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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 30, 2012 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Renders start at odd in points even though the In Point should be 00;00;00

    Might try trashing prefs. Take a look at Preference Manager

    It now as AE in its list.

    Other than that, I’m stumped by your problem. I don’t think there is a preference to render from playhead position, only RAM preview from playhead position.

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 30, 2012 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Creating a luma matte from subject against black background

    Maybe try this:
    1. Precomp your footage.
    2. Add a white solid and place it under your video.
    3. Add curves to your video and crush the blacks, but try avoid making anything in your foreground image too dark.
    3. Add Luma Key – Key Out Darker.
    4. Play with Luma Key settings until it looks right.
    5. Might want to mess with Matte choker effect on top of the key.
    6. Add fill and turn it to black.
    7. Go back to main comp and use this as a luma matte or reverse luma matte.

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Renders start at odd in points even though the In Point should be 00;00;00

    As you may know, the default is to take the in and out from your work area. However, if you put something into the queue and then change your work area before rendering, AE updated the render settings and uses the new work area. Is that a possibility for your problem here?

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 23, 2012 at 6:44 pm in reply to: shatter effect

    Shatter effect is a great effect, but isn’t a quick effect. Definitely look at the tutorials that others have posted. I got frustrated the first time I tried to use it but once I got my head around it, I use it quite often. The controls can get pretty deep.

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 20, 2012 at 5:51 pm in reply to: file size problem

    Always listen to people named Kevin.

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 19, 2012 at 3:12 pm in reply to: file size problem

    Johnny is correct. Lets say you have two 60 sec animations. The first being a simple talking heads video with very little changing throughout. The second being a high-impact motion graphics speedfest. When you use a lossy compressor like .h264, you will see a huge difference in file size. This is because compression throws out or reuses repetitive material as much as possible to keep bit rates low. The talking head video is very repetitive visual, so its data size will be much smaller than something that is changing constantly.

    Now if you render those out to what is considered more lossless codec, like animation or Prores 422 or 444, you will notice that the file sizes are much more similar. That is because lossless codecs make each frame independently from the ones around it, hardly using any compression at all.

    It isn’t a good idea to render out .h264 from AE. That’s not its job. AE is not a very good compression app. Johnny is correct in his workflow. Not only can you see an estimated data size, but you will get better results with smaller data sizes.

    Seems like an unneeded step, but always make a master in a lossless codec and then use a good compression application to make your distributables. That way if someone asks you for an .flv or .mpeg or whatever, you will be able to quickly compress that from your master file and not have to bother with AE.

    Hope this helps,
    Reiner

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 16, 2012 at 3:04 am in reply to: Animating text on a spiral, and I’m having a render issue

    Looks pretty good on my end. Movement like that will often introduce judder. You could increase the motion blur to help with that. The only other red flags that I see would be your bit rate on the .mp4 file. Youtube and vimeo are going to compress your file again, so you want to feed them as good of quality as you can get. Vimeo recommends 2000 kbps for standard definition or 5000 kbps for high definition video (not sure about youtube, but I’m sure its similar). So bumping up the bit rate might help the overall look and movement.

    Check out vimeo’s file settings here:

    https://vimeo.com/help/compression

    But overall it’s looking pretty good. You’re looking at it much closer than anyone else will, which is what you should do.

    Good luck,
    Reiner

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 15, 2012 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Tree bullet impact effect ? Need help

    Maybe take a look at this tutorial by Andrew Kramer,

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 15, 2012 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Animating text on a spiral, and I’m having a render issue

    Is it the entire frame that is juddering or just the moving text? Would you be able to share the video. Might help to see it. Moving text is tricky. Maybe use a higher degree of motion blur?

    -Reiner

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  • Kevin Reiner

    January 14, 2012 at 4:28 pm in reply to: Animating text on a spiral, and I’m having a render issue

    Try this:

    1 Precomp your whole master comp into another comp. Make that comp 960×540 and scale your master to fit.

    2 Render that out to using the Quicktime animation codec.

    3 You might not be able to play that file and it will be pretty big.

    4 Now try compressing using .h264 960×540.

    If you don’t have luck with that, post what your settings are in handbrake. I am unfamiliar with that program.

    -Reiner

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