Kevin Camp
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did you enable ausio in the output module?
ae doesn’t automaticly render audio, even when it is present in the comp… when you ‘make movie’ click the output module (probably says lossless). that opens the output module settings… at the bottom are the audio options. enble render audio, and set the appropriate audio rate (same as source rate). you should get audio in your render.
Kevin Camp
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whenever you use a lossy compression, like dv, you will lose some quality. hdv is a highly compressed codec, it is actually more compressed than dv25 (standard dv) and the data rate is actually lower than dv25… so, i’m not sure how much you would be losing by rendering to dv, it may not be very much.
you can render out to a couple of codecs… maybe try dv, photojpeg, and uncompressed. bring those back into ae, drop them in the same comp and toggle between them to see the differences. if you have to edit in dv, then rendering to the native dv codec that your nle works with maybe a good option.
can your camera shoot in sd? you might just want to shoot sd for now if your not ready for hd… you may be able to use a better compression codec, like dv50, if you shoot standard def. and you wouldn’t need to use ae to downconvert your hd (saves time and disk space). but i don’t know the specifics of your setup or reaasons for your workflow.
Kevin Camp
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motion blur in ae works quite well and looks quite natural. however, it works on layers that have parameters that have keyframed changes (like key framing a postion, or rotation change).
standard motion blur won’t work on endered or recorded footage. for that you would need to try effects like frame blending, echo, etc to composite other frames to try and mimic motion blur, and you’ll probably ned to help it a bit with a directional blur too.
however, re:vision has a very good effect called reel smart motion blur (rsmb) that can generate a very realist motion blur from rendered footage, and may give you good results at a fraction of the render time that 3d motino blur may take, if you want to spend some money. you might try downloading the demo and see how it works for you. i like it, especially for adding motion blur to 3d renders.
Kevin Camp
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check your video preview pref in ae… if you have an ouput device other than computer monitor selected, make sure that output during previews also has mirror on computer monitor checked.
if you don’t need any other output device (other than computer monitor), just select that as the output device, and that should work too.
Kevin Camp
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i’m pretty sure that the computer won’t be a problem… it’s the os and quicktime version that i’d be concerned about. you might check out adobe to see if there are any quicktime version requirements/concerns.
i will say that the render engine has been updated since 5.5, so 7 will render mcuh quicker. but you may want to wait for ae cs3 (8.0). the new cs3 render engine will use all you processing cores… even with 7, most effects are not multi-processor aware. with 4 processors, cs3 would be a big benenfit to you and worth the money.
Kevin Camp
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i would try to get the gif into another format, as mentioned before. tiff, targa, png and psd all support transparency, if necessary, and support a larger number of colors than gif (which may be part of your problem).
the audio issue seems pretty strange…. i will say that you’re usually better off keeping your audio separate from you video, and keeping your audio uncompressed (wav or aiff). can you use an editing program to separate your audio and export as a wav or aiff?
Kevin Camp
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make sure you are running the latest version… 7.01 i think.
first, are you opening ae from the application or by opening a project? try opening ae from the application icon (or dock, etc). sometimes if you open a bad project, or a project that tries to load a bad effect that can cause the crash, but ae itself may be ok.
second, go into the the library>quicktime folder and pull all of the components out (don’t throw them away, just move them out). do the same for the users>[username]>library>quicktime. don’t touch the system>library>quicktime folder. this will remove any third party codecs that may cause problems. if it works, add a few components back at a time, until you find the one that’s bad. delete it and see if you can download a newer version that will work.
remove the ae prefs from the users>[name]>library>prefs folder… its somewhere in an adobe folder in the prefs folder.
Kevin Camp
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either should work fine… for me, that decision depends largely on the movement in the project. if there is a lot of movement (and the destination is interlaced) then i usually render fields, if the movement is more subtle, then i render progressive.
in your case, if the projection screen is on the large side and people may be close to it, and the movement isn’t too fast, you might want to render progressive, since the enlarged scan lines will be more appearent and possibly distracting. but you could always try both if you have the time.
Kevin Camp
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you are probably rendering to a codec that is uncompressed or losslessly compressed, so your files are very large and the data rate to play the files in realtime exceeds the limits of your hard drive.
that’s usually not much of a problem, since those types of codecs are designed to maintain quality while going between ae and an nle, dvd authoring software or other compression utility, to reach the final destination. they are called intermediate codecs, and while you won’t be gaining quality in you hdv footage, you won’t be losing any quality by recompressing the footage to transport it to another piece of software.
what is your final destination?
Kevin Camp
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if you are just color correcting you wouldn’t need to deinterlace… but if you wer going to manipulate the scale or vertical postion of the footage, or use effects for keying, bluring or most other effects, you should deinterlace… its easy, ae often does it automaticly, but you can check by selecting the footage in the project window, choose file>interpret footage>main and then choose separtate fields (with the correct order). that’s it.
now to render with fields back in, send the comp tothe render queue, click the render settings and choose field render with the correct dominance.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW