[Nick Vaka]

Thanks everyone for your help! I’m going to try the Photo JPEG as soon as I finish his splash animation. I just got word that my sources were supposed to be 640 x 480 so I’m going to see what the deal is before I get in too much deeper.

Thanks again!

Nick

[Nick Vaka]

I made them both 30 FPS since that’s what the client gave me, but I also tried having them both set to 29.97. It works if I render it out to the full 720 x 480 but then it’s blowing the image up by over 100%. Granted the final deliverables are going to be 320 x 240, but I’m not certain if this is screwing with the quality too much.

I made both the clip and sequence match these specs. 320 x 240, 30 FPS, square pixels, 4:3 aspect using the DV/DVC Pro compressor. What’s interesting is that when I put this clip into a standard DV sequence it will play in real time with the green render bar, but it’s all red in the one that matches it spec for spec.

I watched your tutorial on the subject today (great stuff). Would you recommend blowing it up and using it that way to make it work since this is getting shrunk down again anyway?

Thank you for taking the time to help!

[Nick Vaka]

Ok, so I used MPEG Stream Clip to convert the files and make them usable by FCP. But now I can’t get FCP to read anything that isn’t the standard 720 x 480, DV/DVC Pro 29.97. I matched the sequence and the clip to these specs (720 x 480, 30 FPS, DV/DVC Pro square pixels. Audio plays, but it has to render the video. I’m out of ideas.

[Nick Vaka]

I can get it to import to FCP, and it will render and play in real-time. But I was afraid I was going to have to transcode everything (it was worth asking about though ^_^).

Thanks so much for the reply!

Nick

[Nick Vaka]

Possibly. I usually edit using either FCP or Avid so I’m not really sure how to check. I do see the master track however ^_^. Lets see, I just tried to create a new project and it has the master track as stereo by default. According to the project window both of my sequences are stereo as well. Now, three of the sound effects I use are mono, but that shouldn’t change anything that much, should it?

I’m confused

Thanks for your speedy response

[Nick Vaka]

Never Mind everyone!

I figured it out. Thanks to anybody who looked into it on my behalf however.

Nick

[Nick Vaka]

Hey thanks for the input everyone. I’m in dire need of a system now and can’t shell out the dough for a mac at present (which is ok because most of my clients are PC based anyway. Again, thanks for the input.

[Nick Vaka]

If it’s a little dis-orienting for you in AE there’s a button you can hit in your comp window that will show it in the 16:9 ratio instead of the squished 4:3 called the “Toggle pixel aspect ratio correction” button. It’s a small white box in the comp window.

[Nick Vaka]

It is going into an NLE (Premiere). I was trying to avoid using a DV cam but that’s probably the best option. Thanks for the input.