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I can only tihnk of pixel aspect ratios (PAR) coming into play here. What are your source files’ screen size and PAE? Comp settings? And Render and Output settings?

It’ll be interesting to get to the bottom of this.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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Howzabout Save Ram Preview. No interlacing, AFAICR, but that should sort things out for now. Apologies for stating the obvious but ar eyou certain that what you saw was the RAM Preview and not the Tracking/Layer Pane? Did you click on Apply to the correct layer? Did you ensure that there were no other keyframes on that layer?

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Premiere and AE uses the same MPEG-2 export engine. It’s a waste of time to render out from AE to bring the resultant file into PPro. Did you try to import the AEP into PremierePro, a copy and past of AE’s Timeline?

If you’d like to have player controls for your audio and movies in PowerPoint, then select, embed media object. I may be wrong with the actual phrase used in the menu. But it’s different from the add audio/movie menu command, which doesn’t provide a playback controller.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Have a read on Tim Wilson’s &page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/ProRes01/index.html” TARGET=_blank>Apple ProRes 422 which covers HDV in a way that’ll help you sort things out.

One other CODEC to consider is Cineform’s Neo Player. It’s cross-platform and supports AVI and QT architectures and does AVI2QT and QT2AVI conversions. Sounds good. But take note that I’ve not used it b4. But it’s a solid company.

The thing to take note of with HDV is that it is an acquisition CODEC. It’s not optimized for post-production work. That’s where interdiate CODECs come into play. The choice you make depends on the platform of your choice and the final delivery medium. In short, lots more options and headaches. The good thing is that you only have to work this out once for each workflow that you have. Then it’s a case of rinse and repeat.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Are you on a Mac or a PC? And which version of AE are you working on?
What are your Render and Output settings like?

You shouldn’t be in 3:2 aspect ratio – it’s definitely a user-error. If it looks dark then brighten it up a wee bit in AE. You could also try rendering to WMV9. Better image quality with smaller file sizes. I would test a short segment of the the footage at 1/2 screen size and double the size during playback as the WMV CODEC does a decent job with scaling during playback if full-rez isn’t giving you the desired quality or frame rate during playback.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Any file format will do. How large are your original files and how small are the proxies – in terms of pixel resolution?

The obvious is to ensure that you’re working with the proxies. I normally use QuickTime’s Video CODEC. And for HD work, it really speeds things up.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Edit and then key out your footage before color correcting. If you’re concerned about time issues, then greak down your shots into different light schemes. From each group, select a typical piece of footage to work with. Safe the settings for other clips from the same group once editing is done. Rinse and then repeat likewise for other groups.

You may want to convert your HDV to a lossless CODEC for your intermediate work as HDV seems to be horribly slow for anything other than basic editing.

Check out Tim Wilson’s very recent article which covers HDV editing and onlining issues.
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/ProRes02/03.html

Good Luck
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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Since it’s only five characters, it’s quite easy to do it one letter at a time. One text layer for each character, using Character Offset as the Animator property. Use Echo within an Adjustment Layer to achieve the Raining effect. Goto https://www.asciitable.com to check on the values you have to input for Character Offset. As a guide for reading the table, Zero is character value 48.

Keyframing Source Text will end up with a ‘flash’ frame when the Source Text value changes – not as elegant as it can be.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

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There are many more options available within the Render Queue. QTs Animation CODEC at 92-96% is pretty clean.

We get too many folks running here with issues after discovering that they’ve been exporting instead of using the Render Queue.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace