[Sascha Engel]

Thanx, I gonna read into that, after project is off my table.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Hi Freddy,

first of all, I do personally think, that if you shot on the AF101 to the SD Cards and not a Nano Flash or something else less compressed,
then there’s no need for ProRes HQ. ProRes or even LT will do.
I just had a project like this and no problems with the quality.
Why do you export as H.264? The final Output? Does just the H.264 look bad or already the logged & transfered ProRes material?

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

I do think Compressor does a pretty good job.
The problem could be indeed rather that it’s HD footage downscaled to SD.
With the right Compressor settings it will look a lot better.
My own workflow usually involves AE: I downscale it there to SD, which AE does an awesome job in,
and then I use Compressor to create the DVD file from that SD Version.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

…and one more question:

I never understood the difference between:

“Render 10-Bit material in high-precision YUV” or “Render all YUV material in high-precision YUV”.

What’s the difference? And which one should I usual go for?

Thanx.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Thanx guys for the helpful advice.
Yes, I did grading and there is some transitions that are kind of effects & Vignettes as well.
The Problem:

When I rendered out in 10-Bit, the Effect “G Film – Interpositive 1”, which is apples to a graphics gets totally messed up.
Any idea why that happens? I don’t wanna replace it with the normal crossfade, because on that bit the normal Fade does not look good.
In 8-Bit, there is no problem with that transition.

Greetings,

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Thanx a lot Roland.
Now it’s crystal clear.
I really appreciate your effort to explain that.
Makes expressions look much less scary now – at least this one 😉

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

I am sorry Roland, I did not understand, that it was specifically to the y-coordinates.
Would it be too much to ask, what determines exactly what parameter in this script.
I tweeked it with the trial & error method, but would like to understand it.
Just, if it does not make you upset – cause that would really not be my intention.

Thanx a lot.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Hi Roland,

but how to I restrict the smoothening only to the y coordinates?

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Hi Roland,

I think the tracking is fine. But yes, maybe I’d should attach the expression to the actual Null Layers that carry the tracking data.
What I did again in a nutshell: I have a Pan shot from left to far, which needs several times new track points. I have have the whole shot split in 4 segments, and parented those 4 Nulls carrying the tracking data together. That worked just fine. But the Pan is of an extremely zoomed shot, so specially in the vertically plane it moves a bit up and down. I have a simple text tool title, that I then attached to the tracking data of the Nulls.
All works well, just the tracking data is too detailed so the text is making also little y axis changes doing the trip, which are unpleasant for the eyes. So, I wanted to smoothen the the y coordinates. Maybe I simply do the smoothening to the tracking data on the Nulls then?

Thanx.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

I alos think I do not see much of an effect, since I applied it to position, and the position value is not changing.
The text layer is parented to the tracked Null Layer.