[Michele Poggi]

I made this, for now.. Surely in a more complicated way you or anyone else would have suggested, though. :s

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[Michele Poggi]

Your steps are a piece of cake. 😉 Thanks a lot, but indeed that’s not exactly what I want to do, it’s.. Far too simple. The director asked me to do something really “appleish”, so.. A White bar that fills inside a stroked “whiter” bar.. Using track matte (correct me if I’m wrong!) would make impossible to have a “border” around my progression bar. So I’ll try to make it more manually but I’d really like to hear your opinion about this. I do know I have a lot to learn..

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Yeah, thanks for the suggestions. 😉 The main problem is indeed the extremely limited time I have to do it. I’ll also try to mask a solid to create an animation effect like the Macs progress bars.. Maybe an offset effect will work.

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Oups, sorry. Well, the right answer is “Both”.

My real urgence though is about the user interface.

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It’s a really clear and simple concept indeed. My real obstacle is the language, being english my third one.. Though the most important, I know. Thanks for your patience, really. I only have one last question, about my upcoming final export for PRINTING:

They want 16 bit TIFFs, and of course they don’t want any type of slugginess: my idea and my knowledge says that exporting in “TIFF Sequence” the framerate that I’ll use is irrilevant since I’m exporting single FRAMES, am I wrong? If the credits move by 4 pixels per frame, exporting an image sequence should be completely safe or am I missing something important?

As before, thank you very much for your support. I’d really like to reach soon such a knowledge of these issues.

[Michele Poggi]

Thanks, since I’m still fighting with this job I’ll try to understand this the best I can.

With “Conform” you mean changing the project to 25fps? When I’ve done that the result was the same of “exporting” it to 25.

Would it be better with exporting single 16bit Tiffs?

[Michele Poggi]

Woah, I did see some problems in great movies indeed. The Animation file? If the export is, for example, a lossless MOV, then it shouldn’t do the trick, am I right? It should duplicate a frame every second in the exact same way.. Or for “Animation” you’re thinking of something else?

Thanks a lot, as always. 🙂

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I usually don’t use XnView, but I downloaded it now to discover what in the world my supervisor could have done. Of course I confirmed what you said, so it IS 16 bit, indeed. Exactly as you said if you open it it downs it to 8-bit, so maybe my supervisor missed this thing and looked at the wrong properties. I’ll warn him.

Thanks for the extremely fast and professional support, really.

[Michele Poggi]

Sure, here it is: 3629_00043.tif.zip

The VFX Supervisor began having doubts because of the circles of contrast that are around the sea. And then checking on XnView he said that since it was showing “24” the files were 8 bit. Then forcing in the output module the 16 bit export (though it should have been already ok since the project IS 16 bit and by standard there is “current settings”) it showed “32”.

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[Michele Poggi]

Thanks for the support guys, I talked with the VFX Supervisor and he told me this (ours) was not the case.

He’s using XnView to check the depth because it seems that XnView shows the TOTAL even if it shows “per channel”, so showing 24 it means 8 per channel. That’s why in the first post I was talking about “8×3”. I know it’s weird, but since he’s actually using that as official test, maybe my AE is indeed making errors or is this program somehow the fault?

Is there a way to fully be sure about the color depth of the TIFFs I’m exporting.

As always, thanks, and I hope to be as useful as you to this community, asap. 😉

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