Phillr
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Thinking some more: the clips I created are necessarily “subclips”. They’re “sub-sequences”, they even have the sequence icon in my Subclip bin. These are clip chunks take from my Synced Raw Footage sequence.
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When using AE to do a standards conversion, is the conversion a better quality if converting an Animation created within After Effects (e.g. particle emitter on black background) versus a PAL interview clip.
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There’s no preset option. Can’t do any customization 🙁
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Interpret Footage Menu? where’s that?
Avid Xpress is extremely basic. Literally. Like even when you setup a projects, you can only choose between “NTSC” and “PAL”. Literally only 2 ‘presets’ when setting up a project.
What I think i’m looking to find out is the exact number/percentage to shrink my fake 16:9 footage by to make it look properly. Once I find that number, I can start on my project lol.
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I’m not using Pro, just basic Avid Xpress. Do you know the exact number/percentage by which 16:9 is shrunk by? Does anybody?
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My NLE is Avid Xpress 4.6, and it has no option for ‘interpreting’ 16:9 footage. The only way to make it look normal is to shrink it down vertically. But these are green screen shots, so I only want to squish it down after I export my keyed shots, so that I retain full vertical quality until the final stage.
So I’ll be bringing in full 4:3 shots into AFX, solely for background keying, which will then be exported.
I’m considering resizing it in After Effects, but don’t know the percentage to shrink it by. And I’ll also be creating other motion grpahics in After Effects for this project. I’ll be adding a letterbox to these elements within After Effects, so once I know how much to shrink my source footage by, I’ll know the numbers required for placing my letterboxing Black Rectangles.
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Well I discovered a solution to this problem. I export a Quicktime with Avid Meridien Compressed codec, 2:1. I adjust my render settings to Field Render being “Off”. Then when I import, I tell Avid my footage is non-interlaced. Can anybody explain to me WHY this works?
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After Effects 6.5, Xpress 4.6, Windows 2000, Quicktime 6.5
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whoops, forgot to mention i’m exporting a composition from After Effects 6.5.
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awesome! thanks a bunch!