Robert Morris
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How about a way to just bend a layer in 3d? Say I have a line of text that I want to bend in Z-space like a wave?
P.S. – sorry for the double post
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How about a way to just bend a layer in 3d? Say I have a line of text that I want to bend in Z-space like a wave?
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How about a way to just bend a layer in 3d? Say I have a line of text that I want to bend in Z-space like a wave?
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I see that Canopus has a codec pack for purchase with their editing package. Here is the info I found:
“Canopus is offering EDIUS SP for HDV customers the Canopus Codec Option Pack, which includes the DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD software codecs. Developed in collaboration with Panasonic, the Canopus DVCPRO HD codec provides EDIUS SP for HDV with high-quality HD video and unrivaled realtime HD nonlinear editing performance with full native DVCPRO HD (SMPTE 370M) compliance. The Canopus Codec Option Pack will also allow for the direct import of DVCPRO HD QuickTime .MOV files into EDIUS Pro. Providing direct lossless HD capture and print-to-tape functions using the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A VTR in native 1080i via EDIUS SP for HDV’s FireWire connector, EDIUS SP for HDV with the Canopus Codec Option Pack is a cost-effective editing solution for DVCPRO HD on Windows-based systems.”
But at $999 for just the codec pack (and you probably have to have a registered version of their Edius SP) it’s not actually a “cost-effective” solution. What are they basing that on? The fact that it may be the ONLY solution for Windows??
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I have this same problem. I’m a compositor and I work in After Effects on a PC. More and more, I work with clients who are using FCP HD for editing. And I can’t read the exported files. I’ve been searching for a DVCPRO codec for Windows Quicktime for some time now. Ultimately, any compositing work should be done on Uncompressed footage, so I usually ask the editor to export from FCP as Animation Uncompressed. This offers optimal quality. But if the editor just wants me to look at a rough cut, having to export as Animation takes much longer and is cumbersome. PLEASE, can someone help in the search for a Windows Quicktime DVCPRO codec? I’ve tried the ones offered by Pinnacle, Matrox, and Main Concept. None will read the FCP HD Quicktimes.
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I used to render my AE files to uncompressed AVIs and bring it into Encore DVD for transcoding to DVD. But since my projects have gotten larger and longer (and since I’ve found less problems doing it this new way) I’ve since started rendering directly to MPEG2 in AE 6.5. Encore’s transcoding has had problems with 24P footage. There’s been stuttering and loss of quality. AE’s MPEG2 rendering options far exceed it. Plus, it saves me a lot of intermediate hard drive space. Not that that is an issue for you, but it saves you an extra step anyway. Hope that helps
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Your first suggestion is what I did in my DVD project, except that my timelines had the override set to the menu. But I’ve read that the playlist feature gives much more flexibility to DVD navigation. I have Encore 1.5, so I will probably try it out. Thank you so much for your advice. It’s been VERY helpful!
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Is this advice still applicable with today’s DVD burners and media? I burn my DVDs at 4x and have very few bad discs. On the other hand, I have tried to create a loopable DVD using Encore DVD and have had endless problems. Even when I preview in the program, the looping doesn’t work properly. I have 3 music videos on a DVD. I have a menu with 3 buttons (one for each music video) and then a button below to loop them all. The button below plays the first video timeline. That timeline is set to play the next vide as an end action. The second plays the third, etc. But when I preview, it plays all three videos in sequence fine, then it starts to play each one twice for soe reason. It’s very odd. Then, sometimes it jumps back to the menu. Does anyone know if this is still just glitchy software? I hope the pro-sumer DVD technology can work out some of these bugs and inconsistencies. Thanks for any advice.
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Yeah, I tried viewing it by Explorer Folders. All that does is list them in a different way. I can’t move them around at all. I guess if I go into Explorer and reorganize the folders, it would show up there the same way. But yeah, that’s the same as just putting them into an “inactive folder”. I wouldn’t want to screw anything up with AE. I was hoping there was a way to organize them inside AE. But perhaps not. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
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That zit thread was great! I didn’t think to do a search for “zit”. Go Chris Smith! Your explanation triggered it for me. I do the lightening trick all the time in Photoshop with the History Brush. But I guess I just didn’t apply that knowledge to AE yet. I’d still like to master the vector paint tool in AE eventually. I hear it can do a lot of retouching work. Thanks again!