Rich Rubasch
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How about more organic movement, like where you have an eagle and his wing becomes a hand and you want him to do a thumbs up? Would Flash or Toon Boom Studio be a better approach if it is much more than just swingin on a pivot point? It would be more like tweening than just pivoting.
Just curious because I might have one coming up and I didn’t even consider AE to do it….I immediately thought of Toon Boom first, then Flash.
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At 3 full minutes it will be a chore to keep it under 4.5 megs. Couple things….what will be the final frame size of the MP4? I suggest using 15 frames per second. This can help with overall quality. Also, crop as much from the image as you can. That helps pull things in and there will be less to encode for each frame.
It will be tough for DSL users to be able to stream them smoothly.
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I think it has bee pretty well documented that componend and HDMI are different. This goes back to the DVCAM…the SDI output was always cleaner than the component or Firewire inputs….not sure why, it just looked a little sweeter.
Bob Zelin certainly saw somenting with the HD MI from Convergent.
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I like the honest approach and have an honest conversation with the client. They are not the easiest part of the job, but I can say that more than 80% of the time the client coughs up at least a little more money. Be as fair about is as you can….in other words you can say that the clients requests created about 8 additional hours of editing but you are asking for only half of your normal rate to do these cleanups… Most of the time they will bite on this. Most important is that they know how much beyond the original estimate things went…in hours and dollars.
If it comes to it, offer to have them pay the additional amount in 90-120 days…sometimes giving them a little more time can help make the “sale”.
Sometimes I let the client know when I DON’T charge them for changes. If it was a bad design, or clunky animation, or if I didn’t clean up the audio that was clearly bad, I tell them I fixed it and won’t bill them for the fixes. They appreciate this and will remember it.
I also will warn the client BEFORE I make their changes what it will take, how much it will add to the estimate. I just made this call today and got an additional $500 for making a bunch of changes that were the client’s last minute decisions, even though I had said I would stick to a number. They understood and paid it.
I like to keep communication going throughout the project so these things aren’t surprises at the end of the project.
Good luck.
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HDMI rocks. It is the way to go if you want maximum quality. See Bob Zelin’s review of the Convergent MI box.
I have it on an M25U deck and it is brilliant.
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Sounds like you might be hitting a 2 gig file size limit. What drive are you saving to? You aren’t trying to save AVI files are you?
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They are for playback for QT Pro. They don’t actually alter the clip. Only how it displays on a computer monitor.
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Go with CBR one pass. Set the bitrate to around 600-900 kbts. Set your frame size (I like 480 x 360). In the advanced tab make sure you have the input set to interlaced.
Audio I like around 80 kbts.
VBR will give you those green ghosties.
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Try MPEG Streamclip (squared5.com). It is a good place to start.
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It is entirely possible that in a multi-pass variable bitrate encode on a 20 minute video that you could have a long encode. Not sure what your source clip was exactly….I assume the Apple Intermediary codec? What final frame size movie are you looking to create? Same as the original HDV? Just full screen?
An HD DVD is actually a high bitrate MPEG-2, and H.264 is for computer playback. Which one are you really trying to accomplish?
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