Jon Geddes
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It sounds like you are going about it the wrong way. Is there a reason you can’t apply the mask to the new door (revealing only the door on that layer), then applying the motion track to the position of that entire layer? The new door would of course be on the layer above the footage with the old door in it.
You wouldn’t even need a null object using the method above unless you planned on having several layers linked to the motion track movement. Please let me know if there is a reason you aren’t using this method.
Jon Geddes
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You must be careful when working with blending modes. They only work when you have color data beneath it to blend with. If you just have an alpha channel under it, it won’t work. You will have to key out the black (or apply a matte) and not just apply a blending mode to the layer. Good luck, I hope I have been helpful.
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It has nothing to do with the media used. We created an image, mounted the image, and played it back on the computer without ever burning. The problem existed even in the image, before it was burned (so no layer break was even present).
And yes, we use only verbatim 2.4x DL discs, even though thats not the problem.
Since your single timeline does not exceed 2 hours, it appears we could be having different problems. Yours could be the result of poor media, burning too fast, etc. When burning dual layer discs, it is always important to burn at the slowest speed possible (usually 2.4x). Also, some dvd players have issues with burned DL media.
Jon Geddes
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If all the curve adjustments are the same, then you can add an Adjustment Layer above all the layers, then apply the curves to the adjustment layer.
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Well, I’m assuming you have already keyframed it properly. You can adjust the ease-in and ease-out for the start and finish of the animation. Press F9 while selecting the keyframe, do that on each one. Once the motion is smoothed out with the keyframes, the only other way to adjust the smoothness of the motion is with motion blur. Adjusting the adaptive sample limit and samples per frame (up to 20 – 30) will give a much smoother motion blur for fast moving objects, and also take longer to render. And be sure you also have motion blur toggled for the specific layer you are working with. To get motion blur to work, you must toggle it on for the layer, and on in the comp window.
Jon Geddes
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Not confirmed by adobe that I know of (not many of them are), but by other users in the adobe user to user forums. I’ve seen the bug in every version (haven’t tried cs4 though), on multiple systems. I haven’t narrowed down the exact length of the timeline that causes the problem, but it is somewhere right around 2 hours (possibly exactly 2 hours). We’ve had several projects where the timeline went just over 2 hours (by just a few minutes) that were plagued with the problem. Some we had just under (by a few minutes) that did not experience the problem.
We tried:
– writing image and burning from a different app
– retranscoding the mpeg
– starting the encore project over completely from scratchI think we even tried combining 2 clips in a single timeline. Nothing worked. The only workaround was to split the video into 2 different timelines, and have the first timeline’s end action link to the beginning of the second timeline. Only downside is that the timecode on the dvd player will reset on the new timeline, and most players won’t support jumping back to the previous timeline when the chapter back button is pressed. It’s not ideal, but better than a dvd that can’t be delivered to a client.
Jon Geddes
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I’m sorry, what exactly do you mean by “signing” the footage. Because normally just one version of the video is needed. Subtitles are added as text, and not rendered into the actual video. If you need to add an end logo, that can be rendered separately and each video can go to it as an end action (or not with a different playlist). However if you are talking about a watermark of some sort, then yes, you would have to render that into the video.
If you can’t do it with one version of the video, then you might want to consider a dual layer. Once you start going past 1.5 hours, you really start to compromise quality on a single layer.
Jon Geddes
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I always have issues burning dual layer discs when the timeline exceeds 2 hours. Before the layer break it seems to skip backwards to a spot in the middle of the previous chapters, yet the timecode doesn’t change, nor do the chapters, so then all the chapters are off by 1 or 2. Then later in the disc it completely skips a chapter. It happened in CS2 and happens in CS3 (haven’t tried it in CS4 yet). The only work around was to keep the timelines under 2 hours by splitting it up into 2. End action of first half jumps straight to first chapter of second half, transition is pretty seamless (just like a layer break).
This problem is reproducible every single time and is considered a bug with Encore. Ever since encore has had the ability to burn dual layer discs, the problem has existed. I’m curious if they finally addressed it in the latest CS4.
Jon Geddes
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This effect is also extremely easy to create with Trapcode Particular. I’m sure it could also be done with CC Particle World. Emit particles from a point, set velocity to zero, crank the birthrate up, adjust opacity over time so it fades out as trailing particles get further from the lead particle, and keyframe the particle emitter to move where you want it (or even parent the emitter location to a null object). I would definitely recommend using a particle system if its feasible for your project.
Jon Geddes
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Even with the 3GB switch, a single program is still limited to 2GB. Thats where the multiprocessing comes in hand, as AE will launch additional processes in the background which can also use up to 2GB of ram.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com