Michiel
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Hmmm, if it is DV footage, setting everything to lower field should work. Maybe it’s in the capture process where it goes wrong. I’m not sure what the process is for DV camcorders that record to DVD. Is it recorded in dvd format (ie. mpeg2) or does it record a DV encoded file as data on DVD (i think that would be the most logical).
You say you are bringing it in uncompressed with DVD2AVI, so you are already doing some conversion there which is where the problem may be. Can you do a normal capture to DV like you would with a normal tape based DV camcorder? That should ensure that you actually get a properly interlaced DV footage file from your camcorder to the computer to work with. -
yeah, nulls are our friends! 🙂
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switching the interpretation of your imported photoshop file to D1 non-square pixel aspect should fix the problem. If you wanna work with square pixels, you should use a size of 768×576, not 720×576
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In the short time i’ve been working in this business (since september last year) I’ve gathered that this is the norm. Our company does broadcast production as well and I’ve so far never been consulted about a deadline or timeframe for a project. Most of our work is short promo’s (for album releases and stuff like that) which are relatively simple and usually have one day scheduled, but last week I was doing this promotional video for a telecom company, 4 minutes with heavy AE work almost all the time. They had scheduled 2 1/2 days for it! I could have told them beforehand that we were not ever gonna make that with the kind of work that had to be done, and in the end it took 5 days with me working 13/14 hours each day to get it finished. And there was no time really to conceptualise or storyboard or anything. The client had a rough script of what had to happen and that was it.
The budget and timeframe were obviously too low for the production, but i tried to make the best of it, and the client was very happy in the end, but it’s true that the producers are likely to only think about getting the job rather than thinking about what it takes to actually create the content.
I do get my overtime compensated as time off though so that’s good 🙂 -
animation or uncompressed are codecs that aren’t really meant for realtime playback, but rather for storage or moving between apps of files without quality loss. Which codec to use for your final render meant for delivery/playback depends on what your target medium is. If it’s for playback a computer, use something like sorenson, mpeg1 or mpeg4, H.264, or even divx to compress to a smaller file size and lower data rate so it’s suitable for realtime playback. (if it’s going to DV tape, then obviously you’ll have to convert to DV codec, and for DVD you’d use mpeg2). I’d say first render to animation, then compress this using one of the other codecs and keep the lossless animation for backup purposes.
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maybe check out this article: https://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.jhtml;jsessionid=1MZWIH51ETQ10QSNDBCSKH0CJUMEKJVN?category=Motion+Graphics&subGenre=&articleId=170100038
if you scroll down to the “slinky effect” you can see how to create a sort of snake like effect with multiple crosshairs following one “leader” by using expressions. If you substitute the crosshairs of the article with sort of circular segments of a dragon body, and subsitute the “leader” with your dragon head and parent the bodyparts to some of the following segments, I think you could create a pretty cool flowing dragon.
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maybe check out this article: https://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.jhtml;jsessionid=1MZWIH51ETQ10QSNDBCSKH0CJUMEKJVN?category=Motion+Graphics&subGenre=&articleId=170100038
if you scroll down to the “slinky effect” you can see how to create a sort of snake like effect with multiple crosshairs following one “leader” by using expressions. If you substitute the crosshairs of the article with sort of circular segments of a dragon body, and subsitute the “leader” with your dragon head and parent the bodyparts to some of the following segments, I think you could create a pretty cool flowing dragon.
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i’ve had trouble with keeping consistent colour between Illustrator and AE as well. You may want to check wether the file has a colour profile associated with it and if it does, disable it, and perhaps disable colour management in illustrator altogether. Now if the colours have shifted when you threw out the colour profile, shift them back again in illustrator to something that comes as close as possible to how it’s supposed to look and then import into AE.
As far as i understand it, colour profiling/management is only used for print purposes or moving files between different devices (scanner/computer/printer). -
that’s John Knoll 🙂
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thanks. I know AE won’t take CMYK, but it’s good to know that I won’t have to mess with color profiles. Should I turn off color management in photoshop and illustrator altogether if I’m only working for AE and not for print?