Jon Geddes
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Unfortunately not for Blu-Ray output, only regular DVD. Thats odd that you have a disc at that capacity. It’s pretty standard that single layer BD-R’s are 25GB. You will have to manually set the encoding bitrate in your situation.
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I don’t think Encore 1.5 had playlists… did it?
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Have you used a bitrate calculator yet? If not, this is the one I occasionally use:
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
You will have to put it on a dual layer disc (DVD9). I recommend Verbatim 2.4x. As for the bitrate calculator, I recommend going just under what it says you can encode it at. So if it says 5976 kbits/s, I would do it at 5800 kbits/s (5.8 mbits/s)
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H.264 is a better format. The quality is better, and you can compress it more without degrading quality that much. We just recently put 3 hours of HDV (1440×1080 29.97fps) on a single layer BD-R @ ~18 Mbps. Thats about the lowest bitrate you want to have, as it was right around the lower threshold of our quality standards. I would suggest keeping the bitrate between 20 – 25 mbps if possible. Any higher and you could have problems on some players since burned bluray media can’t maintain the same high bitrates of pressed media.
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I’ve never had an issue like that with any of my projects that I’ve sent off to replication. Its possible that you don’t have a chapter point in the “sweet spot” where it needs to place the layer break on your extremely full image. My recommendation to avoid all the headaches is to re-encode your video at a slightly lower bitrate, allowing more buffer room on the disc.
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bogiesan,
If you feel I have belittled you, I am sorry. I had no intentions of doing so. I was only pointing out that there was an equally simple way to achieve a more realistic reflection.
I have recently done a green screen project where I was in the exact same predicament (group of people dancing at different depths). Budget was extremely small for the post-production, so I ended up flipping the image on the x-axis, positioning it a little high so there weren’t huge gaps between the people further back in z-space, and blurring it a lot so you couldn’t really notice the problem. Rotoscoping was out of the question for the budget we were on.
Jon Geddes
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I’m sorry bogiesan but that image you displayed is not a natural reflection. It is true that the letters are mirrored just as they should be, but if you ever studied a reflection in real life, you would notice that its not distorted like your image’s reflection is (unless of course the reflective surface is curved/distorted). That distortion cannot be corrected by placing the light in a different place, since the image is being projected on the floor, thus causing it to get closer to the camera towards the bottom of the frame and distort. Any rotation in 3D space would cause it to look even more unnatural.
The closest way to get an accurate reflection in after effects is to duplicate & flip the image on the x-axis, and add an adjustment layer (with nothing applied to it) just above the floor layer, forcing the reflection to render on top of the floor, even though it is below it. Then you can apply a fast blur, linear wipe(feathered, 180 degrees), and adjust opacity of the reflection.
Jon Geddes
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Yes, if you have any adjustment layers in the composition, it will render everything below the adjustment layer first, then everything above, regardless of the z-space. Also, if you have any layer styles applied to any of the layers, it will also create a problem with the order in which it renders things. Make sure to clear layer styles and turn off any adjustment layers to see if that solves the problem. If you do have a layer style applied, you might have to precompose that layer in order to get it to render properly.
Jon Geddes
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bogiesan’s suggestion will not look like a natural reflection, since it would be projected on the floor instead of being flipped on the x axis. But he is right about separate alphas. There is no plugin or program that will do what you want if all those people are on a single video layer. You will have to separate them out onto individual layers (probably with garbage masks/rotoscoping) and apply the reflection to each layer.
Jon Geddes
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I’ll let him respond as well, but here is my input:
It’s not about which one is better. RAW is clearly a better format to work with. Just like 4k HD is better than HDV video. However, the question is, what is best for you. You can still get pretty good results using just jpeg from the camera, but if you are a perfectionist and really know what you are doing, you would be using RAW. If the project doesn’t demand the highest quality standards, then there is no need for RAW. Learning how to make good raw adjustments, like a professional photographer would, takes some time. Here are some questions you have to ask yourself:
-How much difference will the final product look when comparing RAW to jpeg? The answer to that will depend on how good you are at making raw adjustments.
-How much time are you willing to spend learning how to make proper raw adjustments?
-Is the amount of time it takes worth it for this project?You might get the gist of it by reading some tutorials, but it could take weeks of practice on hundreds of images to truly get professional results. There are some guidelines but its more of an art.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com