Jon Okerstrom
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Hi Scott,
Tell us more about the system you’re using.
In general, I suppose this could be a corrupt preferences file. You might want to try removing the software and associated files and doing a clean re-install.
Jon
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Yes, you can loop flag videos, though it’s not an exact frame-to-frame loop.
Watch a few seconds of a flag animation with a constant wind speed and you’ll see areas where the motion is close to matching. Use a short dissolve to help the transition between your flag movies. Replicate to get the length you need. I seem to recall Zax posting a more precise explanation here a while back. If I can find it in the archives, I’ll post it in this thread.
Jon
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Hi Suzzie,
A couple of thoughts about this.
First, the data rate of the movie with the animation codec is a lot compared to dv’s 3.5 mb/second. Your hard drive setup may be a limiting factor. You can minimize the performance hit by keeping your work files on a drive other than the drive where your ap lives. Using a fast drive and being sure it’s defragmented can also help. Real time response also depends on your processor speed and data pipeline, obviously. Having a lot of ram, rather than relying on scratch disks also helps. Your system may or may not be capable of what you’re asking from it.
Second, Premiere is crunching more data when it computes the interaction of the alpha channel on the other layers in your timeline. There’s no getting around that. In after effects, we can speed up the response time by rendering in draft mode or at something less than full resolution during the test phase of buildling the project. You may be able to do something similar in Premiere as you build your project and do your best quality rendering at output time.
Jon
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One more thought, Thew,
You may be looking at draft mode (built for fast rendering). Toggle your rendering quality in the AE timeline to best and your Os will look much better.
You also have sliders Serge mentioned to control the smoothness of both draft and best quality rendering. The smaller the number the smoother the curves.
Hope this helps.
Jon
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Hi Laurie,
The material set-up window you’re talking about works with native Invigorator objects. If you’ve selected an imported object, then clicked the material set-up window, I don’t believe you’ll see the cross section of the object, because you can’t split materials for imported objects in the same way you can split material assignments for native Invig objects and text.
Does this help?
Jon
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Hi D.G.,
Then I’d double check field order, frame rate to be sure they’re compatible with ntsc. You might also try smoother antialiasing settings to soften the hard edges that may “ring” or flicker. It might help to know exactly what is flickering… very small text or very fine horizontal lines have a habit of doing this… red colors are prone to bleeding…. there are other gotchas… but more detail might help find yours quicker.
Jon
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Hi Jarane,
So far as I know, it’s no longer available from Total Training. Your best bet might be the COW classifieds or ebay. If you have a specific challenge, let us know and we’ll try to help.
Jon
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Hi Jay,
You’re on the right track using a lossless format to create your intermediate movie. If you used a file format that compressed the video using a lossy codec, you would introduce artifacts that may affect the final output. These artifacts can be especially problematic in keying situations. (Try keying mini-dv video if you want a headache. It’s highly compressed.)
I typically use the Animation+ codec for my animation work movies. It creates very large Quicktime files with alpha channels, and they work great with Final Cut.
One other thought, be sure your file import settings are correct in whatever editing application you use. After Effects, for example, allows you to control how alpha channels are interpreted for each clip.
Jon
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Hi D.G.
A couple of thoughts about flickering:
1. Rendering settings and intended output matter. Are you getting flickering watching an interlaced animation? It won’t look right on a computer monitor, but so long as the field order and frame rate are correct, it’ll look fine on a television.
2. Antialiasing settings. Using a softer setting may look too soft on a computer monitor, but on an interlaced monitor, it works wonders.
Does this help? If not, be more specific with your situation and we may be able to help.
Jon
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Hi beni,
I’m just guessing, but suspect you may be moving the camera and objects in the set-up window after setting keyframes for the camera and sets, in the scene preview window. They’re two different work areas for two different purposes.
It may help us if you give us a step-by-step list of what you’re doing that causes unexpected results. We can try the same steps and troubleshoot for you.
Jon