Roman Laney
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Dan,
Great thanks for the insight! I do have the ExtendScript components… I will start digging into that more. Thank you for the suggestion about ignoring the AE keyframe data… good to get new eyes on the idea before I start.
-Roman
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Did you check if Depth of Focus is on in your camera? You want it off for very crisp images. That would cause some blurring possibly… Just an idea.
-R
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Antoon,
You have discovered a little known disfunction with Flash. After about 2000 frames, Flash will loose sync (consistantly). The solution is to put sync pops at the front and back of the animation. That is a one frame flash frame with an accompaning loud beep of blip. When those are in the Flash file you will be able to sync the audio in AE. Once your new Footage and audio with sync pops are imported in, you will need to use the time streatch funtion in AE to scale the audio. I have found that scene lengths around 6 mins require a squash of 99.8 percent. Apply that to the audio and then synch your front pop. Then check the end pop. You’ll have to finesse it to get it just right. I have asked my pals with real editing systems, Avids and such, and this sorta thing is pretty common place… Getting picture lock is hard, you just have to do the work to get the synch. Let us know if that helps.-R
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dave,
I figured it out!!! I needed to set the interpret footage to anti-alias “more accurate”… that did it… Yay!
Now I have a question… is there anyway to force AE to use that setting everytime rather than having to do it for all the “texture” layers? I know… never happy…
-R
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No, your right… that works fine… It’s just that I need a deliverable file type. I work in TV animation and I am heading up a BG dept that must provide massive amounts of location plates per episode. So my need to get everything into illustrator is mostly born from wanting to be able to hand off a single file type to an overseas studio and have it instantly be ready for AE. I could send the illustrator file and the ps file… but then I rely on other people to put it together which gives me the willys. We could do it here in AE… but it’s another step in an already long series of steps… and any change to those individual files can totally mess up the comp in AE. I know it all sounds insane, but the results are worth it. I am planning to just send rasterized version since I can’t sort this problem with illustrator out… unless someone knows how to get rid of the ugly white pixels… anyone?
-R
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Well I should have been more specific about the process… I don’t copy the formerly vector images back into Illustrator from PS… just the new Raster ones… and then re-reg them to the original vector art in Illustrator… So yeah I see your point… but the vector remains vector and the raster remains raster… The main benifit is the scale ability of Illustrator in AE… The Raster art may become jaggy… but becuase there is tight vector art behind it… it holds up for extreme close-ups.
I just wonder if anyone has ever seen this issue with illustrator… why does it make white pixels all over the place? I know there are other ways to do this… I just wonder if anyone has a fix for how Illustrator draws Raster artwork…. Is there a setting some place or other?
Thanks
-R