Simon Bonner
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Yeah, your dvd software will compress the animation to mpeg for the dvd and, assuming your footage has no other problems, it will play fine. However, if you’re delivering via a playable dvd (as opposed to a data dvd) you’re going to want to downgrade the dimensions of the movie. DVD only supports standard definition (720 x 576(PAL)/480(NTSC).
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Hi Roger,
You don’t need Flash – I put some FLVs on the web without needing it. If you google “embed FLV in webpage” you’ll get some good info. You just need the relevant code to whack into your page and I think a javascript file to put in the same directory.
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From the looks of this video, it seems they are not using true 3D. Just placing 2D elements in 3D space and flying the camera through them. But perhaps you could take a look at the tutorials on videocopilot.net about light streaks made using particular. They are made to glow in that tut’, but could be black on white.
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This might just be because you are using the QT animation codec which is an intermediate lossless codec: I assume your final vid is many GBs in size? This is a good format for archiving or if you’re going to do further processing on your footage, but not for final delivery or even watching on your computer. It’s just too big. Try rendering out a compressed QT – e.g. h.264 – and see if the problem persists.
By the way, you may not need to go through all the rigmarole of using Andrew’s preset, depending on the nature of the naimated bg. You could just interpret the footage to play at the correct frame rate for your comp. If it’s going to fast / slow, enable time remapping and drag the keyframe at the end until you’ve got the speed you want.
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Try setting the frame rate to be preserved while nested or in render queue, that might be the problem. I am assuming the comp you drop it into is 24fps aswell, not 25/30?
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Sometimes a video can take a long time to render but be small in file size once it’s done, so that’s fine. You should also not worry about items out of view being ‘included’ in the movie. If a comp is 720×576 pixels (or whatever), those are the only pixels that will be in the final movie file.
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Interframe compression is the basis of formats like MPEG. You would need an uncompressed version of your footage. I think I read that you already tried to render Quicktime versions of your files: make sure you don’t render using compressed codecs like MPEG4 – render usng the animation codec or photo jpeg (and make sure you have a good many free gigs of hard drive space, animations are generally massive). Or uncompressed AVI should work too. Not sure why you’ve had problems with AVIs so far, maybe they were compressed? DivX?
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AE does not deal well with any footage that has interframe compression. It also doesn’t deal well with uncompressed audio. In fact, you’re better off using another programme to process audio.
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It sounds like it could be a high demand render. Apologies that I can’t be any more help. It seems like it might just be a case for an overnight render…
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Do you have a render heavy effect (e.g. CC force motion blur, fractal noise) applied to footage at that high res? You may have to provide more info on the setup of your comps.
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