[Kim Huston]

Or really… any water-like effects at all.

[Kim Huston]

Oh ok. Thanks.

[Kim Huston]

I used Premiere to originally export it as an Apple Animation, then I used After Effects to export it as an avi with Video for Windows.

But the requirement is just to have those codecs installed on the computer. Since I’m compressing it on the same computer I exported it on, shouldn’t that mean they ARE installed on this computer?

[Kim Huston]

I’m sending it tomorrow, so let’s say I’m going to export it at 720 x 486. What steps do I need to take from Premiere Pro to get it to adhere to those broadcast specs?

[Kim Huston]

Those are as specific as they said, including that it should be either 4:3 or 16:9.
I guess by high resolution they mean the highest you can give, but not 1080i, if that makes sense.

It’s for a contest for a subsidiary channel of nbc, which I don’t think supports 1080i. It’s a satellite channel. But given that it was for anywhere between amateur and professional filmmakers, I think when they say “high resolution” they mean, “don’t give us the crummy low res file we requested for internet streaming originally”. That being said, I can either give them a 1280 x 720, which is what it was shot in, or a 720 x 486 for tv.

My submission was shot in 24p, but will end up being 29.97 for the dvd.

[Kim Huston]

You shouldn’t have to force anything. Premiere Pro even has a preset for 1080p 24p capturing. Maybe if you’re changing settings back and forth, it’s automatically switching the framerate back to 29.97 if you switched another setting that requires it or something. That’s really the only reason I can think of that it would decide to import at 29.97 if you’re not setting it to.

[Kim Huston]

The lossless animation codec for exporting out of Premiere? Or from After Effects. I exported it at 100% quality.

Do you know what the lossless animation codec is called?

[Kim Huston]

No, I don’t get any blur or lines or anything at all. If it’s not that you had to render it right away when you put the footage on the timeline, then it might just be a weird way the Canon is playing it back because it wasn’t shot on that camera.

[Kim Huston]

I don’t know as much as many people on this forum, but I do shoot with the JVC GYHD100 and in 24p.

23.976 is what you want. Or if the program is rounding it to 23.98. When you put the footage into the timeline, did you have to render? That’s a very good sign that there’s something wrong with your project settings.

They should be:

General
Editing mode: DV 24p
Timebase: 23.976 fps

Video Settings
Frame size: 720h 480v (0.900)
Frame rate: 23.976 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

I would also suggest trying to borrow the camera to capture again if possible. Sometimes cameras are picky with the tape they get. That could explain the wavey lines too.

Dynamic link really only seems to work per shot. So when you DL something, do it by shot if you can, unless the animation is over more than one shot. Then you might try just making an After Effects project of the same settings as your premiere project and making the background of the animation transparent, or black might work. Then superimpose it over the footage after exporting it. (I wanted to try that with something, but it was just a guess as to whether it will work. Might want to make sure with someone else.)

In order to combine framerates in a project, I *think* you’ll need to export your 24p project to microsoft dv avi, the uncompressed 29.97 avi. And then put that into a new project with the dv 29.97 settings, and then capture and add in your new footage.

Then whether you want the graphics to look like the 24p stuff, framerate/filmic wise, or if you want it to look like the new 30 stuff you’re shooting depends on when in that process of converting to 29.97 you do it and want to do it in.

I hope that gave you some answers. I’m in a hurry, so I’m not sure if it was coherent or helpful or answered everything!

Good luck!

[Kim Huston]

It’s…. BRILLIANT!

The photo jpeg is amazing! I got a 2GB file that looks great, and I can pop back and forth on frames in AE and it renders immediately. And it takes like 3 seconds to ram preview at full resolution.

Amazing!

I’d buy you all a drink if I could mail a pint first class.