Joey Foreman
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I’m not one of the main cow gurus, but I have a good deal of experience with this kind of work in AE.
1. If you captured the footage in FCP it shouldn’t be .dv; it should be .mov in the DV/NTSC codec. Maybe that’s what you meant? I’m wondering about that, though, since you say it’s bogging down your computer. Staight up DV (as opposed to .dv) footage runs smooth as butter on seven year old G4’s with 7800 rpm drives. If you mean you’re not get smooth playback in AE, once you’ve done your keying, then you must be trying to watch real-time playback without the use of RAM preview. That’s not going to happen on any system, at least not at full speed.
2. AE is, among other things, a compositing app. FCP isn’t. You should stick to AE for the compositing.
3. .dv is a proprietary format for imovie only. Did you capture with imovie? If so, the footage needs to be converted to DV/NTSC.
4. You say that you’re happy with the way your keys are turning out. That’s surprising as DV is a notoriously poor format for keying. But it’s the best you have. You can’t add more color space by converting to another format.
That being said, I strongly recommend the use of Magic Bullet for AE, especially if you’re keying. It converts interlaced footage to progressive better than AE. And it has an antialiasing feature to smooth out the jagged edges inherent in DV footage.By the way, I’m sure you’re aware of all the potential copyright violations in a project of this nature.
Good Luck.
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Bullet effects should be done a little differently for members of the clergy. You should probably consult a vicar.
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Have you tried Effects > Time >Posterize Time?
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I’ll give it a shot. Thanks.
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Sorry, it’s not one tutorial, it’s a book.
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…and they won’t, because of the noise inherent in video.
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Just to check, when you say 30 f.p.s., you do mean 29.97, right?
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You brought it in as an .ai file?
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Just out of curiosity, before beginning to work with AE did you read any tutorial manuals, such as the excellent Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Chris and Trish Meyer – or did you sort of just jump in, figuring “how hard can it be?”
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Darby, thanks for taking the time to continue this dialogue. Obviously I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with AE’s handling of this kind of footage, but thanks to your explanation it makes more sense. In one of my first posts in this thread, I used the phrase ‘pixel aspect creation‘ when i meant correction. I’m sure that contributed to a lot of the initial confusion, and I apologize.
I guess it’s still a bit tough to accept that in order to work correctly with this footage from now on – without an HD monitor -I can only view the footage in the comp as either squished or aliased. My pick.
I don’t find anything ghastly about AE. I’ve used it and loved it for seven years now. I just wish AE’s pixel aspect correction looked as crisp and antialiased as it does in the native apple appications.