[Mrmike]

Thanks. That’s good to know esp. since it’s bundled.

Mr. Mike

[Mrmike]

Well, I hate to bring it up, but in terms of text animations, would another product do a better job? Motion, Combustion, etc. It’s a bit frustrating…

[Mrmike]

Mark, we haven’t tried it, but almost anything (besides VHS and 8mm) would be better than DV. Keylight is a good keyer. Would probably work fine. We do lots of blue and greenscreen – we try to keep it to bluescreen if we can get away with it; for whatever reason, it seems to key more cleanly than the green.

Mike

[Mrmike]

Thanks for the help, Filip. We’ll try the small blur and see how it looks to tape. Real nuisance though. If it is AE, I wonder if 6.5 is any better (we’re using 6.0).

Mike

[Mrmike]

All:

We posted an AE project and rendered movie on our site for your info, if interested. It’s just a black text animation over white, but it shows the “pixelation”, “jittering”, etc. we’ve been experiencing. Have a look at it – as the text scales and tracks, it looks like a “heat wave” is passing over it, making the text jitter. (Ex., look at the letter “i” in “jitter”) The question is: does that look normal to you??

Here’s how you get to the files:
1. Go to https://www.mediaagentsinc.com/safehouse.html
2. Click ENTER
3. Password = CCow (case sensitive)
4. The AE project and rendered movie are downloadable from this level of the directory.

Thanks! Mike

[Mrmike]

Are you sure it looks fine on the computer monitor? We’ve have a similar problem, worse in NTSC but definitel visible on the computer monitor and have yet to figure it out. “Affectionately” referred to here as “walking h” syndrome because of the horiz. flicker it so visibly throws into the character “h” in particular.

It’s really bad with text created in AE with “character tracking” animations, and barely passable with simple scaling. Definitely a problem horizontally vs. vertically.

Quality switch on “high” doesn’t improve it. NTSC vs square pixel doesn’t improve it. The “comp frame rate at 59.94 rendered at 29.97 lower field first” approach is a very very slight improvement.

Imported Illustrator type, NOT continously rasterized looks best, but then were stuck with sort of soft looking type and no easy way to do a tracking animation.

Anyway, we’ve just chaulked it up to being idiots, swimming somewhere lower in the AE gene pool than most, and hope that someone out there can help us. Any ideas?

Mr. Mike