Stanley Flomin
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Well, yes I am watching it on a computer monitor, but the final output will only be watched on a monitor as well. I tried giving it a test render and the interlacing gets rendered as well. I just don’t get why the transitions would be interlaced but not the video…
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thank you everyone for the advice, I will definitely try upscaling in compressor as many of you have suggested. And yes it is in 4:3 aspect ratio. And no they don’t pay well hah. But I guess in this economy I can’t complain.
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Sounds to me like some sort of botched attempt to make the image 4:3 for the web since he said it’s viewed by the client on computer. Why they don’t just export it as 720×540 or 640×480 (or 800×600 for that matter) when it’s all said and done is beyond me.
I was trying to convince them to just leave it at 720×480 but they don’t want to. And yea, it does get viewed on the computer. But I’m not sure what you mean with the 720×540. I do export it as 800×600 but like i said editing it, adding the hundreds of titles that i have to add with having to constantly prerender hours of footage so i could view it normally in the timeline is a huge hassle. That and im upscaling a video and the quality just dies but they don’t seem to agree and I don’t really know how to convince them otherwise.
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Oh I’m certain they aren’t down scaling. I’m partly helping them film so I’m 100% sure on them working with 720×480. But it gets worse, if I render from FCP the qt file squashes everything because they want square pixels. And they want the output from fcp to create a qt file that has the exact size of 800×600 and not ‘squashed'(without having to touch the qt file).
The workflow normal was working in premiere, which for whatever reason even though you tell it to render with square pixels, it would give you an 800×600 unsquashed qt file. Can’t say I know why this is, i’ve looked into the premiere settings to see what the difference is and I couldn’t find anything. -
Jeez, you saved me. I was going crazy saying to myself there’s just got to be something simple I’m missing. I was going to be forced to work with premiere if I couldn’t get it to work….which is odd because when I was using the sequence settings(with the same exact video) in premiere as a reference guide while trying to figure this out….square pixels was checked, but the final render was not ‘squashed’ and this check box never needed any checking in premiere. So its beyond me as to why premieres render was not squashed despite square pixels being checked….
Many thanks!
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I know it would have been faster to draw the mask for a rectangle….but I just used that as an example, unfortunately I have far more complicated shapes, and a ton of them.
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ok I figured out why it wasn’t working, apparently you have to select the “last’ keyframe of the very furthest out of all the layers selected, otherwise you’re just moving them all….many thanks!
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what you say works however, unfortunately it only works with one layer at a time, i have like 30 I need to scale at the same time, I guess I’ll have to precomp and time remap 🙁
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great, thanks a ton, this worked perfectly.
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thanks for the responses guys,
I’m not completely sure what you mean by mastering it but I am essentially doing it all on my own with no one else involved. I was looking for a mpeg2 compressor but either its labeled as something else or I don’t have the encoder. Unfortunately, I don’t have a mac so no FCP for me. I do have quicktime pro and the standard coders that after effects comes with. A few other random encoders but they’re more for web compression like sorensen.
If i can’t get mpeg2 compression due to the lack of having access to fcp or a mac, is there anything else that is good enough for a regular dvd player?
thanks again guys, much appreciated