Joey Foreman
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Nobody here can tell you with certainty what delivery codec you need. For that you need to contact the station you’re delivering to. As for the resolutions, that’s easy.
Create your main composition as PAL D1/DV Widescreen. Render to the proper codec.
Now create a PAL D1/DV (not widescreen) comp, and drop your widescreen comp into that one, and scale it down to 64%. Render to delivery codec.Joey Foreman
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Before rendering, have you checked that your comp indeed has transparency by clicking on the checkerboard, or by setting the comp display to Alpha?
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What codec are you rendering to?
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By “nonlinear” I’m guessing you mean interactive. If so, then you’re correct, AE doesn’t have interactivity functionality.
Flash, on the other hand, does. And Flash can work with embedded movie clips.
You can generate those clips in AE, render them to a Flash format, then embed them in your Flash project.
As far as the Desperate Housewives opener, none of that looks to me like actual 3d. It looks like the “2.5d” that AE is very capable of.
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Preferences > General
Uncheck Default Spatial Interpretation to Linear.
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That’s most likely a result of Keylight’s built-in spill suppression.
I usually bypass it by applying Keylight to a duplicate layer above the original, set to Screen Matte, and used as a Luma Matte for the original layer. I then use a Hue/Sat effect to decrease the spill.
But keep in mind than one application of a keyer is rarely 100% effective, particularly if the subject was poorly lit, or if the chroma subsampling of the source media is less than 4:2:2.
In that case it’s more effective to use one instance of the keyer to generate a core matte, and another for the edge. There are tutorials for this technique online, as well as some step-by-steps in this forum.
And no AE compositer should be without a copy of Mark Christiansen’s excellent Studio Techniques, which covers the finer points of keying in exhaustive depth.Oh yea, and everything Dave said as well.
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There are different ways you could go about this. But why not just pull a clean key as usual, then drop in a yellow solid underneath?
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Continuously Rasterize doesn’t keep vector footage sharp when increasing the Comp window magnification, only when upscaling the item using its Scale property, or when tracking into it with a camera.
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Select them all in the Project Panel and drag them to the Render Queue.
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Quicktime Player defaults to displaying DV footage in low quality mode. In the Show Movie Properties > Video Track dialogue, High Quality can be enabled. In QT preferences, High Quality can be enabled as the default. So you were probably seeing it low quality, with interlacing.
AE deinterlaces on import, and displays at full quality.
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