Kevin Camp
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you shouldn’t have to worry about any pulldown, unless andrew rendered everything in 24p and then added to the pulldown to get 30i, but i can’t believe he would do that. although, for you that would be better, once you removed the pulldown, you’d have 24p and that would be an easy decision to reinterpret as 25p… but since i’m pretty sure his footage is 30p, i think your heading in the right path (although there may be better plugins to change the frame rate, but timewarp isn’t bad).
now, the hd render times… i assume that there must be some hd comps in the package too, that you are wanting to convert to sd? you may need to make a decision about how you are going to convert the frame rates for all the clips (at least all the clips in a given comp), since they will need to match the newly converted comp.
i think duplicating the hd comp and then precomping the footage layers in to individual precomps (leaving attributes in the original comp). then you’ll need to change the indivual precomp’s to sd comp settings and ‘scale to fit’ the footgage to the comp. then you can prerender all the precomps.
you should now have all the footage for one of the hd comps rendered and replaced as sd footage… change that hd comp to sd settings, and you may need to change any solids to fit he new sd comp size too.
you can make a decision at this point about how to adjust the frame rate. set your sd comp setting to 25 fps… now, you can simply apply the ez framerate converter preset (mentioned previously) to each clip to conform the 30p footage to the 25p comp, or you can set the interpret footage settings for the sd clips from 30 to 25 (if the comps loop, you will need to adjust the lengths of the sd comps to match the new lengths of the slower sd clips).
either way, your new sd comp should render much faster than the hd comp.
Kevin Camp
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qt ‘get movie info’ may give you the audio rate. but i think you may be best off separating the audio like dave suggested. especially since you’re not seeing any other render issues.
Kevin Camp
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i can’t send the project (at home now)… the shadows in my test comp were 100% (as darby mentioned).
but i was also thinking about possible issues with opengl. is opengl enabled in the previews preference? if so try disabling it. you may also want to check the advnced tab in the your comp setings and make sure you’re not using opengl there for 3d rendering.
Kevin Camp
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yeah, i’ve done it, and it worked fine. the back layer and the front most layer were completely black, only the middle layer showed a spotlight. that’s why i was trying to help you troubleshoot your problem.
Kevin Camp
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actually not just 3d but also have accept shadows ‘on’
Kevin Camp
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how about the layers that are receiving the light that is passing through the other layers, are they 3d also?
Kevin Camp
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this is also why when you start a 24p project you should stay 24p until you’re done… don’t shoot 24p to tape, then capture that 30i -24p-with-a-pulldown footage and edit it with out first removing the pulldown. and just remove it at capture. then when you add effects you won’t need to remove the pulldown if it was removed at capture and it edited as 24p. you’ll render out effected footage as 24p that will be imported and edited as 24p. a 24p project should never get converted to 30i until it’s finished.
and if you needed to add true 30i to a 24p project, well you shouldn’t have even started trying to do 24p in the first place.
24p isn’t really the problem, it’s when you try to work with it as 30i that it becomes a problem. just work with it as 24p, ignor broadcast standard 29.97 until you need to go to tape (or broadcast playout device).
Kevin Camp
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a co-worker of mine has experienced a stange issue with the shift key getting stuck in windows, where it would get locked after typing with the shift key down for long periods of time (don’t ask me why she doesn’t use the caps lock). it would then effect other software, like photoshop, etc. and the only way we’ve found to unstick it was to reboot.
Kevin Camp
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no problem… what else are a bunch of people who are bored at work supposed to do all day, anyway?
Kevin Camp
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you’re talking about the phase issue that you see when a crt tv’s or montior’s refresh rate doesn’t jive well with the shutter speed of the camera and you see a dark band repeatedly move down the screen?
i think all you really need to do is create a loop of a solid that is about one fifth of the comp’s height that moves down the screen over about 2 seconds or so. drag that into your video screen comp adjust opacity, maybe blending mode and you shold be getting pretty close.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW