Paul Conigliaro
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The easiest way would be to use a monospace font.
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The trick here is to use multiple copies of your text layer with various scales, positions, blurs, colors, and transfer modes applied, as well as a couple well placed distortion effects.
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I’m with Dave. It’s difficult to help without more info. A couple things:
Are you using BOTH color key and Keylight to pull your key? If so, that could be one problem right there. Use just one.
Secondly, it sounds like your actor’s shirt is close in color to your screen. I’ve dealt with this a lot on retail shoots where the talent is wearing teal on a green screen. It takes some experimentation and possibly some tedious rotoscoping.
Would you be able to post images of your raw footage and your resulting key?
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Like I said before, compression is a black art full of voodoo. Your best bet is to experiment and see what looks best. I can tell you that a two-pass VBR compression will yield better results than CBR.
Really, the art of compression is a bit beyond the scope of the After Effects forum and it will vary depending on the program used, so again, experimentation is your best friend.
Regarding Vimeo, on many videos there is a link on the right side of the page below the video info to download the source file used. This might go a long way in helping you to determine things like resolution, codec, and bitrate, but won’t help you with things like B-frames and I-frames.
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The vertical lines are not from Shine. It can be replicated with some directional blur on a modified copy of the layer.
Another option would be to look at Starglow and only enabling the vertical glows.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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You’ll want to look around the web a bit for recommendations on compressing for YouTube. Compression is already a dark art filled with voodoo. It gets even more complicated when uploading to sites like Vimeo and YouTube where the file is further compressed.
For what it’s worth, I render out QuickTimes with 2-pass H.264 at 5Mbps to upload to Vimeo. Even at 720p, this tends to hold up, at least on Vimeo. To be honest, I rarely use YouTube*, but I’d imagine they’re using similar compression technologies.
*YouTube is great for easily sharing videos, but I just can’t get behind most of the “community” where it is just far too painful for most of them to comment with any grain of insight… but that’s another story.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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You can purchase DIN on Font Shop. Depending on how many and which variants you need, it will run you US$284-1075. Fonts usually aren’t cheap.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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There are a few options available beyond Automatic Duck.
If you have Premiere CS4 (fully up to date), you can actually import a FCP XML file and send that to After Effects, but I’m not sure how well FX & transformations carry over.
There’s also a script from the Popcorn Island guys.
ProVideo Coalition also has a script available.
Lastly, Boris has a tool called XML Transfer that is a bit more robust, but runs $299.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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Try making sure color profiles are enabled in all the right places. You file should have a profile assigned in the Interpret Footage dialog, your project should have a working space assigned in File:Project Settings… and when you render, your output module should also have the proper color profile assigned.
You might also want to take a look at this white paper from Adobe on color management.
To be honest, I’m not as good at color management as I should be, but this is where I would start. Maybe someone who has a bit more extensive knowledge of color management in AE will chime in a bit later.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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Interpreting the graphic with fields won’t help, since the graphic itself is progressive.
Getting a good composite is always tricky, but you might want to play with adding motion blur if you haven’t already.
Also, are you rendering out with Upper Field First? That should be adding interlacing to your composite as it tracks along.
Adobe CS4, Apple FCS3
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