John Mcgeoch
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Hi Alan – just went through the PI route with a 720P file via PI Render and got it to work. Somehow getting it to recognise the Alpha by going straight to PI Render the time before seems to have kicked off recognition of the codec and it`s Alpha – so great and thanks for your all help, best wishes John
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Hooray again! Getting closer! It does indeed work if the project is loaded into PI render separately, once again the `save alpha` box is on the same page as the lagarith code and not one step before it and it works straight away. This is better for me than PNG sequences with all the attendant processing and should the route through PI itself prove impossible is at least a reasonable workaround. I`ll perservere a bit more in PI itself. What happens on your machine if you try with a 1920 x 1080 project? Do you get the same problem with your Lagarith codec? Thanks for the help so far, best wishes John
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Aha yes that looks like it , no problem without PI Render perhaps because the `save alpha` box comes after the lagarith selection with the rRGBA enabled and in PI Render it comes a step before it? Problem is of course is that I`m mostly working in HD or at least 1024 x 768. Is there a workaround? cheers John
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Cheers Alan – I`ll try that but I have already checked the RGBA in Lagarith and I use it all the time in after effects. I`ll try the png sequence, it`s just a bit messier than a single lagarith file ……………. so I just did all that and yes I can do a PNG sequence but it is much less convenient – it has to be imported as a folder, put in a seperate composition, after effects has to be told how long to make each picture, overlap etc and then the composition has to be imported into the composition you wanted the effect in in the first place or re-rendered as a lagarith with alpha for use and future resource. With a Lagarith + alpha I could just render it and plonk it straightaway where I wanted it. I just can`t get the avi selection to come up with a save alpha button even though on the next page Lagarith remains checked with the RGBA. It`s obviously not getting through somehow – anything I could try? As an aside I also use the DXV codec a lot which also has transparency. DXV though is in a Quicktime wrapping, will PI support Quicktime at all? Thanks for your help, John
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If I encode in DV the encoder always encodes in NTSC even if I chnage the setting and Apply it – it also seems to be rendering in square pixels as the render is too narrow for a PAL DV project in After Effects as well.
Also why can it not remember the last project setting as I always have to change it to PAL DV at 25 frames a second.
Finally is there any chance of the facility to render the Stage ouput to a second monitor, rather as VJ programs do. This would enable Particle Illusion to be a very cool live tool too as well as give a useful facility to view the stage better and have just a preview on the main monitor leaving much more room for the working timeline etc.
Great program – best wishes John McGeoch
PS – I have tried sending this message through the support form but it just gets bounced back.