Kevin Camp
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did you try putting the cc effects in from another version of ae?
months ago, when i asked cycore about when an update to the current free versions of their effects to work better on my intel mac, they said that it was an issue that adobe or apple needed to address. that lends me to believe that if they are bundled with ae-cs3 they will be the same effects that were bundled with ae7.
Kevin Camp
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i have a feeling that the footage was incorrectly converted back to 24p from 24pa. the hvx will shoot 24p straight, but if you have to shoot to tape a pulldown will be needed to get it to 29.97. the pulldown should then be removed when captured or at least before editing. this may not have been done, but by what you are saying, i think it is more likely that it was done incorrectly.
do you know if the tape was captured as a complete tape and then cut, or was each shot captured individually? when shooting with a pulldown, each shot should be captured individually to be able to remove the pulldown. and i believe this is true for advanced pulldown too.
Kevin Camp
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you can see how well opengl is supported by you card by going to the preview preference and clicking opengl info… that will give you a list of supported features. generally if all the features are not supported, i would disable opengl in favor of adaptive resolution, just uncheck the enable opengl box in the preview pref window.
Kevin Camp
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yeah, the cc effects will give you problems no matter what you do with your settings… i asked cycore about this problem and it didn’t sound like they were interested in rewriting the value added effects that are bundled with ae, they claimed apple and adobe needed to address the issue. they did however mention that the non-free hd versions were available and had been fixed.
you can use them, just save often.
Kevin Camp
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dv or dv50 should play fine on most computers, the data rates are within firewire standards and the files won’t be too large. mpeg-2 wouldn’t be a bad choice either… if it’s good enough for the dvd industry it should be good enough for most other people. however, a third party utility may create better quality mpeg-2s than premiere, do you have adobe’s dvd authoring software?
one other suggestion would be to work with progressive frames rather than interlaced. not only will it look better on a computer screen, but compression will usually have a less negative effect on image quality.
Kevin Camp
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are you using a easy setup in fcp for the dvcpro that you are shooting at? i’ve shot some hd on an hvx to p2 and had no problems importing the mxf files using the dvcprohd setup that cooresponded to the settings of my shoot (720 60p).
also at import of the p2 files, fcp transcodes the mxf to mov files in the capture scratch location of the fcp project. you can pull those directly into ae, without exporting or converting any further. it may simplify your workflow.
Kevin Camp
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sorry it took so long to get back to you (out sick most of last week)…
this is strange… when you say ‘from the drop down menu’ are you refering to the pulldown next to the output module or the pulldown for format at the top of the output module settings window?
Kevin Camp
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you can make a progressive dvd using all 24p footage, and i believe it is then the dvd player then handles the interlacing if it is set to play out to an interlaced device.
as far as workflow, if all your footage is 24p, then work entirely in 24p. when you are finished, if you need to create 30i (29.97) for tape or to meet broadcast standard, interlace and add a pulldown at that point. your nle should do this and there are probably other utilites, but in ae you can take you 24p comp, add to render queue and then click render settings. change the frame rate to 29.97 (thanks dave for saving me one step), set field render to the appropriate setting, and set the pulldown (any setting should be fine, most people use the first).
you would prefer to never have to edit 24p with a pulldown added (converted to 30i) because you will create inconsistencies in the order of progressive frames and interlaced frames that is inherent inconverting 24p to 30i. however, convering native 30i to 24p will result in dropping 1 out of every 5 frames (creating a slight jump) or interpolating some new frames that will rarely look as good as the orginal frames.
so, avoid mixing the two. when you can’t, your workflow will get tricky.
if you don’t have much 24p footage, convert it and add the pulldown to edit into a 30i timeline. avoid having two 24p clips edited together in your project, if you have some, you may want to edit those in a 24p timeline and render that with a pulldown added to then drop into your 30i timeline. or just try to edit in a place where the 2 clips have the same cadence in the 30i timeline by looking at the order of whole frames versus interlaced frames for the last 5 frames of the clip before the edit and the next five frames of the clip after the edit to see if they match.
if you don’t have much 30i footage, then you may want to make that 24p and edit everything in a 24p timeline.
if you equal amounts of both, converting your 24p to 30i and being careful with your edits is probably the easiest way and will produce good results. you just need to be careful where you edit your converted 24p footage.
Kevin Camp
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here’s a tip by steve roberts from a few weeks ago in the ae forum. i think it would help you…
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/899770?univpostid=899770&pview=t
Kevin Camp
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as far as ae preset try d1 widescreen. the comp will be 720×486, but with a 1.2 pixel aspect to make it 16×9. this is the typical way to do sd 16×9 and the way media would be prepared for a widescreen dvd.
i think the omf should work, but you can always render a mov file too. just duplicate the output module then set one to render omf and leave the other at lossless. it won’t effect the render time, you’ll just get 2 renders.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW