[Kim Huston]

Fancy word for being taken advantage of.

Kind of like “intern” 😀

It’s great to be good at more than one skill, but you have to be compensated for it. Also in notoriety terms, being called The Producer and/or The Editor is WAY more impressive. Preditor is just kind of an industry buzz word right now.

[Kim Huston]

I used the copy mask shape properties and past into the position property technique, but it made the path much larger upon pasting than the path I actually drew. Is there a way to make it either not do that from the start, or to shrink the position keyframes down to a smaller version of the path?

The path is a spiral and I want the spiral to be tighter. Right now the spiral goes way off the composition screen.

[Kim Huston]

The output format is whatever you want. It gives you lots of choices.

Thanks for the info on cineform. I looked into that as well, but I am sitting on a non-intel mac :

The final answer I came up with was to use an old version of the Panasonic avchd conversion program that still worked with other cameras. They’ve since updated their program to only work with Panasonic generated avchd files. But the old program is still lurking online. That program makes MXF files.

[Kim Huston]

Ah. That’s no good.

Well for anyone that’s following this thread and looking for answers, Toast 9 and up will convert AVCHD to whatever you want in a timely manner. Though on the downside, I can’t get a converted file that isn’t swimmy or choppy.

Still trying to find the magic setting.

[Kim Huston]

As it turned out, since I only had the demo, it was really 15 minutes to convert only 10 seconds.

[Kim Huston]

Some research online has come up with “VoltaicHD” as a good converter program, but I’m running a conversion right now for a short clip (can’t be more than a minute or two) and it estimates 103 minutes.

Is that really how long converting is going to take? That seems completely impractical.

*Update* (Well ok, it just finished and really took about 15 minutes. So the estimation was just WAY off.)

[Kim Huston]

Isn’t the editing mode just referring to the aspect ratio and formatting? Either NTSC PAL, Widescreen, etc?

Apple animation is just what I rendered it out as. Unless there’s a project setting before I create the project where I can designate what codec I want the project to read?

I’m using the Apple Animation because I don’t want any quality loss between programs. Is there another codec to use that doesn’t lose quality and is more suitable for this setup?

Otherwise I’m confused as to how people do this. How do they put a project into After Effects and then get it out to a program to print to tape without all these same problems?

(In the meantime I’ll try the dv codec and the other things you said.)

[Kim Huston]

Oh, that crashed it. 16bpc worked, but also eventually crashed it. 🙁

[Kim Huston]

hm. They are rendering at 8bpc. Should I try 32 instead?

[Kim Huston]

I have this exact same question, but with a different codec and no audio.

I’ve got an Apple Animation file I exported from After Effects that wants me to render in Premiere in a project of the same specs as the file.

I used the analyzer and all it said was this:

File
size: 6.35 GB (6,506 MB / 6,662,616 KB / 6,822,519,487 bytes)

Container
qt : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
File Type: QuickTime (.MOV)
Mime Type: video/quicktime

And then there was a button lit up at the bottom uder “MS A/V” and when I clicked it, it said this:

“Rendering failed. Following is the error reported by DirectShow:
0x80040265: [unknown]”

It’s really frustrating because I’m exporting at a high resolution out of After Effects, and then Premiere comes along and ruins the quality by rendering it 🙁