[Martin Del rio]

Hi Tudor:

Thanks for the advice, I guess I going to have to use a lot of pre-comps to organize everything and also to do faster renders.

martin

Martin Del Rio

[Martin Del rio]

Hey Dave:

Well…the guy editing the video couldn’t give me a useful answer. He shot the video with a Sony XDCAM HD at 29.97 fps and then captured the footage in default settings. Yeah I know It is frustrating answer…I just going to get back to him and recreate every step from the actual settings on the camera, the camera specifications, the capture process and the sequence settings in FCP.

Thanks Dave,
Martin

Martin Del Rio

[Martin Del rio]

Hi Bret:

The file looks fine in QT player. I checked all the settings for the XD CAM sequence and everything matches. One thing that I noticed is that in the sequence settings next to FRAME SIZE it reads HDTV 1080i (16:9) I think that ” i ” stands for interlaced.

In After Effects inside render queue I couldn’t find any option for interlaced in XD CAM EX compression in fact the compression set in FCP is XD CAM 1080p30, the same compression that I set in After Effects.

” Delete the pro res clip so the timeline is empty, then drag in the xdcam clip. It should ask to match the settings. Say yes.”

I did that and it didn’t work. Would it be a problem with the playback settings?

Finally I imported the file compressed in ANIMATION and it plays fine inside FCP.

I still can’t get the XD CAM EX file to work in FCP although the sequence has the same settings.

Thank you Bret,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hello Dave:

I created a new project with a new timeline in FCP and I made sure the “field dominance” was set to NONE. Then I dropped the XD CAM EX 1080p30 file to the timeline and when I played it back the results were the same… The animation stutters.

I used render queue in AE, I checked all the settings and everything matches. There’s one thing that I couldn’t set in the XD CAM EX option in render queue. That is the field order. I couldn’t find any option for that. Other than that, everything was set to match.

The frame rate is 29.97 and I already checked that in render queue inside AE.

When I tried using a different compression like ANIMATION in render queue in AE, the results are better when I open that file in FCP. It plays good.

Another thing… When I open the XD CAM file in quicktime itself, it plays fine.

Should I use the ANIMATION compression or should I just keep trying to use exactly the same compression that my client has in his FCP sequence?

My client has to put the animation at the end of a life-action footage (It’s just an animated logo at the end of a TV commercial).

Thank you very much for your help Dave, I really appreciate it.

Cheers

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hi Brett:
Thank you for your response. When I import the file to FCP and I drop it to the timeline, FCP doesn’t give me any error message, there is no need to render anything. But as soon as I hit play almost at the end of the animation, it stutters.

Also, when I want to check the clip settings of the animation inside FCP I get an error message that reads:

No items have files applicable to this operation

I exported the same animation from AE compressed in Apple PRO RES HQ, then when I import that file in FCP, I drag the file to the timeline and FCP asks me to match the video settings to sequence settings, I hit OK and then the video plays without any problems.

What do you think is going on?

Thank you very much for your help Brett,

All best,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hi Chuck:

Thank you very much for your response. I solved the problem, I’m using FireFTP to connect to the server and I entered the logging name and password form there.

You are right, it is a lot better if I use a dedicated FTP client application.

Thank you very much for your help,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hello Dave:

Thank you for your help, 24 frames is not an easy frame rate to work with. I’ll keep playing with the options for the motion blur.

cheers,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hello Dave:

I used motion blur and it looks a little bit better. Maybe if I play with the Advance options in the composition settings:

-Shutter Angle
-Shutter Phase
-Sample Per Frame
-Adaptive Sample Limit

What do you recommend?

Once again, thank you very much for your help.
All best,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hi Dave:

Thank you for your response.

I’m playing this on a full resolution RAM preview and then playing this on a rendered file Apple PRO RES 422 HQ progressive. The same problem happens in both.

The quality of all the layers is set to BEST resolution. I’m also working with 3D layers in order to use the camera zoom. All this layers including the BG are parented to an Adjustment Layer. I’m animating this Adjustment layer to create the illusion of the camera pan.

Here is a link to a compressed version of the file:

https://www.martinsillusions.com/SODA.mov

The guy working in FCP has the same problem with the exported file that I gave him.

Thank you very much for your time Dave,

Cheers,

Martin

[Martin Del rio]

Hello:

I am working with a 1920×1080 23.976 progressive Composition in After Effects CS3. I’m having problems trying to achieve a smooth camera pan.

I have a long camera pan from left to right and then from bottom to top. All the elements in the pan stagger.

There are several pre-comps in the main composition with the camera pan. I have checked each one of them and they are all in 29.976 fps progressive although some of them have a different aspect ratio (NOT 1920×1080). I also checked the motion blur in all the layers and it is OFF.

I’m just wondering if any of you guys can help me with this issue, I will really appreciate it.

Thank you very much for your time,

Martin