Paul Stevenson
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Could you create a new comp with the correct pixel aspect ratio and copy in your layers? I have never tried it so I am not sure if it will work.
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Good god man! How long have you got? And how much like Rock N Rolla do you want it?
In brief it’s built up of: Vector/vector like artwork (lots of it), 3D layers, particle effects, wipes, masks and colouring etc. The animation could be mainly taken care of within AE with the camera or by moving the layers in simple ways.
It’s not necessarily complicated per se, but it’s going to be time consuming.
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Walter,
So I hear, I am yet to try it as I have only been on CS6 a few days and old habits die hard 😀
Also the OP never actually mentioned what version he was on, so I thought it worth mentioning.
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It may not be possible to do in one composition, but can’t you pre-comp them/add them to a third comp? That way you never have to leave AE until the final render.
I am just plucking that out of the air as I don’t really understand what your asking. As Walter asks, some screenshots will help.
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I have never seen the film so can you find an example online?
But going from your explanation it sounds like you want to time remap your footage to stop and start where you want, then use another layer(s) to do your fancy bits. I can’t comment on how you might go about that without seeing the intro.
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Whenever you scrub through it will look bad, your computer can’t keep up with the data rate/rendering required to do it at full res. Don’t worry, we are all in the same boat. If you are in CS6 I believe switching the previews to “Off (Final Quality)” will make it look like the export. However this will make scrubbing very annoying and it’s a setting I have never used, or found a need to use. I prefer the “adaptive resolution” setting. It gives you an idea of what’s going on, and when you find the point your after you stop and it renders correctly. These settings are set via the little screen with a lightning strike on it underneath the preview window called “fast previews”.
If it looks bad in RAM preview change the settings mentioned above.
If it looks bad when the play head isn’t moving then you have a problem and we need to investigate more.
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Is there something low res in the mix somewhere? Be it a comp before render or rendering it out at a lower res and then the player is up scaling it?
Are you GPU rendering? I haven’t tried it in months, but the last time I did it didn’t produce very crisp images.
A screen shot or two would also be handy.
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I second VLC.
My go to player for everything on (virtually) any platform, even plays broken files (depending on what’s broke) and due to using inbuilt codecs means you don’t need to install codec packs and get yourself into all sorts of problems down the road.
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720×480 is correct for NTSC, not for PAL, just putting that out there in case it makes a difference to your black bars.
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Oh ruddy hell!
All this piddling about and it’s a bloody bug!
It seems that the preview window is a bit buggy and depending on the size you have it at (by stretching it), regardless of the settings you have the zoom set to, it can make your video blurry.
I don’t know if the video would have been blurred or not, but I started doing this to overcome the fact that it was blurred. Surely the quality of the video render can’t be linked to size you have the preview window?