Matt Larson
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AE Expressions Coins
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COW Coins
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select the keyframe(s) and go to Animation> Keyframe Interpolation and change the Temporal and Spatial settings to linear.
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Nope. Once you bring in that compressed media, you are going to have to compress it again for delivery, so that’s like a second generation loss. Depending on how it was compressed the first time the results will be better or worse. For Example if it was compressed to MPEG-2 and then recompressed to MPEG-2 again, it wouldn’t be as bad as a 320 x 240 web video.
I’d suggest rendering your original compressed file as an Animation Quicktime or something else lossless and use that in AE and archive it so you can go back to it again in the future without having to go through a 3rd generation loss.
Now that said, if your original clip is a commercial or something and you just want to play the entire clip, you might be able to use some scripting for Quicktime or WIndows Media to make it link to the original clip from your new stuff. Check out the web forums here if you need help with that.
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try running analog video black to the IO box at the same time
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I saw this driver update too a few weeks ago and having the same setup, I called Aja Tech support. After talking with them, I decided not to install this update (I was weary to use beta software on my main machine). I’d suggest calling them (get their number from their suport site) and seeing if you want to proceed. The guy I seemed more like an engineer than a phone support guy–very nice and knowledgable
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I just checked my settings and I have frame offset set to 0 but when I use JKL to start stop playback I’m seeing about a 3 frame drift after I stop playback. Is this just an FCP issue?
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I’ll take another stab at it!
Yes, if your FCP is hooked up to an IO and he’s using 8 bit, he’s probably using the Aja “8-bit Uncompressed codec”. But even if you don’t render it to that codec, FCP should be able to no problem.
Does the file you render look good on your PC? If not, it’s probably a setting somewhere in AE (probably the render setting or ouptut module). If it looks fine to you, there must be a problem in going from your PC to Mac.
If it is a problem with AE, try using a different preset (like PSD sequence like someone said) and see if that works. You will have to bring that image sequence back into AE and render out as a Quicktime though to work in FCP. If that works though, you’ll be able to trace the problem back and fix it.
If none of this works, write back….I’ve got lots of render time to kill today!
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Try using the “Lossless with Alpha” preset. (Quicktime Animation codec, Millions of Colors+) Works for us at my studio
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When I open up bars and tone I set my tone level to -20 dB in FCP (I actually adjust the volume on the tone media to -20dB from -12dB) Then with my -20 dB tone playing from FCP, I set my Betacam “0” level. (I also set up my D9 deck to -20 dB). Then when I do a final mix in FCP HD I mix to -12 dB with the little audio meters and make sure I don’t have anything peak over -10dB.
That seems to work really well for my set up. Once I had tone set, I used to watch my levels on the deck rather than FCP, but it always seems to come out right this way.
Now if there was only a way to keep my tone media set at -20 instead of having to adjust it every time……
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Control-click on the media files in your browser bin and look for “Make Offline…” You’ll have 3 options: Leave on disk, Move to Trash and Delete from Disk. I usually Move to Trash and wait a few days before I empty it, just in case.
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Just make sure the clip you want to write over is not open: Either in the viewer (open slug, or another video clip to clear it) or if it is in an open sequence, control-click the timeline tab and close it.