[Kenny Mims]

Thank for response Roland.

Yes… I “boil things down” as best I can. PC’s for sure, and segment video lay-offs as well.

None the less…

AE/CS3 seems to want to “auto-save” at random increments.

I had ‘er set at 20 minutes… so naturally I am gauging my “minutes in front of monitor”
vs.
“minutes of my life I can never buy back”.

Seems like them “20 minutes” are occuring all to often.

Perhaps I need a vacation?

KM

[Kenny Mims]

Card dance.

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.

[Kenny Mims]

Hey bub, what size is your composition? 720×480? or 720×486?
You’re wotking in SD… right?

[Kenny Mims]

Stutters?

Do you mean like scan line flickering?

KM/LocomotionGraphics

[Kenny Mims]

Everything everybody said is plenty correct. You can also try pulling your luma down some, as well as making the image larger.

I use the interlace-flicker plugin, and adjust it according to the SCALE factor… following this formula:

.6 / SCALE FACTOR

example… if your image is 2880 pixels wide, and you fill the screen(720×480), that equals 25% SCALE FACTOR..so:
.6/.25= 2.4 pixel blur. If you are pushing on the image (zooming), use your keyframes to adjust the blur as you go.

example… image starts as 2880 filling the screen (25%) (keyframe start 2.4 pixel blur) and zooms in to 100%
.6/.25=2.4 >>>> .6/1=.6 pixel blur

Then things are nice and clear as you push in.

[Kenny Mims]

Hey Aharon, per your suggestion I made a nice little tutorial for my proceedure, but know how to submit this to you.

Please advise and thanks!

[Kenny Mims]

Yo there, I do this all the time, and have screwed it up more times than you can imagine.

I think I’ve got it right now.

The issue here is the color space YOU work in, and the exact translation back to an Avid System.

EXACTLY AS FOLLOWS:

1. Render your AE material as either ANIMATION, or Avid Meridien Uncompressed.
For the latter, select 601 colorspace (default)

2. Set your render to millions+ to include alpha channel

3. Import into Avid system at 1:1, 601 color , NO or EVEN field priority

This will preserve your original color levels, regardless of what they are.
In other words, if you have zero IRE blacks, they will still be zero (crush) in the Avid system.

You can go as bright as you want (AE goes to 255), but text at that level usually blooms on a CRT,
so try using 90% or 92%.

But, you can let all your flares and starbursts etc. go as bright as you want. Looks great!

Tell the Avid editor to pull up to HIS BLACK.

CAVEAT:
If your AE comp includes video that has already been pulled up (or clamped) @7%,
then be respectful and don’t use zero as your blackest black. Use closer to 7%. The it will look like what you designed
when returned to the Avid environment.

Otherwise, if the finishing engineer scales up the blacks, the already pulled up video blacks will look prety milky.

[Kenny Mims]

RE: Something I should mention is that keylight has some color correction tools hidden deep down in there. I’m curious if you tried those at all to counter the loss of green.

By all means we adjust all the knobs, but this is not so much a color correction issue as it is a color enhancement and
‘ever-er-out-er’.

I discovered this while compositing two groups of actors, shot at different times. One group had fresh makeup, the other group
had a man with minimal makeup, and boyhowdy was it apparent.

So, I fiddled around with a lotta stuff and found a method that worked!

MIMS/Locomotion

[Kenny Mims]

RE: ctrl+shift+left and right arrows moves that way 10 frames at a time.

i find that trick useful often.

Often? Like about 25,000 times a day
KM

[Kenny Mims]

Just went through this exact situation.
This applies to 4:2:2 uncompressed 720×486 video (as opposed to DV, which we avoid whenever possible)

As so:

AVID > AE: export Same as Source/601. AE comp size D1. Set clip ODD field first

Do your AE thing

AE>AVID: render as Animation or Avid Meridien Uncompressed 601 (saves a little time in Avid import)

This will bring your work back in to the Avid environment exactly as you designed it.

REMEMBER: if you are including existing video that has already been clamped at 7% black,
(as opposed to just making ‘layovers’), you must make your art correspond to this.

Measure the black in the video, and make that value your black.

Otherwise the Avid editor will try to pull up , causing the existing (already pulled up) blacks to get pretty milky.

And… you can always put some bars on there to verify your levels.