Jon Barrie
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Is there a way to send the AE file to me too? I work in PAL and haven’t seen this issue so I’d be keen to know what’s happening with your project settings.
– Jon 🙂 -
Hey Bill,
There is no shortcut to send video layers to the bottom, but yes placing a clip/matte/image under a video track will act like PShop under the layer above it. Keying will use this process to show something underneath it.
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He means PProCS3 the time-remapping is based on the AE one. You can ramp the speed up and down inside the same clip in PProCS3.
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Removing grain in the Black is usually done with colour correction (grading) by crushing the blacks. Levels could be the easiest way to do it. That won’t take anywhere near as long as the noise reduction. If it’s shot right there is no need to grade only correct the unmatching colour in shots with colour correction/match. The red line means it needs to be rendered to see it in full quality and all frames per second.
Enter is the render key. When rendered the red line becomes green. You don’t need the green to export.
– Jon 🙂
(I’d like to know how it would go if you asked it to render again no noise red’ and some level adjustments to crush the blacks instead at 100% with a black border covering the imperfections of the video) -
Films are always shot with lots of light and bright and then colour corrected and graded down. That’s how they dont have grain. It appears your camera settings were not set properly. Indoor light open iris, shutter at normal, with a little 3dB gain should yeild a great result, nice and bright. Unless the place has bad light. No interior lights and has only a few lights there. You will need a light or two then.
It does look really dark… like the ND filter was on.
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Hahaha… 2 secs, that’s funny.
If you have not rendered the red bars on the top of the time line (effects/fades) they will still be there and export properly – its actually faster to export an unrendered timeline than if you render then ask it to export.
I didn’t realize you have noise reduction! That’s whats killing everything. The 102% is probably not that big a deal, but the noise reduction is not recommended as it will soften the details… yuck.
I doubt you’ve done any damage to you CPU. They switch off before they get too hot (reset or freeze) to keep it safe.
– Jon
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DO NOT STOP THE RENDER. YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING! 1st PASS WILL NOT BE SAVED ANYWHERE!
2nd pass will take about the same time as the 1st in my experience, at about 90mins the time it guesses will be about the same, might get shorter as it goes on, but that will take a long time to get there.
If you want to remove any nasties or imbalanced black edging why don’t you try to cover it will a psd file over the top of the whole timeline. That will clean it up. I find LCD still cuts off some edge like “old” CRT TV. Make the edges even and if someone has a cheap TV that shifts the image, stuff them. That’s their problem not yours. Web stuff will look okay with a black trim. The size increase is killing your poodie. A Laptop is not made for rendering, esp a Duo. You need a core2duo at least to do serious chip based rendering. A P4 3.4 Desktop would roughly equate to the low end rendering speeds of a mid ranged Core2duo.
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720p – deinterlacing will do nothing. Frame blending will blend a ghosting of the next frame into the one you see, so that is what will make it look “soft” turning that off should help a bit. However you are limited with the progressive footage. I find it tends to not slow mo as well as interlaced. I guess it’s got to do with interlaced actually scanning twice as much as progressive…50i = 25fps and 24P = 29.97 with pulldown or 60i = 30fps. Hope it looks okay for you with what you have. If not I suggest testing the AE slow mo to try and invent pixels between frames. (Time Warp… i think.. you have options for pixel/frame interpreting)
Keep this in mind: Film shot at 24p slowed to 12p looks jerky no matter what, because you are holding the image twice as long on screen as normal. Slow mo for film is always shot at least twice the fps (48 or more). So you aren’t actually slowing down the footage that was shot for slow mo, just showing 24fps instead of the 48 or more it was shot at – appearing slow motion.
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What format is you footage, DV, HDV, Full HD…?
What is the frame size i guess is whats really important here…
Anamorphic means the image is actually 4:3 and stretches out to 16:9. So a circle would be shot and look tall and oval – when stretched out to wide-screen it will look like a circle again.
The pixel size is what is dictating the aspect ratio on export. They need to match properly.
If you are going out to DivX, make sure you set the pixel shape to a native 16:9 square pixel aspect ratio. Like 1024×576 or 720×405 at sq. aspect.
I don’t make DivX clips so I don’t know the best settings to go with…
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50% with PPro should look ok. Are you de-interlacing the clip? That will probably help. (right click clip in Timeline> field options)
If the interlacing is the wrong way that will look really bad… Deinterlacing should fix it or swap field order. (same as above access clicks)
Ahh… what about blend frames on the clip, try turning that off. (right click clip in timeline).
AE I usually use the time remapping…
Can you describe what does the final slow mo look like?
– Jon 🙂