Simon Bonner
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In the render queue, click on the downwards facing arrow button between where it says lossless and output module. Select from the menu Lossless with alpha. Then render as usual. AE recognises the rendered video’s alpha channel; I’m not sure about Vegas as I don’t use it.
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Do you mean choppy as in playback starts to stutter? This is probably because the file sizes are huge and your computer is having a hard time keeping up. The original will be smooth because it’s mpeg, compressed and small. Once you burn the file to DVD it won’t be a problem anymore. Assuming this is your problem…
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I know 1024×576 looks correct in AE, but DVD only supports 720×576. That’s the resolution you want.
The ratio of 720×576 is 5:4, as you’ve seen, but the SCREEN aspect ratio will be 16:9 (as long as you select DV widescreen and not standard DV), because the pixels are wider than they are tall (they’re non-square).
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Hi there,
If you’re going to be writing to a PAL DVD, you’ll need to use one of two comp settings: PAL DV or PAL DV widescreen. These are the formats that DVD supports. They are non-square pixel formats, so unless you toggle on the pixel aspect ratio correction switch (at the bottom of the composition panel in AE7+, I’m not sure about 6.5 as I’ve never used it) the logo will look horizontally squashed (it will look fine when you render it, whether you toggle the switch or not).
You may have to live with the black bars (letter/pillar boxing) if your logo doesn’t fit the screen.
Output with no compression. Your DVD software will have to transcode the video from AVI anyway, so if you compress from AE you’ll be compressing twice.
Hope this helps,
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Maybe you could precompose as Jack suggests, but precompose ALL the layers, then copy ALL the layers from the precomp and paste them back into the main comp (your main comp will have a precomp at the top and all the other layers below)
Next, toggle the visibility off for the adjustment layer and all layers you want the adjustment layer to affect in the MAIN comp, and toggle the visibility off for the layers you don’t want the adjustment layer to affect in the PRECOMP.
Though this will double the size of your project, it will mean that all the layers are present in both comps so parenting will not be affected.
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Maltaannon recently posted a tutorial which I think will help you.
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/high-pass/
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As I suspected, I’ve discovered that the opening sequence for Juno is fully “handmade”, which I suspect means drawn by hand, so possibly no wiggling at all. The font itself isn’t even a font, just handwriting.
The opening sequence at title designer’s website
Designer’s Flickr album of how the sequence was made
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The ‘wiggling’ of the background, which looks like rotoscoped live action footage (i.e. it’s been traced by hand, or an effect that looks like it’s by hand) is there because the illustrator’s pen stokes from frame to frame are not perfectly accurate. This is technically an artefact of this kind of animation, though it is sometimes (like in this instance) used intentionally for the effect. It’s called boiling.
The wiggling of the text could be approximated easily in AE. Add a text layer and set keyframes for the rotation and position properties at the in and out points of the layer. Then open the wiggle panel (you can read about how the process works more fully in the help files) and use it to add a subtle wiggle to both rotation and position. A frequency of 3 per second might look about right. Then select the keyframes, right click on one of them, and choose “toggle hold keyframes”. This will mae the text “jump” from one position / rotation to the next, more closely approximating the style of the titles in the movie.
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Ah, it hadn’t occurred to me that this might not be motion graphics… Well, you could try corner pinning it but it might not look too good.
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As someone who works with PAL widescreen, I can confirm that this will work on a PAL tv.
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