Steve Roberts
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[moldyboot] “if the footage was shot interlaced at 29.97fps, your best output for dvd will be interlaced at 29.97.”
I agree. Leave it alone. The best way to get the progressive look is to shoot progressive.
If you really want to deinterlace, try FieldsKit, but I don’t think you’ll get a big improvement, and you’ll just lose image quality, as Kevin wrote.
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It looks like a job for the CC Cylinder effect. Basically, you sort out how your screens will appear inside a large comp that is 2x wide and 1x tall. Try a test with 1000×500 before you commit to a comp size. Making stuff happen inside this comp is most of the work.
Then you drop this comp into the main comp and apply CC Cylinder. Set it up to just show the inside of the cylinder. Move it around until you like it.
To get the reflections, you have to copy the cylinder layer and flop it upside-down, add a bit of blur and reduce the opacity. Check the COW for “raytrace” or “reflections” for more.
If you want different layers of videoscreens showing, you can make that all happen within the 1000×500 comp.
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[Rhett Robinson] “…probably just a few minutes for each kid, depending on camera angle and where they are able to hide in the room”
I believe zygotesoup wrote that the class was 30 minutes long …?
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Sorry. “Senior moment”. 🙂
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I think the scary part is the “once done” part. 🙂 When we’re talking about tracks going off, it could be over frames, seconds. It all depends on how the kids move around.
You should know that this is definitely not a job where the CPU crunches away and you go off and have a coffee or paint the house. You have to sit and watch the whole time, for each track, to see if it goes off. In **slower** than real time. Got it?
Really, if I saw 30 kids tracked on a prime time spot, I’d say “wow, they’ve got budget”.
If the prof has budget, you should look into Mocha or Mocha AE. Ask the Imagineer folks the same things you’ve asked us, as they know the software.
But yep, it’s a good idea to track a few kids, mild and wild, and use that to extrapolate how long it’ll take.
Here’s another solution: get a Wacom tablet, and follow each kid’s head with the pen using the write-on effect in real time or a little slower. Maybe it’ll be faster. Who knows?
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I wouldn’t do it unless I was paid by the hour.
Think about it:
– how many times over a minute is a track likely to go off and require manual repositioning?
– how many students are in the class?
– how long is the class?Now, the students aren’t likely to move that much if it’s a lecture (ZZZ), so the tracks might stick.
But I don’t know of any way to track multiple points at the same time, other than using perspective corner pin tracking to do four at once. Then using expressions, you could tie four dots to the tracks.
I don’t see any limit to the length of the tracks, but tracking for 30 minutes is just silly.Since it sounds as if the prof is thinking out loud, tell him it’ll be a real PITA, and he’ll probably be okay with it.
Anybody else?
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.. or cmd+click (ctrl+click on windows) on the current-time display at the bottom of the comp window, layer window or footage window, or at the top of the timeline.
(it’s in the help under “change time display units” if you search for “timecode”)
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Or maybe the video is progressive, and AE has interpreted it as interlaced. Select the footage in the project window, then “file>interpret footage>main”, and “separate fields>off”.
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AE doesn’t like importing files compressed with MPEG-type codecs. You need to convert it to something that uses all I-frames, such as Photo-JPEG at 89%+ or Animation.
It’s an acquisition codec, not an editing codec, and certainly not a compositing codec. It might even be a “consumer” codec, with very limited editing support.
If you Google AVCHD, you should find some options, Vegas being one of them. Premiere’s support is not clear.
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Thanks for the tip, Derived. It’s good when people post their solutions when they solve their own problems. 🙂