourced on DVCAM or Digibeta or whatever – which is 720×576 pixels in size (PAL)

That said, you can get a fairly decent 1/2 A4 sized print form any Standard Def still and if you use the sharpen tool in Photoshop and a good Resizing plugin if you’ve got one you can get the most out of the image that way. Otherwise just use Bicubic Best (? Not in front of PS right now) scaling – in your preferences.

You MAY get a better result if you deinterlace your footage before scaling it up aswell, depending on how much movement their is in the still.

Good luck.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Jon,

I probably will do (ProAnimator possibly)…but I want to see if I get on with the interface and it has what I need before asking the boss to shell out. Will it definitely not work with 7.0?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Sent… Thanks Mike.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I’d knock the firewire on the head and get a standard def (presumably you are working standard def?) Decklink Pro card and use the composite output into a decent CRT domestic TV. I think you will still get a better result than via firewire, plus you will be set up with as many outputs as you will ever need when you can afford a secondhand broadcast monitor, plus you can now output/capture to anything upto D1 or Digibeta tape if you’re RAID is fast enough.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

OOops…can’t find your email address anyhere on your website Mike? I’d give you a call but I fear it would cost a bomb from here in UK!

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