[N. Row]

Echo will only affect animatable properties. If you make a solid and animate it to scale or rotate for instance, place that comp in another comp and apply Echo to it there, you should see the trails.

Properties that are not keyable will be ingored by Echo.

[N. Row]

Open the movie in the QTPro player. It must be the “Pro enabled” quicktime. If I remember correctly you “Get movie Properties” for the video track and then set “Quality” to high. Save and re-import.

This might do the trick. This does’t happen with .mov’s from an Avid however. I feel is a little bit of a dirty trick for Apple to require you to repurchase Quicktime to enable you to have to resave all the exported QTs you may deal with.

If I’m wrong on this, I apologize, Apple!

[N. Row]

Can’t be certain, but it may be possible you received a single field export from, say an Avid, therefore removing pulldown on such low-res footage will be difficult or impossible.

If I’m right, you should ask the folks who gave you the footage to re-digitze it with a 2 field resolution so you may remove the pulldown.

Or…
The fields may have been merged somewhere else in the process.

If you are currently doing prelim animations, you could either just use your best guess at pulldown removal, or use the “Posterize Time” plug-in to force the footage to 24fps. Doing that will create motion artifacting however.

Hope this helps.

[N. Row]

Actually, I found some info that clarified this a bit.

1.778:1 is the same as standard anamorphic aspect, or 16:9. Havn’t heard the “1.778 aspect” in a conversation in a long time (if ever).

Well, hopefully this may help someone else! I fell a bit, er, embarassed to have bothered you all now!

For the SD footage, Ill just need to place it in a 16:9 comp and place it into the custom 846×486 conform comp. The fields issue, I’m hoping will not be an issue and the footage was acquired with prog-scan. I’m a bit too far down the production chain for THAT to be the mistake it probably will be…

Still, is there a way to output that 96 ppi from within AE?

Thanks!