Simon Bonner
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I would agree with Erik on these points. However, you shouldn’t just go for square pixels every time – non-square pixels are the norm for tv. QT player just can’t tell whether pixels are square or non-square so assumes they’re square. Your stuttering, as Erik suggests, is likely to be due to a high data rate. But only compress your video if you’re not going to work on it any more before delivery. For example, if you’re going to edit your clips together and render the final movie out, work with your high data rate footage. Re-compressing over and over will give you terrible final results.
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Dan Ebberts has made a tutorial on how to do this very thing.
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/looping-wiggle.html
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I have never used the export to encore command, but perhaps what it is doing is ready-creating an mpeg for you at a standard bit rate. I have exported uncompressed videos many dozens of GBs in size, and well over 1:30 hrs, and it’s all fit on a conventional dvd. I guess in that case, Encore transcoded it and compressed it to a lower quality mpeg than it would normally choose to do so it could fit it on there.
So try simply rendering your video as an uncompressed avi and importing it into encore. When you finish setting up your dvd project, build the disc and (hopefully) encore will compress the video to fit.
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You may also like to refer to Aharon’s podcast tutorials here at the Cow on how to avoid the boomerang effect, which is where you get random unwanted movement between two keyframes of the same value. Just go to the podcasts menu and choose AE.
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The shortcut, on my UK keyboard at least, it to hit the apostrophe key. On my keyboard this is also the @ key, though I know in the states the @ key is one of the number keys. It’s the one two to the left of the return key and just under the [ key.
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You are trying to rotate a mask? If so, select it make a rotation keyframe. Move forward in time and hit cntl+t with the mask selected (not the layer) to open the free transform bounding box. Use the pan behind tool to move the anchor to where you want it, then rotate the mask’s bounding box. Hit enter to confirm the transformation.
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I echo the comment about the effects. When importing Prem 2.0 to AE 7 I found that fades are replaced by obscurity keyframes and function correctly, but all the shots I had flipped horizontally and/or vertically were reset to their original settings. Worth bearing in made re: workflow.
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Take a look at the AE podcast, right down at the bootom of the page, for lip syncing. You don’t need expressions, just time remapping.
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