[Mark Landsburger]

YES YES YES – We’re getting somewhere. Awesome Chris. Two comps import, one is the square comp (which I read in another post was the one I needed to use). This square comp is also inside the other comp, like you said. So…

I dropped a solid into the square comp as a test, turned the layer to 3d, and parented it to one of the null tracking point layers. Am I on the right track? I’m embarassed to ask this with a few years of AE experience, but I’m getting lost and feel if I could just get on the right path I could run with it.

Thanks for the help

[Mark Landsburger]

I really appreciate it.

[Mark Landsburger]

Here is a tutorial that’s based on Milenium’s advice:

https://www.maxoncomputer.com/tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=81&site=

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks – I’ll see what effect that gets me.

[Mark Landsburger]

Don’t know if it’s available to you, but this would be MUCH easier to do in Premier (for me anyway).

Layer starts
Cut where you want to pause / frame hold on in point
Make this track as long as you want the pause
Cut past paused track right after it
Reverse speed
Past track again and play as normal

You could then add “lines and static” as needed in AE

[Mark Landsburger]

Thanks guys – I’ll alter as needed.

[Mark Landsburger]

I don’t know why, but on my second test, outputting from AE using the DV codec looks like is works. I don’t know why the AE version would be better but it seems to be.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll let you know if it didn’t actually fix it.

I love the cow!

LB

[Mark Landsburger]

OK – I’ll give more detail…

I have video shot in our office, and I’ve taken some product screenshots and placed them over the live video in AE. They’ve been resized, rotated, and in some cases animated. They file coming from AE looks great. The screenshots that are in the video look sharp and clear. However, once on the Premier timeline and with the Premier output, the lines of the screenshot seem jagged and not crisp. This is bad for my project because the screenshots are what it’s all about.

Which leads me to trying to find a way to get it to my camera looking like it does from AE.

Let me know if you need more info. I tried to be detailed.

Thanks again,
LB

[Mark Landsburger]

Well, you could export the video from Premiere Pro as an AVI and then use the trial version of ScLive to output it to tape.

Hey – looks like we’re getting close. Do you mean export from AE as an AVI or did you mean PP? I understand if you mean AE, but not sure what you mean for PP.

And ScLive will not compress from AE when sending it via firewire to my cam?

THANKS THANKS THANKS
LB

[Mark Landsburger]

Looks like I found out that it’s the DV compression in Premier that is taking down the quality of my images. I had no idea this was the case (feel quite stupid)

SO… Can anyone suggest a way to get my footage from AE onto my vx2000 without loosing the quality I seem to be with Premier. How do all of you handle it?

Thanks,

LB