[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Van,

There are soo many different places that could be the reason for your slow export.
Everything from processor, to memory, storage and so on.
Are you doing the render on your Dell, or?

And, why MP4!?

Would you not want a master copy export at highest resolution?

It appears that you are trying to render a lot of elements, whilst squeezing it down in size.

I would suggest that you do the Master out first in best codec.
My choice is ProRes 4444 .mov – ProRes HQ might be enough for your purpose. In Davinci Studio you have alot of choice.
Next run off a “copy” or a down-convert of your master file to H265 (if 4K) or H264 if lower than 4K.

By doing the Master in same quality / resolution as your source footage, it should hopefully render faster.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Jorge,

You can either do it in camera and shoot the bottle(s) rotating on a spinning plate on a green screen. Then edit the bottles into a seamless video. Add background and 2D fruits to the back of it, with a bit of interesting sound.

Or, if you have a bottle, scan it for 3D, then take via blender to complete for wrapping and texture before final composite in AE.
Although some smarter people around here, would be able to all of that inside After Effects.

Just a thought.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Corentin,

That is a fun film, thank you for sharing.

But I would like to better understand your post, and what it is that you are offering?

Should also add some context, having visited your YouTube channel, that Lars von Trier is not well as he is suffering from Parkinsons.
Recently, he was admitted to a care centre:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/12/lars-von-trier-admitted-to-a-care-centre-following-parkinsons-diagnosis

I had the luck of working remotely on a few of his movies. Love or Hate his work, it is fair to say that his genius, including the involvement in the Dogme 95 (together with Thomas Vinterberg and others), helped spark digital low-budget film-making for Cinema. And it is incredible, now fast forward, that this year Sundance Film festival 2025 received 4,138 feature-length films and 11,153 shorts.

A bit of history for you.

But please do expand a little bit more on what you are inviting visitors to the COW to do with your footage?

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Mads

theguardian.com

Lars von Trier admitted to a care centre following Parkinson’s diagnosis

Danish film-maker made public his condition in 2022, aged 66

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Vasyl,

I’m not sure that exporting an completed advert out of After Effects is the best way to go.

However, I can’t read Croatian instructions, as I suspect will be the case for most people on COW.

The Slovenia instructions are much kinder than most I’ve seen. Some UK broadcasters will give you “bible” of all of the available formats across all their channels.

Most important:
1) Do you have audio on your animation, if not, why not?
2) They don’t mention it, which is a flag, but is your video REC 709 compliant?
(All you need to know is that this is about colourspace and the grade of your master
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709)

My approach, as a “dirty” and quick solution, that everybody should be happy with:

IMPORTANT: Make sure that your frame rate is 25fps, and that it is to the exact length to what the contract specifies, or you may get penalised by the broadcaster.

Import your After Effects Composition in to a timeline in Premiere Pro (Using Adobe Dynamic Link, you can take the AE Composition straight in to PPro)

Put on BorisFX Continuum Broadcast Safe filter.
(If you don’t have it, they allow you to trial it, or rent it for a month only:
https://borisfx.com/products/continuum-filters/broadcast-safe/)

Make sure that your audio does not peak in to illegal levels, or are too low.

Export out following the settings for Apple ProRes 422 HQ – they are stright forward to follow.

Maybe for your own library, do an export out without Broadcast safe applied – BUT DO NOT MIX UP THE TWO VERSIONS ON DELIVERY – sorry for shouting, but this is where most deliveries goes wrong.

Also check whether there is any Producer/Post-Production compliance forms that you need to fill out?

Hope that this helped you a little bit towards delivery.

Good Luck – and give yourself a treat once the delivery is completed.

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Mads

en.wikipedia.org

Rec. 709) - Wikipedia

Rec. 709) - Wikipedia

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Irina,

No problem, Brie (Head-Bull of the barn) has already been ultra effcient and shared your post.

https://jobs.creativecow.net/job/film-locker-freelance-freelance-bru-argest-lto-archive-specialist/

As you are in London, like I am, I might have a couple of really good leads for you. People with 20-years+ of experience.

Will reach out, and let them know about your gig.

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Mads

jobs.creativecow.net

Freelance BRU / ArGest LTO Archive Specialist – Creative COW Career Center

Freelance BRU / ArGest LTO Archive Specialist – Creative COW Career Center

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Irena,

Sounds like your firm is having a tough time.

I normally break these things, so not the freelancer that you want.

However, can I suggest that you add a location for your needs, even if it is just a state or a country?

And, you should consider posting the (freelance) job on the COW job-board, then it will be distributed out from there to LinkedIN and other places.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Nacho,

Yes, there is a real art form to getting the right EDL.

EDL in its purest form is just In/Out Time-codes for the source, and the Master.
It will also carry the “Tape number” or the digital file name.
But it will not have much information for the effects, except the basic one.
If it involves multiple complex video layers, you might consider doing an additional EDL for each video track.

AAF can contain a lot more information, but that only works if the sender (you) can include it in the pack, and the people receiving it can “unpack” it.

You must ask questions of the production or post production facility that will do the “on-line” (final full quality) Master.

They should be able to tell you what they want.

And, although you might feel that would send a signal of not knowing, I can tell you that it is not as there are a thousand+ ways of messing up the auto-conform for your masterpiece of an off-line edit.

If anything, the facility will appreciate you asking, rather than them finding out the hard way.

When asking, you might even find that they are using AVID, and can open your project, without you doing a lot of unnecessary work.

Hope that this helps?

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Pete,

Sorry, for starters, I have not edited multi-cam inside Davinci. And, the one time I wanted to sync clips by audio, it did not want to play ball at all (camera-mic on track 3, did not want to sync to 3 x mono wav files…).

However, even though it sounds like you’ve burned out on options, have you visited Larry Jordan?

If not, this might be of help + the comments section is of interest too.
https://larryjordan.com/articles/get-started-multicam-editing-in-davinci-resolve/

Will keep looking for you.

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Mads

larryjordan.com

Get Started: Multicam Editing in DaVinci Resolve 18 | Larry Jordan

Get Started: Multicam Editing in DaVinci Resolve 18 | Larry Jordan

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Bob,

I really like that I can look up long-timers (thinking back to WWUG) outside of the COW and see what they are up to these days.

But I also understand that at a time where the COW, was around before FaceBook, Twitter and the rest, that some people might be afraid of using their real name, incase it falls back on them.

In particularly I found on Twitter, now X, that some “fake” profiles was set up to atagonise and spread discourse, and it is much worse now under Musk’s “X” branding.
(I have joined BlueSky, and is currently winding down my “X” account)

You can’t win, but I suspect that Bessie takes a nuanced view on which accounts are behaving to guide-lines, and which accounts, with their IP address just needs to be thrown into a blackhole never to be heard from again.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Sherwin,

If you haven’t already, this Blackmagic thread might be of interest to you.
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=115985

There is a link to a much older thread, to this post:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=105506&p=583792&hilit=eucon#p583792

However, it goes without saying that 5-years is an eternity when it comes to Blackmagic, Avid and Apple OS…

Hope some of the above will work got you.

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Mads

forum.blackmagicdesign.com

Blackmagic Forum • Information

Blackmagic Forum • Information