Kevin Camp
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i’ve hacked some apps before to change out graphics before… you can right-click on the ae application icon and choose show package contents. somewhere in there (probably contents/macos…) should be an aiff file (maybe another audio type?), if you replace that, it should replace that sound. there may be specifics on audio rate and file type, the file would need the same name.
i can’t actually read japanese, but i think this is outlined at ayatoweb.com. i think he also steps through changing the splash page in his ae lab section.
Kevin Camp
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there is no reason why the lossless animation codec would make the footage blury… it does not change any pixel data. there is some thing else going on…
are you trying to export your render? with a few exceptions, you will be far better off rendering your comps from the render queue. to send your comp the the render queue open the comp and then choose either make movie or add to render queue from the composition menu.
read the help file or manual about using the render queue, but essentially you have three settings areas to work with. the first is the render settings. here you can set things like field rendering and some quality settings and overides. you can normally just leave it at ‘best’, you can also create new settings and save them, for instance you often render in fields, save it as a preset.
the second set of settings is the output module. here you would set the codec and file format, whether to render an alpha channel and how to handle audio. most will leave the default ‘lossless’ setting, sometimes modifying it to include alpha. these too can be saved as presets, if you find you are always modifying a setting to include alpha or audio or something, just save it to use over and over. you can also have multiple output modules for a single render, so in the time it takes to render a comp once you can create several different media files using different codecs or file formats.
the last setting is the file destination, where you will save the file. pretty straight forward.
there are also post render settings that can be very useful to automaticly import the render, or import and replace usage. you’ll find it useful as you use ae more….
if you use the default render queue settings (‘best’ and ‘lossless’) for a render you should get the highest quality render , it should not look blury, it should look exactly like it did in the ram preview.
Kevin Camp
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check the help menu in ae or pp for recommended workflow between the two (actually for encore too). it sounds like you can either import projects from one to the other or reference files.
if you were to do quicktime, the lossless animation codec is usually the one to choose. it can also include an alpha channel for compositing in other software.
Kevin Camp
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when i get a chance, i’ll do some testing with opengl on my macpro with cs3.
are you running the latest beta? adobe labs had released an update a bit ago…
Kevin Camp
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i’m not familiar enough with the pp-ae workflow, but, if you can get a reference movie or file as a go-between between apps you’re usually better off. you can save time rendering, conserve disk space and avoid compressing and/or recompressing footage.
Kevin Camp
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as a bto option from apple, it is inculded in the os. there is an osx update available (10.4.10), but i doubt that is the issue.
what is the problem you are seeing… i have the x1900 in a quad core macpro and haven’t seen any issues. this may be a setting in ae or just a bug in a beta application.
Kevin Camp
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there are several different dv codecs (avid dv, dvcpro, dvcpro50, quicktime dv, and more…) and many other intermediate codecs that could be used to go between different applications. most people will render to an uncompressed or lossless codec of image sequence out of ae, to maintain the highest quality and let the next application do the compressing as it needs (whether its an nle or dvd authoring app, etc.). this is due to different apps using different codecs… dvds use mpeg2, nle’s may use one of many dv variants or propriatary codecs, web apps may use streaming formats like flv, ram, wmv, etc. so you will eventually want to learn about codecs.
but to help you out now, there are a couple of ways to get get dv out of ae. one way is to export from the file menu as a dv stream. there are a few dv codecs you can choose, dv, dvcpro, dvcpro50, i believe. generally i would use export, but if you have problems getting dv back into your nle without the nle concerting it to it’s native dv codec, this sometimes works.
the prefered way would be to render it by choosing make movie or add to render queue from the composition menu, i think (i don’t have ae on this machine, sorry). generally, rendering is a better way to go, you have more render and output options. from the output module settings you may be able to choose the dv codec that you’re useing in premiere in one of two places. at the top of the settings window fromthe format pulldown there is a list of available formats. or, if quicktime is selected as the format, click the options button and find the dv codec from the pulldown in that window.
when using the render method, if you need audio in the render (it would be prefered to add the audio in the nle, but this is worth mention) you’ll also need to enable the audio render in the output module towards the bottom of the settings window. make sure you choose the smae audio rate as the source.
you’ll also have a choice of render with progressive (default) or with fields… click the render settings from the queue and set to render fields and the correct dominance (lower for ntsc dv).
Kevin Camp
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i assume they will use the digitized footage from the tape.
you may be able to have your film transfered to file (or image sequence) rather than tape (or in addition to, if you want a tape backup). that would save you the extra step of having to capture it from tape.
you may also be able to get higher resolution files if you are using image sequences from film than you would from tape, but you would need to talk to the film transfer company about what they offer.
Kevin Camp
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if you are on a mac, someone just last week found a fix for issues they had with those effects by installing the lates osx update (10.4.10). although i had no problems with those effects, ae7 and osx 10.4.9 together.
Kevin Camp
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that’s good, i don’t know what i’d do with half my day if i could be here at the cow.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW