[Marc Nibor]

Hi Eddie,

thanks, that was a good idea… but it doesn’t work.
audio doesn’t show up anymore.

….this is such a basic thing. as vincent mentioned before it happens a lot and this is not a 1.0
others must have had this problem before…. and hopefully found a sloution ; )

[Marc Nibor]

thank you for taking the time to answer. unfortunately this kind of solution is not a big help in my case… it would take too long to explain the details.

if there is no way or option to just turn the sound “back on” then i believe i have to redo the work.

i just can’t believe that there is no simple way to accomplish this since technically the audio is still there. – it never was deleted from the source.

i was hoping that with “replace with clip>from bin” the audio would be “reimported” into the timeline. but that does not work.

….. there MUST be a simple way to do this. i’m sure ; )

[Marc Nibor]

Thank you very much for the respond and sorry for the late answer.

the example you provided would probably work in certain cases for example in a landscape like the one you used. in my case it won’t because it would be very noticable due to the content of the image.

i was actually hoping for a plugin that can solve this problem but it seems there is nothing available.

for now i faked my way around with a combination of “perspektive” followed by “distortion” but the result was not exactly what i was looking for.

thank you again for your time

[Marc Nibor]

Thank you very much for this very helpful answer !

Great : )

[Marc Nibor]

ok, so I already made an appointment tomorrow with a Mac guy
and he will open the file for me….

The only prob is… He is not really experienced in this field and I am a total beginner when it comes to macs.

sorry for this 1st grade question, but can someone please give me a brief guideline on what i need to do?

I need this uncompressed apple movie in a format that i can open on a pc. possibly with the least amount of quality loss.

thank you

[Marc Nibor]

Thanks a lot for looking into it.

ok, here is all the additional info that I could get.

the disc is labeled: Codec – Integer – Big Endian

Quicktime DID show the “have to get additional software……” and I was letting it do it’s thing.

the player opens, and the window switches to the correct size. But all I see is white – the player even shows the correct time of the clip and i can scrub through it. but nothing – only white all over.

this is the info that i get when i load it into a converter:
Vid Frame Size: 1024×576
FPS: 25
Video Codec: Uncompressed 10-Bit 4:2:2
Interlacing: Lower First
Aspect Ration 16:9 Pixel 1:1
Audio 48.000kHz 16 Bit Audio Codec 16-bit Big Endian

if I try to convert it I get the same result. white frames – nothing else.

as i said, to my knowledge this clip was made on a mac workstation running avid and it was sent to me from a professional cutting facility.

the big prob is that I cannot reach anoyone there until beginning of next week but I need to work on the footage

any ideas are welcome. even if it’s a hassle : )

[Marc Nibor]

hi abraham,

i’ll probably end up doing what you suggested. actually i was hoping for a “better” solution, but it seems like there is none.

btw: i answered yesterday already two times to your post. but it never showed up and i always got an error message in my browser. is CC now incompatible with opera? it used to work before. now i use IE and it works wiout a problem.

[Marc Nibor]

Hi,
thanks a lot for the info.
…the “reversed the clip” portion was especially helpful.
i’d probably spent hours trying to figure out how to do it inside PI ; )

[Marc Nibor]

thanks alot for both suggestions,

beenyweenies: the mosaic effect does an excellent job after some tweaking! it seems like this is a great solution in this case! : )

beenyweenies and RoRK: there is one part in both of your suggestions about the downsampling which i don’t really understand.
if i downsample the footage to either jpg or MPEG2 format then my transparency from the png sequence is gone, right? or am i missing something?

here once again what i have: there is a lowquality mpeg footage as base. “ontop” of that are the 3Drendered parts (the png sequence) which will be attached to the roof of the vehicle which can be seen in the mpeg. the png sequence is of course transparent so that i see only the rendered parts which should create the illusion of something that is attached ontop of the vehicle in the final movie.

the whole problem was to downsample the png sequence so that at some point the artefacts show up. the fileformat for this doesn’t really matter. i just don,t know how to do that and keep the transparency.

if there is a missunderstanding or i am just not getting your point then please let me know.

as i said, the mosaic will probably be good enough for now, but i am very curious how the other solution would work.

thanks alot

mdm

[Marc Nibor]

believe it or not. this crappy mpeg is everything that’s available. period! ; ) i made every effort to get my hands on the original source. it doesn’t exist anymore.
so the matchmove had to be done from the crap version too. it was handtracked frame by frame, because no tracker could pick up the features. it even was a double track – moving camera plus moving object.
and the 3D portion of the project was also quite a hassle, cause ontop of of all the other problems there was some really weird lens distortion that had to be matched.

well, i know it’s insane… but on the other hand it’s mighty satisfying to succeed in the end cause everyone else turned this thing down because they said it’s impossible.

anyhow… the only major thing that is left for now is the downsampling part.

i know that somehow i will solve this problem too, but i thought i’d save myself a couple hours of trying and ask this question here first.

any ideas ? : )

mdm