[Stephen Reber]

Hey Joe, I have found another thing that is part of my problem, and I don’t know why it’s happening.

I totally rebuilt my project. At the beginning I just built my main menu and button highlights, everything looks great, as you can see by the first picture, the highlight lines up with the letters/button (our conferences). But after I finished the entire project, the buttons are out of alignment. I took screen captures of each of the menus (from when I tested the menu at the beginning and the menu after my DVD was completely finished). You will notice that the finished menu (not the buttons/highlight) has shrunk compared to the first menu.

Any Idea of whats causing this?

Stephen

[Stephen Reber]

Thanks for getting back to me so fast Joe =]

I’m mildly confused (really not a hard thing to do)…I know this is not the AE forum, but maybe you can un-confuse me.

I have my 720 x 480 animation on the stage in AE, and convert the settings from square pixels to .9. The image seems to stretch out, and now is longer that the stage. I have been shrinking the image to 90% in the x so it would fit back in the stage… is that a no no??

Thanks again…

Stephen

[Stephen Reber]

Hey Jeff, thanks for the quick response =]

I’m using CS3 with XP64. I think I get what you’re saying…

If my Menu starts at time 1 min, plays to 2 min 30 sec, with loop point that starts at 1 min 30 sec, that means my buttons won’t become active until 1 min 30 sec??

To answer your question, my buttons are totally unaccesable.

Stephen

[Stephen Reber]

… just noticed that the wiggle expression shuts off my random expression. How do I fix that?

[Stephen Reber]

Dan…

Thanks for the help!

I actually have another question. I was looking to wiggle a scale value in one direction, and I found you expression on your site. But I am trying to figure out why what I was doing before didn’t work…

This didn’t work…
rs = seedRandom(1,1);
r = random(1,100);
w = wiggle(1,40);

x = scale[0] + (rs,r)+ (w) ;
y = scale[1]+ (rs,r);

[x,y];

I can’t figure out why, because adding the “(rs,r)” worked, how come + (w) won’t.

Then I tried…
rs = seedRandom(1,1);
r = random(1,100);
w = wiggle(1,40);

x = scale[0] + (rs,r) ;
y = scale[1]+ (rs,r);

y + w;

[x,y];

Thought that would work too, but no.

Adding your expression finally worked…
rs = seedRandom(1,1);
r = random(1,100);
w = wiggle(1,40);

x = scale[0] + (rs,r) ;
y = scale[1]+ (rs,r);

[value[0],w[1]];

Why??

Thanks again for your help Dan, or anyone else who want to chime in.

[Stephen Reber]

Hey RoRK…

Thanks for getting back to me. I am just correcting the lighting and coloring, using brightness/contrast and hue/saturation, just some simple clean-up work. I’m not using AE lights, sorry if I confused you.

For render output, I used the default WMV with no compression. I’m told it’s supposed to render as clean as the original, but it’s not. So I don’t know if it’s my graphics card, I’ve got some settings off, or it’s just plainly my computer putting up a fuss. LOL

Thanks again…

Stephen

[Stephen Reber]

Thanks again for the help Hector, I did a little more trouble shooting, and fixed the settings on my transfer device. The problem seems to be when I render from AE to an uncompressed file.

So I’m gonna skip on over to the AE board and bug them for a while.

Thanks again =]

[Stephen Reber]

Hay Hector…

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately I still have one problem I am dealing with. The video that I get when I import, then render in AE (w/ no compression)it has a lot more noise than the original.

How can I fix this? The video on the DVD was shot in digital, so it is really nice and clean, and I don’t want to send the final presentation to my client that is less than so.

Thanks again =]

[Stephen Reber]

I just noticed my DVD player has only and analog output in the back, no digital coaxial-out port.

Would I be correct to assume that the DVD going through analog cables may be the cause of the noise and pixalization of the video??

[Stephen Reber]

Larry… Thanks-a-billion for the help and advice!!

Stephen =]