Jon Barrie
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Hi Matt,
Mike is right about QT being a codec that won’t stretch out the anamorphic 16×9 clip to widescreen. So this means you need to actually do some math. Figure out the 16×9 square pixel resolution. I work in PAL so 720×576 (4:3 or Anamorphic 16:9) would actually be 1024×576 as 16:9 sq pixel in say a QT codec.
NTSC would be 720×486/480 becomes 864×486 or 853×480. Export at the Sq Pxl res and tell it to have a Sq Aspect ratio. It should come out properly then.
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I have to agree with Mike. It’s not the size of your image its the res. If you blow up a 72dpi image from 720×480 video to 1200×900 that doesn’t mean you have more detail in your pic. Start with the highest possible image resolution and dpi (300). Then you can bring in a MAX image size of 4096×4096. This image can be zoomed into about 4.5 times before you lose quality in an SD res project. So resize your photos to keep maintain scale ratio to be max high or wide 4096×4096 (4:3 would be 4096×3072)
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The image of the BG you are seeing is probably in the Alpha Channel of the file you’ve rendered from LW. I’ve worked with LW alot and know it can imbed BG info in the A-Channel. Try telling the clip to ignore the Alpha channel. See if that helps.
(Right click the clip in the Project panel>Interpret Footage>Ignore Alpha)
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Jimmy,
Sounds like you’ve got a slight nightmare here. Did you say that this was working before you upgraded the BlackMagic drivers? If this is the case and you have reinstalled the older drivers and your problems are still there or worse…different, I know this is hard, but you may have to uninstall the BlackMagic Card Software. Try to reinstall/repair install Premiere Pro. Then reinstall the BM Card. Pretend you are installing everything for the first time. This means you might have to uninstall and reinstall everything. Repair might not fix the driver error, because it’s not overwriting the file causing the issues.
I’ve had prob’s like this with the Matrox Cards. Pretending to install from scratch always fixes it. Hope it does with yours.
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Hi Erich,
The most straight forward way to archive video footage is to put it on an external Hard Drive. Gig per dollar in Hard disks Vs DVDs is no longer a cost effective contest. Buy an External Case you can open up and replace the hard drive yourself. Buy a Massive Gig Hard drive and put that in. Format it. Copy everything to it. Once it’s full. (Backed up many items) take the Hard Drive out of the case. Label it and whats on it somewhere (XL spreadsheet). Store the Hard Drive somewhere cool like a cupboard. That’s it. DVDs degrade with time and Hard Drives allow you to play from them when you need to use the footage again. Been doing it this way for several years. No better solution out there. Hope this helps.
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Hi Paul,
I teach FCP and i have to say it’s falling behind in the race of NLEs.
I had the exact problem with importing an AE animation with the animation codec in a QT wrapper. I dont know why FCP cant deal with it? All I can really say is that if you are serious about using AE and editing. Get onto the CS3 production bundle.
You do want the best quality clips before outputting to DVD. DV is not the best – there are worse codecs, but if u must use FCP (coz u just bought it) try using the uncompressed AVI wrapper.
(a wrapper is the .mov or .avi file type the codec is the way the data is compressed and decompressed inside the wrapper)
hope u find a solution, but Premiere Pro is many steps ahead of FCP now. It seems Apple have been way too busy making iPhones and iPods.
Jon 🙂
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I had a problem with a repaired XP and my PPro2 wouldn’t load up… I did everything to get it running again. It would hang in the splash screen when it hit the Quicktime drivers. I then realized after hours of wasted reinstalling that I hadn’t reinstalled Quicktime yet!
If your problem is at splash when it hits the QT installers/drivers:
reinstall QT.Hope that helps. – Jon