Ninetto Makavejev
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Excellent answer Kevin, this was exactly the info I spent hours looking for on the internet. This is pure gold, THANKS a MILLION!
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Ummm… I believe there is a misunderstanding here. The question was not : upper or lower… but rather how to deal with tif-sequences in general from AVID. As “separate fields” or “no fields”. To be more precise: if I pick “separate fields” will AE actually produce two different fields from one tif? hiside, Ninetto
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Thanks for the response, Dave.
It appears that CS4 was intepreting the file incorrectly. In any case, over at a workstation with CS5 the file shows up as what one would expect, 1.09/720×576.Strange tho’ is that AE is still insisting that this uncompressed AVI is with “LOWER” field first. I have never seen that in uncompressed, only upper or none.
So something is still fishy. I hate it when you get garbage or no info from clients and have to spend extra energy doing unpaid detective work!hoping for the best,
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Thanks for the advice, Mike.
It is specifically becuase I am not using a DVD-player that I thought I could avoid the limitations of a DVD-player’s resolution.
The file will be played by a mini-mac… outputted to a XGA-beamer via VGA. So I thought AME would do the work of upscaling the SD-video file better than the beamer could.
I guess there is too much hardware-variation for there to be a golden rule for this. The problem I have is that the equipment where the client wants this file to be played is only 1800 km away from my current place-of-residence, which makes it hard to test.
Maybe I just should go the “safe” route, and keep SD just like it is, SD.
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Don’t really get why a serious Postprod co. would not take a format close to your native editing and transfer that to tape… but ok.
You could of course just export uncompressed form CS4 in your native resolution, and if it really just has-to has-to must-absolutely-be a quicktime wrapper, then just import your avi into your Quicktime Pro, and then export it using exactly the codec and resolution your “lab” is demanding from you. You can set all these in the EXPORT/VIDEO/CODEC menu of Quicktime Pro.
good luck, ninetto
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No ProRes in Windows-land, Apple is keeping that one under lock-and-key. (Since they don’t have much else left of their former crown-jewels in terms of video editing…)
But seriously, uncompressed codec for Apple/Windows is of course the Animation Quicktime… but ususally I go with the Avid lossless/uncompressed as they are available for both platforms.
It really depends what application the Windows platform is using. There are many lossless codecs for Windows.
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There is a freeware called “subtitle workshop” written by a guy from Uraguay. It is very good and lets you save your spotted subtitles in a variety of formats.
Encore is excellent. You do need your subs in a Encore-text format, as a UTF-8 encoded text. You import this file in Encore by setting up a subtitle track and importing the script with a right mouse-click. It offers you a variety of fonts/sizes: standard would be a bold font without serif at about 30 points.
good luck, ninetto
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Not sure if this will help you, but I saw this bug pop up on my system briefly when I changed my scratch-disks. Changing them back ended the problem.
Maybe change the scratch-disk pre-set in a project that opens (default is the system disk on Windows, I believe), save, then try starting a new project?
good luck.
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We are getting slightly off the track here, but funny you quote your wise words, Dave… because since I read them at a different post I decided not to compress output from AE… where my initial suspicions were aroused when I saw the render cue does not offer the same presets for Blu-ray as in Premiere.
But now comes the double-whammy case scenario. In Premiere I simple imported the AE-Comp via dynamic link and will compress output via AME from Premiere: I assume this fulfills your advice NOT to compress from AE? I guess AE would just be acting like a frame server pushing uncompressed frames into Premiere via DynLink, right?
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Appreciate the thoughts…
This project is for an artist who demanded Blu-ray files to be looped on a Media Player in a gallery.
So, yeah… that’s what the client wants, Blu-ray. He did not specify whether he meant Blu-ray H.264 /mp4 or Blu-ray /m2v… but my experience in the art world is the equipment in these places vary wildly, there is almost never anyone with any technical capabilities, and I figured if the gallery has a lower-end media server, it would have an easier time with the m2v files rather than mp4 format.
I have not experimented extensively with Blu-ray files, would there be any reason at all to prefer the H.264 format?