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Each individual file wasn’t so big, but when I got them into PPro, it just took about a half hour to render – when it finally finished and I played it back, it was really jumpy and flickered a lot. I tried importing them in both as individual images and then as a single clip (numbered stills), with the same result.
Maybe my export settings are wrong?
File Type = Microsoft DV AVI
Compressor = DV NTSC
Color Depth = Millions of Colors
Pixel Aspect Ratio = Square Pixels (1.0)
Bit Depth = Maximum

It’s going to eventually have to be exported both for the Web and onto DVD, so I was trying to make it DVD-ready first to make sure the quality was good. If you have any suggestions, I’d greatly appreciate them. (I don’t know much about compressing and such, so I was just trying to go by the book.)

I’m going to work on the track matte thing, now – thanks for that! Hopefully once I find a good solution, the rest of the video will go smoothly.

Thanks for your help!
Jodi

[Jodi Engel]

Well, I’ve tried everything, and nothing seems to be working well. Using the SwfAvi and converting to tga sequences would probably be ok if there weren’t so many frames (over 1000) – it just creates a HUGE file in the end.

Would it be better to try to do it all in PPro? Does anyone know how – if it’s possible – to show the “typing” effect in PPro (i.e. one letter at a time coming on screen)?

Thanks, guys…

Jodi

[Jodi Engel]

Thanks for everyone’s response and help! I’m off to give everything a try.

Thanks, again everyone! 🙂

Jodi

[Jodi Engel]

I’m on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. Is that what you’re asking? I’m not sure about the video card – it’s my work computer and I had nothing to do with installation.

[Jodi Engel]

I’m having the same problem with Iris transitions. They work in the program view, but when I export to an .avi file it doesn’t show up at all – like it’s just a piece missing. Other transitions seem to work fine. Anyone have suggestions?