Jon Barrie
Forum Replies Created
-
If they are BetaSP analogue that could be it?
-
Right click on the source monitor and see the quality setting…
Right click on the program monitor and see the quality setting..
If they are on something other than High that will give you a different sharpness. Lower or Auto settings compensate for no frames lost RT view back.
– Jon 🙂 -
If it’s inconsistent then I’m not sure the file is the issue.
Is there a way to make it happen? If not…
Your RAM memory could have a leak. Our tech guy found that one of the sticks of memory was faulty, ran some download-able test, we replaced it and never had that issue again.
Did you recently upgrade the mem? Have had it for a while? have two brands in it?
– Jon -
Don’t get a compressed format and then compress it again. That will degrade the quality of the image when you make the encoreDVD product.
If they insist on it being QT ask for uncompressed. If they can do AVI – uncompressed again. The lease amount of compression for the original clip is always best.
H.264 is heavily compressed and looks better than MPEG2 in most cases, but compression is not good if it has to recompress.
– JOn -
Are you backing up on the same drive it is coming from or to a separate drive?
That might make a difference. (read write speed should make the process quicker too)
Alternatively:
1. Start a new project (same settings)
2. Import the finished project
3. Run media manager
4. Send it to a sep drive.
– Jon -
If the footage is PAL and the new project you import the project into is then you won’t have the interlacing issues of the original NTSC project which also runs at a different frame rate. The frame size should be right too. It should all workout for you if your footage is captured PAL.
– JOn -
If it is the same frame that causes the error I fear it may have some kind of error in it. Maybe the alpha channel is incorrect or something.
Try these steps:
1. If you have rendered that section delete the render and try to export again.
2. I hope you have after effects…
2a – Import it into after effects as a sequence (tick box).
check the alpha channel for the prob frame against the one’s next to it.
2b – If all seems ok, render out the section where the prob occurs. (Set the work area at a key image to start so you can sync it easier in PPro).
2c – Import that to PPro and replace that section (overlay) where the tga seq is.
3. I used to work in 3d TGA image seq a lot and sometimes it would drop have to start and the frame we picked up from was not quite done. May have to ask for that frame to be re-rendered and replaced in the seq folder. It will update next time you open the PPro project.– Jon
-
Hi Mike,
The Uncompressed setting doesn’t contain the millions+ colors so that won’t have the alpha channel embedded. Using Microsoft AVI compressor none will. It should work. I did a test and it worked fine for me.
– Jon 🙂 -
Don’t deinterlace the footage. That will cut the res in half making saw edges because there is information missing.
I just followed your process and it looks perfect on mine. Make sure you are looking at High Quality in the monitor (right click)
Make the graphic in illustrator and there should be 0 prob’s as it keeps the image in vectors, should never jaggie.
I did that and made it a PNG file, imported that (square pixel ratio, 72dpi) If you want to be sure it comes out clean use an image with 300dpi you can zoom then.
Illustrator is the way to go. But Deinterlacing will only make jaggies.
– Jon -
Try exporting a frame comparison, export a frame of the no color correct and then apply it and export another frame same CTI position. Open then two frames in AE. Lie them on top of each other and apply the difference overlay to the top layer. You should see the difference in the hue, and if edge quality is different that will show it too.
Are you outputting with component (R G B dedicated channels) to your monitor?
– Render that clip out of AE and replace it in PPro.
– Could you see the difference in sharpness? when in AE?
What kind of footage are you using? Shot originally on Beta? HDV, DVCAM, DV?