[Scott Clark]

I’ve replied with updates– any thoughts?

[Scott Clark]

Dave, thank you for your response.

As far as final delivery, this is going to be a web-based video, and so I would like to finish in h.264, but if I am going to need to go to an intermediate format for working in AE then I’ll do that.

I work on a PC, and on this project I’m using Vegas Pro 9.0c 64-bit. It handles the footage well enough for my purposes in this case. I’d love to take the easy route and buy Cineform’s NeoScene but this project is on a very tight budget so I’d like to explore another option first– converting the files via Vegas or another program I have already, ie MPEG Streamclip or AVS.

So then my question would be: what filetype (and specifications) would you recommend to convert these files to for use in AE, and likewise for exporting before delivery?

The clips were shot in 1080/24p — I’d assume I would bring them in as uncompressed AVI files and export them in the same fashion?

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Scott

[Scott Clark]

Zack, thanks a bunch. This is exactly the info I was looking for!

[Scott Clark]

You can lower the saturation level by applying and tweaking the HSL adjust effect in VideoFX. Are you sure the TV you’re viewing these DVDs on is properly calibrated?

[Scott Clark]

Thanks for your input. That looks like it potentially could work for my needs; unfortunately because the element I will be using is such a small part of this project it’s hard to justify the cost of that program. I will keep it under consideration, though. Let me know if you have any other thoughts. Thank you.

[Scott Clark]

I do have Photoshop CS4, but I’m not terribly familiar with its 3D capabilities. Is it possible to extrapolate a 3D image from a 2D line drawing & animate it? Or is there a particular 3D object format that can be input and animated?