[Madiha Mirza]

Hello thanks for your response.

Yes my second project properties settings was set to NTSC DVD widescreen. I then rendered it as MPEG-2 with audio but I still noticed some blurryness.

I will try everything all again when I get home hopefully it will work out.

Yeah my first setting was totally wrong (1280×720).

Thanks.

[Madiha Mirza]

I’m not sure what “my movie is set up” means…

Sorry, I meant my project properties.

What format is you source footage?

It was originally a vob file that I converted to mpeg I believe.

What camera?

The camera is fairly old. Its one of those Sony Mini DVD camcorders. When I finalize the dvd and play it back in a player UNEDITED, there is no motion blur. Only after I render and play the edited Version.

What are your project properties?

Project properties were set in two different settings.

1- HDV 720-30p (1280×720, 29.970 fps)
Field order: progressive scan
Pixel format: 8bit
Full resolution rendering quality: Best
Motion blur type: guassian
Deinterlaced method: none

2- NTSC widescreen DVD 720×480
Default settings

What are your render properties?

I am not exactly sure since I am not at my computer right now. I will get home and double check.

It sure sound like an interlace problem which shouldn’t happen if everything is progressive.

I hope its just a simple mistake on my part which i am missing. Like i said the video recorded fine, its once I edit and render where it causes this awful motion blur/strobe effect.

Thanks for all your help.

[Madiha Mirza]

Okay I will convert it when I get home and see if that solves it.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Madiha Mirza]

I havnt used after effects that much, I am a newbie…

But when I try to RAM PREVIEW it, it says error, need two or more frames for playback (or something along those lines).

Could it be that my video file is not compatible with AE? Also, just a note, when I do NOT scale that video file and make it slow motion then render it, it comes out fine and smooth. When I scale it up to 200% thats when it gets all choppy…

I hope you can help me out, this is due today =( Thanks so much.

[Madiha Mirza]

Hey guys,

Im so dumb, I got it now lol. Basically I imported the qt movie into flash cs3 and then created a mask.

It was that simple i knew it! Thanks though for all your help.

Cheers!

[Madiha Mirza]

My QT is in a rectangle with rounded corners. I want to add this to my website as a header with rounded corners. So the bg has to be transparent so that the website bg can show through the header. I have seen it done on almost every site! I didnt know it was this difficult to create a swf or something that is compatible for the web that is not in the regular rectangular shape but rather a rounded rectangle shape.

Please help me out, i think i am definately missing some key info…

Here is a link to what I want the QT or SWF that I rendered from AE to be inside of with the rounded corners. https://www.slideshowcreation.ca/header_problem.html

Thanks.

[Madiha Mirza]

Hello,

Thanks for the responses, I am probably really dense, but I dont know how to check to see if there is an alpha channel on my quicktime movie. I went on google and did a search and it was giving me the same answers (RGB+ALPHA and A MILLION +)..

I see the transparency in after effects so how do I export it so that i can see it in quicktime/flash or any other video player. I want to embed it into my html src and I tried to do that just now, but i still get the black bg…

Sorry guys, I hope u can help me…

thanks.

[Madiha Mirza]

Hello, thanks for the response.

Actually after I render it in quicktime, I am just viewing it in Quicktime to see if the transparency is there. But the bg is still black. I am not using FCP or any other program.

I am rendering it in quicktime because of the fact that I can make it transparent and then later on convert it into an swf so that I can put it online.

I’m sorry i am new at AE. Am I doing something wrong?

Basically to give you a visual. I made a banner for my website, but the banner is not a rectangle, it is in a rounded rectangle. So the corners are rounded.

Thats why I need the background behind the corners to be transparent and I did that by adding a mask in AE, but when rendering it, the mask is black.

I have tried this for two days now with no luck.

Thanks to all who respond!!

Cheers.