[Steve Roberts]

Will this help?

https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402801&sliceId=2

[Steve Roberts]

Well, there’s only one resolution for 720p, basically — I think you mean “highest quality”. Set your comp size to one of the two DVCPRO HD 720 presets, then render (through Make Movie) using Best Settings and an Output Module codec suitable for whatever app is receiving your render.

Examples of high-quality Output Module settings:
-TGA or TIFF sequence (use if your machine crashes a lot)
-QT Animation codec
-DVCPRO HD codec (for later editing in a DVCPRO HD timeline)
-Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
-Photo-JPEG codec at 89% or so (if you don’t have enough storage space)

If you’re going to DVD, try Animation.

Did that help?

[Steve Roberts]

The CC sphere layer should not have the 3D switch on. The CC sphere layer should be left as 2D and placed at the bottom of the timeline layer stack.

CC Sphere is a very old effect. As such, its interaction with 3D planes needs to be updated, since it doesn’t interact with AE’s camera or lights, sad to say. So it might not work the way you want.

Have you looked at any of the Conoa plugins?

[Steve Roberts]

Well, I’m one of those guys who believes that the stutter or “judder” is unavoidable, given a progressive frame rate and a medium-speed lateral move. It’s an optical phenomenon, where the persistence of vision breaks down because the move is regular enough that our eyes can discern each frame. That’s the theory, anyway.

(If you have the Bourne Ultimatum DVD, check the aerial bridge shot after the “Gilberto de Piento, your party is waiting” scene. Yikes!)

I don’t think that fields are being added to the playback, if anything, they might just soften the image, but to be honest, I don’t know much about what DVD players do to movies.

In my opinion, if you have to keep the direction and pace of the move, you should render at 60 fps in Maya, bring that into AE and render 29.97 interlaced to smooth it out. It has to be done way back in Maya, since you need to actually create new frames for this to work.

Having said that, if you have Twixtor, you could create the extra Maya frames in AE, then render that as interlaced. With a lateral move, it should work.

Anybody else?

[Steve Roberts]

Did you search the COW for “blowing sand”?

[Steve Roberts]

In the timeline, select the path (mask path, or mask shape) property, copy, select the flare center property, and paste.

[Steve Roberts]

Read the Quicktime 7.4 thread at the top of the posts.

[Steve Roberts]

I just googled “rip” “flash” “video” and found:
https://www.streamingstar.com/flvrecorder.htm

Don’t know it, can’t vouch for it.

[Steve Roberts]

Try aplying paint>vector paint to the footage, using onionskin mode.
Do it every other frame, maybe by precomping the footage, applying posterize time to half the frame rate, then applying VP to the precomp.
Morphing every few frames would be really tedious, because you have to set “from” and “to” points manually, at least in the plugins I’ve used.

[Steve Roberts]

Do you have Pixel Aspect Ratio correction on in the comp?
Is the footage progressive, and AE interpreted it as interlaced?