Jonathan Kirsch
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Thanks, Simon. I was afraid of that.
Cheers.
Jonathan
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UPDATE:
Bringing the map in as a flattened layer really helped. Frames only taking about 4 seconds each rather than 2 minutes each. And, I don’t have the blue “noise” anymore! WOO-HOO!
Thanks again to everyone.
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-steve=o, Thanks for your reply.
Nothing under “map” layer”
Not duplicated.
Road lines are not merged…seperate illustrator layers. I could merge them, which i am currently experimenting with.
I re-posted the movie in a steppable format on yousendit.com…the link is in my second post.Thanks for the advice! I am truly thankful for these types of forums where everyone is willing to take time out of their busy day to help others. Hope I can get good enough where I can repay the favors!
Cheers,
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Hey, Bogie…thanks for the e-mail.
Yeah, it was foolish of me to ask why it took so long to render. Shoulda known better. I’ll try the blur…is that the DOF effect under “3D Channel”? There’s no lights on the comp…I just created the shadows by duping the spheres and using an effect to tilt them. The spheres are individual layers and were created in Photoshop (circle with gradien fill/pattern).
What I am trying now is bringing the map’s 20 layers in as footage (flattened) rather than a comp and just have that illustrator file, and 4 photoshop tiffs (the spheres/shadows), 1 text layer and 1 .mov (the flag). Hopefully that will help.
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OK, all…I’ve gotten some real good advice, thanks.
And just to clear something up…I usually don’t work in Flash, either. The only reason that 1st video is a .flv is because that’s how Photobucket compressed it. I always export for QuickTime. The original file was rendered uncompressed 8-bit for Quicktime. I know nothing about flash movies or compressing for flash. That’s why I reposted on yousendit.com because they upload the file exactly as is…not change it into something else. I don’t have my own website to post videos to (unfortunately) 🙂
Again, thanks to all that helped…I’ll be spending the day today trying to apply everything I’ve read and will post when I find the solution.
Jonathan
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Thanks to those who responded so quickly.
Mylenium…How can I change the compression/data rate? The map is a 3D layer. The pull-out has to be that short because I can’t really have a 4-second pullout just to make it balanced with the rest. Again, sorry if I’m not understanding anything correctly.
David…I’ll check to see if it was an erroneous 3D layer sticking out. The only blue I have is the background solid (which is not 3D…everything else is). Unfortunately, I don’t have a website that I can host it so you can step through it…but I’m uploading it to yousendit.com. You can download it there, and hopefully step through as a QT movie. Best I can do. Here’s the link: https://download.yousendit.com/1AD456DA7C11A9B4
Thanks again for your speedy replies…I know it’ll make me a better AE user.
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Forgot to add…I understand that the Digital Wisdom stuff are only JPGs…don’t know if you can keyframe them and animate them. Might only be able to do layers inside Illustrator and/or Photoshop, then do dissolves as “animation”. Hoping to find something cheaper than CWM and keyframeable.
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I’m not at a TV station. I produce educational/sales videos about the wineries (worldwide) that my company distributes. The maps aren’t the bulk of the video (although I try to have a map for each winery), rather they’re used as b-roll when the winemaker/owner is talking about the area. I thought about using CWM but in the stills version only and then try to animate them with zooms/dissolves…but I don’t know if they’re vector-based…it could be just like zooming in on Google Earth or something where the resolution goes bad after too much zooming. I’d go for the Google Earth Pro (~$600) but I don’t think the resolution is broadcast-quality…and the images (where available) are a couple years old at best.
I appreciate the above comments and welcome more ideas.
Thanks, all.
Jonathan
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Thanks, Captain.
I’ll try it out.