Sean Kimber
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Thank you both for your response. A simple solution, but for some reason I wasn’t thinking of it. I appreciate it and will give it a shot!
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I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Video card. So, would the animation codec continue to be the best option in my case? I didn’t realize that I shouldn’t change the sequence’s settings and will fix my sequence with the proper clips ASAP. Thank you for the help.
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Final Update, I swear. That seems to have fixed the problem. I exported as a DV/DVCPRO – NTSC file instead of a Quicktime Animation and Final Cut seems happier with that format. Apparently, it doesn’t like the Animation Codec. Thank you very much, again, for all of your help.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I had done all of this, but have narrowed the problem down. The background element for this spot was created in After Effects CS3. I rendered the element in AE using Quicktime Animation at the best settings and in a 720 by 480 format. When I imported the file into FCP and put it on my timeline originally, it said the clip didn’t match the sequence (which I thought was weird, since I had made an NTSC DV format on my easy setup menu) and it asked me if I wanted to change the sequence to match the clip. I said yes. Well, I just deleted that sequence and started over. I noticed before I put the clip on the timeline (and FCP had me change the setting) that the RT menu was complete. However, afterwards, it was that shortened menu I posted before. The ONLY difference between the clip’s settings and the NTSC DV Sequence settings is the compression….Animation vs. DV. So, should I be exporting in a different format in After Effects? Thanks again for all of your help!
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For some reason I don’t have a lot of those options. Here is a screenshot of what comes up when I hit the “RT” Button.
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Here is a link to a screenshot of what the text looks like after rendering. The text is supposed to read “News You Need to Know” It just looks like a lot of jumbled garbage. I figured this might help a bit. I did also try to erase my render files from the second drive before re-rendering the text (with this result). No success. Thanks.
https://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o109/sean_kimber/Picture1.png
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UPDATE: I created a new text clip using the Boris titler (which is a great application I was completely unaware of. Thank you for pointing it out!) The text looked great…until I hit render. Then the same problem occured again. Any ideas? Thanks!
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My sequence is an NTSC DV sequence with lower field first. I unfortunately don’t have a broadcast monitor at the moment, so I only have my computer screen to go by. (I have been bugging the station’s engineer repeatedly for one, but no dice so far). While I have the sequence at the “Fit to Window” setting, I did have it at 100% before and the problem was still there. I actually exported the end part as a quicktime movie, and it showed up on that. I thought the problem was just an interlacing problem, but the shot is frozen on my screen and I’m actually seeing what almost looks like a vertical interlacing distortion.
I will try another program if that’s what’s recommended. I figured that the text and movement was so basic I’d be able to use the text generator itself. Thanks for your help!
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In an effort to try and figure it out myself, I just watched Aharon Rabinowitz’s After Effects Expressions #1 tutorial where he talked about linear function. I tried to follow it and put in this formula
x=(then I used the pickwhip to attach the scale value to the track matte’s scale value)
linear(x,109.8,224.5,48.91,100)I got an error message saying “After Effects warning: Bad argument: argument 1 to linear() must be scalar. Error occured at line 2. Expression disabled.”
What did I do wrong? Thanks.
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All right. This is driving me crazy. I was able to manually keyframe my scale/position values in the other comp that I was previously talking about, but it looks like I’m going to have to use an expression for this one, and I can’t figure out how to figure out the formula. Basically, it’s the same idea as my previous comp, only the camera zooms in instead of out. Basically, if I track the layer that I want to be the “postcard,” it gets too large, because my tracking matte layer’s top value is 224.5%, and my postcard layer is parented to it. So, I know that I have to create an expression on my track matte that says “scale/*”, but I’m not sure what the value of “*” is. Here is what I can tell you. My lowest scale value on the track matte is 48.91% and my upper value is 224.5%. Obviously, I want the top value to be 100% and want the rest to keep the same ratio. If someone could help me with the formula, I would be eternally grateful. (And if you have time to say how you figured out the formula, that would help, too. I’m a firm believer in learning why, not just plugging in numbers). Thanks in advance!
-Sean Kimber
