Noah Kadner
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Have a peek into the manual- the specs are all in there for 16:9 design. There’s also presets in Photoshop CS.
Noah
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Not exactly- NTSC players can play at native 24p but you would need to create a 25p or 50i version for PAL. There’s no format that right out of the box will play worldwide. Even film would need to be transferred to seperate PAL and NTSC versions- because it’s frame rate as well as frame size. NTSC is 720×480 while PAL is 720X576.
It all comes down to budget. If you had unlimited budget, I’d say shoot in 35mm then transfer to 1080 HD for the edit. Then master to NTSC and PAL Digibeta and use those as a source for the DVD master.
If you were trying to get the most bang for the buck I’d say shoot in 24p NTSC and then create an NTSC master. Because just about all PAL DVD players can playback NTSC but the reverse is not true. PAL originated material needs to be converted to NTSC before NTSC players could play it. Here’s a good primer:
https://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/PALvsNTSC/PALvsNTSC.asp
-Noah
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Yes- though you’ll of couse want FCP for the simplest workflow.
Noah
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You don’t import it specifically, just load the illustrator file as an object and it should show up as a spline.
Noah
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Did you place the image into the alpha channel section of your material? Also make sure you’ve then selected the alpha channel in the layers dialogue. I find PSD files work best for this.
Noah
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I pretty much started by downloading the demo from Maxon and then playing with the tutorials they have on their site. There’s even more user friendly ones to be had over on https://www.c4dcafe.com/ Be patient of course. I was playing with the demo for a few months of off and on use before I finally bit the bullet and bought it.
-Noah
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I tried to pick up Maya for many years and found the learning curve just too steep(also couldn’t fathom Lightwave or Max). In contrast I found C4D much easier to learn and create good work with. Demo is great way to try it out.
Noah
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In short- Motion is a key reason to get a new Mac. If you’d like to see it in action- I’d advise trekking to an Apple store. They’re all across the US and the world at this point.
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Nothing I’ve ever seen convinces me that the encoder used affects the compatibility of a DVD- assuming of course the proper settings are used in Compressor and data rates are kept reasonable.
Noah
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Film or 24p HD would definitely be the smartest bet for worldwide distrubution though of course not cheap.
Noah