Jon Geddes
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Whatever machine is faster is the one you want to do the encoding on. You will want to encode to H264 format within encore or with Adobe Premiere. Encore can get very picky about the files being blu-ray compliant, and usually encoding in a different program will cause it to re-transcode it in encore. H264 encoding takes forever, probably 10X longer than mpeg2 encoding (over 24 hours for an hour of video). Author it on the faster computer, if that happens to be the avid system, then do it. You can then create a Blu-ray image and burn it with nero on the other system without any problems.
Jon Geddes
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I think the effect he is looking for is described in this tutorial…
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earthquake_with_32bpc/
(yet another video copilot tutorial)
It explains how to convert 8-bit footage into 32-bit which causes the lights to streak naturally with motion. Then again I could be wrong and he could be looking into how to create those huge timelapse streaks of light which would be in the other tutorial mentioned.
Jon Geddes
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I’m glad I could solve your problem. No prizes necessary.
Jon Geddes
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Also if you have any audio playing in the background, the audio will start over each time you move to the next button.
Jon Geddes
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So basically your precomp is too small for your main composition. An easy way to fix that is to change the size of the composition that the smoke is in. Open it up, press Ctrl + K, and change the size to whatever it needs to be so it doesn’t get cut off in the main comp. It can be any size, 4000 x 4000 if necessary (or more)
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Try and find where the problem is coming from. Is it from after effects or the codec. To determine this, render as quicktime movie using the animation codec @ full quality. Bring that into avid and see if the text still has low quality. If it still looks bad, the problem is with how after effects is rendering it. Also make sure its not something simple like a preview setting in avid that is set to half quality.
Jon Geddes
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That should yield decent results by placing the HD comp in an SD one and scaling it down. You can also scale it down in the render settings. You can add the HD comp to the render queue, then in the export settings scale it down to the desired size with scale quality set to High. Make sure you are using a decent codec (nothing windows/microsoft based). If the results are still not up to your standards, you can scale it down in a program like Virtual Dub. Export from After Effects in uncompressed AVI, import into virtual dub, apply the resize filter, set filter mode to Lanczos3, maybe even add a slight sharpen filter after that (no more than 10). Virtual dub is a free program by the way.
Jon Geddes
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1st:
Set the number of times the menu loops to 1, instead of forever. If it loops forever it will never reach its end action.2nd:
This feature is not supported by Encore.Jon Geddes
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I have never used Andreamosaic before, but I did look at the screenshots. Based on the sample they showed, the image pattern appeared to be brick-like, where every row is offset from the row above it. Not sure if you can or did change that so all the images line up in a grid pattern, since the card dance effect will need to have them all aligned. Also make sure your comp is square pixels, I’ve had undesirable results with the card dance effect when my pixel aspect ratio was not 1:1.
Jon Geddes
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Make sure you have the latest version of Daemon Tools. Also, it could be your software player. Like Joe said, XP doesn’t recognize Blu-ray disc format, so trying to view the contents in windows explorer/ My Computer will give you an error.
I use Power DVD 8, which supports mounted blu-ray images. I believe older versions are not able to play images. As long as your software is up to date and capable of playing Blu-ray, you should have no problems. Your monitor also has to support blu-ray (HDCP compliant).
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com