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Not sure which version of Premiere/AE you are using, or your system specs, but is there a reason you are exporting instead of using Dynamic Link? You’s save a lot of time and resolution if you used this workflow.
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You might also try changing the order of your effects. Of course Keylight should be first, but the stacking order of the ‘Light Wrap’ and ‘Looks’ might be causing an issue.
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“it looks worse than stuff I shot on an sd camera”
It’s because you are reducing it to SD. DVD is SD…period.
There are probably a couple of possibilities for what you are seeing.
1 – You are transcoding to a lower bitrate than you could be, which is the main setting that can affect the quality of your picture. Make sure you transcode to the highest bitrate available for the amount of video you are trying to get onto a DVD. There are several ‘bitrate calculators’ on the internet that will help you do just that.
2 – It may be a perception issue. You shot in HD, edited in Prores 422, then reduced to SD to make a DVD, but your mind is still thinking HD and Prores 422, which your video isn’t even relatively close to any longer.
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These guys know After Effects, so trust when they say “a lot of work”, they mean “A LOT OF WORK!!!”.
If you are just learning After Effects, and have a lot of time, this will be a great learning experience. If you are pressed for time, you seriously may want to consider a reshoot, if you have that ability.
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You probably have a lot of clips that are of the same shot. Pick a particular shot, key it, save that key setting as a preset and drop that preset onto all similar shots. The same with the background for those shots. Get one clip looking how you like, save that Motion Preset, and then drop it on the subsequent similar shot’s background clips.
Now, the problem caused by the talent’s movement. Probably not going to be as easy, but still maybe somewhat ‘duplicatable’. You’re still going to have to apply motion keyframes to the background to match the talent’s movement perspective. However, you may begin to notice some similarities between clips, and can copy those keyframes to the other similar clips. If clips seem to have no similarity to previously keyframes clips, then you’ll probably need to keyframe the backgrounds of those on their own.
Going forward, you may find it easier to create a sequence from each tape clip, and do your keying and motion there, then use those sequences to cut subclips from to build your main timeline. The problem being that you will be spending time working on shots that will not be used in the final timeline, but the flow sometimes is easier.
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First of all, the stand and Mac in the video are more than likely 3D images, not video. An optimal situation if you are handy with 3D. If you really need to go video, you might want to think the opposite of what you’re current thought is – move the camera instead of the subject.
Digital Juice has a wonderful dolly made just for this type of shooting, and you can find many cheaper models on eBay.
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“No reason to delivery on DLT.”
Absolutely correct. Seriously…if your replicator requires tape, find another. They’re way behind the times.
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Never used the HD1400 specifically, but use AJ-D230 and AJ-SD93 regularly via firewire to OnLocation. Now, these are both SD decks, so perhaps the problem is the HD resolution of your video.
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We’ve had the same problem with our library of DVCPRO tapes from a past era. Premiere does not support DVCPRO tape capture any longer. However, you’re in luck – Adobe OnLocation, which is part of the CS5 suite DOES support it!
However, if you are unable to capture via OnLocation, you might have to invest in an HD-SDI capture device to ingest with.
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There is no such thing as an HD DVD. DVD is Standard Definition only. For HD you have to burn to Blu-Ray.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions