[Robert Moix]

“The starting resolution is there no matter what”. Really? If I zoom-in to the HDV clip using Pan&Crop and monitor the output looking at the monitor window (good>auto) I think I’m loosing quality. Theorically I would be able to zoom-in 40% without noticing any pixelation, but…

To sum up, what I would expect from importing a HDV clip to a PAL 720×576 project is to have a huge HD 1440×1080 frame and I would need to zoom-out in order to match the PAL 720×576 frame. At least, that’s what I do when working with After Effects. But there is no “zoom-out step” in my workflow when aplying Pan&Crop effect. The HDV frame is “aparently” PAL resolution.

Furthermore, If I hit 4:3 std aspect ratio preset I get correct aspect ratio but with two tiny black borders on each side of the frame. Right-clicking and selecting “Match output aspect” fixes it. The point is that I think it is better not to select this option so that Vegas would not stretch the footage at all but rather crop to size, thus preserving any loose of picture quality. Any comment about this?

Thanks again for your help.

[Robert Moix]

Dave LaRonde, thanks for your interest. You’re right TV3 runs also C33 (documentaries…), k3 (children entertainment), 3/24 (24h News channel), TVCi (Satellite) and the most impressive, TV3HD (the first HDTV channel in Spain).

I will let you know if I find anything else related to this effect.

Greets.

[Robert Moix]

It’s not very obvious to me. Besides, how can you adequately judge an image when all you have is cruddy YouTube video?

The youtube video is just for ilustration purpouse only. I’ve seen this effect many times on TV. They use it always when they need to show a webpage in live News. So, this effect appears 2 or 3 times a day. Honestly, too much work for the graphic staff if they have to remake or replicate the webpage, split it into layers, and so on. Sure they do something we do not know and it must be simple and sure they do not build the effect from the ground up, that would be a waste of time in live News. I will give them a call and ask…!

And yes, it is a Catalan TV station called TV3 located in Barcelona and known for using always cutting edge technology and with a solid R+D department. For this reason, I just though that they could have developed their own software to do the effect.

Thanks again for the responses and I’ll go on investigating.

[Robert Moix]

First of all, thank you for your responses. I would like to point out some things though. Obviously, only the text is vectorial, the rest of the images, videos aren’t. So, is there a way to make the text of a webpage vectorial with “one click” and import the vector-webpage in AE ? Some say that just save the web as a PDF, but if I do so, Acrobat changes the layout and does some weird things.

I must add that the youtube video is from a TV station and they use this technique to show websites in News. So the method they use must be quick, and straightforward. Either they use a high end scan converter with “navigation” capabilites or developed their own software to do so. Anyway, belive me, I have seen that techique live on TV and is gorgeous, perfectly clean text even when zoomed in.

Any other ideas?

Thank you.