Mike Smith
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[BeeLaster] “‘m looking at the JVC ProHD GY-HD100U and want to cut in 24p HDV mode. So far it looks like this is not possible w/o 3rd party plug-ins (Lumiere HD)
Does anyone have experience w/ this?”
Any news on whether this is fixed now …?
Thanks !
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Love it. Isn’t that life. Now, about a hiphop remix …
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It sounds very unlucky for you.
You must be the victim of a system conflict: I’m looking at uncompressed, realtime full-SD preview from AE via a Decklink card right now, and can switch to firewire preview via a DVCAM deck via the preview settings in a matter of moments … so it really is worth persevering to find out where the conflict lies in your system. It it’w with Avid software, that should be well documented.
It saves a lot of time to preview rather than have to export / play out to video / come back and change things.
Do you use Photoshop – does the preview work on that?
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Just to add to the fun, there are some domestic camcorders which record 16:9 as a cropped image with black bars top and bottom, rather than as a “squeezed” image filling the frame with tall, thin pixels – which some might thing it’s misleading to describe as widescreen.
So it can matter what camcorder / settings were in use …!
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Good advice.
You can make your stuff look *much* better by carefully “grading” or “timing” of colour correcting each shot, to give a consistent overall look and to bring each image to that look.
Though, of course, there are a mass of different “film looks” – and none of them will rescue poor footage, poor cinematography and lighting, poor performances, poor design, poor editing … !!!
Happy festive season.
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Reading your post, my first thought was gradient wipe with a custom mask, butlooking at the link it looks more like a solarise effect being removed to me …
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If you have Production Bundle / Pro version, Keylight is good. You may need to use multiple instances of the plug to clean up a messy shoot.
This link is from the tutorials section, accessible by clicking the AE Cow graphic at the top of the page …
good luck!
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Shame it didn’t work out. From your links, it seems Trollback work with AE … I guess you could e-mail them and ask?
As the problem isn’t there on still frames, it suggests something in the video encoding / display stages, rather than directly in AE.
Though there obviously are limits as to how fast / far across the screen things can comfortably move frame to frame without image problems / persistence of vision stretch occuring! I guess it would be interesting to figure out just what Trollback did, frame by frame, and try replicating.
No doubt you experimented with alternate fonts, colourways.
I’m still suspecting the monitors!
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Shame it didn’t work out. From your links, it seems Trollback work with AE … I guess you could e-mail them and ask?
As the problem isn’t there on still frames, it suggests something in the video encoding / display stages, rather than directly in AE.
Though there obviously are limits as to how fast / far across the screen things can comfortably move frame to frame without image problems / persistence of vision stretch occuring! I guess it would be interesting to figure out just what Trollback did, frame by frame, and try replicating.
No doubt you experimented with alternate fonts, colourways.
I’m still suspecting the monitors!
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Hi Jen.
// Motion blur + wider / bigger shutter angle .. + maybe slow the speed of motion a little? //
Sounds interesting. If you’ve seen it done, it must be possible.
Just to check I’m clear on what you’re seeing: the ghost effect is only visible when the animation is played, and it’s on both your computer screen and your video out (and these aren’t LCD screens, not able to refresh quickly? Of course they’re not!? But if you stop the After Effects playhead and examine a still frame, the ghost isn’t there? So if you export a still frame from a moving part of the animation, it isn’t showing the problem?
If so, then maybe you are on the right lines with motion blur. What happens in you combine motion blur with a much bigger shutter angle?
Also, just in trying to test the limits, what happens if,as a test, you slow down the animation speed across teh screen – how slow do you have to go for the effect to disappear …?
Just checking – are you working with with field rendering enabled?
Of course there’s a limit to how fast things can travel across the screen before the movement looks harsh – and it’s faster with interlaced footage than progressive-scan frames – but this doesn’t sound like it’s your problem here …I’d be interested in any solution you find.