[Steve Roberts]

How are you playing the movie? It may be too big for your computer to play back smoothly. If so, you should compress to a codec your computer can play if that’s what you want. We’ll need more details on your needs before we continue.

Anyway, import it into AE again and check for missing frames.

[Steve Roberts]

Your original comp is 16×9. Wide.
The client wants 4×3, which is 16×12. Narrow.
You made a mistake by working in 16×9, or your client changed the specs late in the project.

You have two choices if you want no black bars:
1) squeeze the original so it all fits on the screen. This will look strange.
2) cut off the left and right sides of the original. This will lose image on the sides.

Here is one way to render:
1) drag the comp into a new DV NTSC comp.
2) scale so the original comp fills the new comp (cmd+opt+f), or scale so the original comp is cut off on the sides (cmd+opt+shift+G).

If you can convince the client to use black bars, then scale the original comp (in the new comp) using cmd+opt+shift+H.

Render the DV NTSC comp.

[Steve Roberts]

Guess I’d better click “options” more often … I tend to ignore it. Bad Steve!

Thanks, Roland.
Steve

[Steve Roberts]

You could contact Mercury Jones — the site is still there, but with no presets, apparently.

Have you Googled “credit roll” and “after effects”? Maybe add “flicker free”?
also:
https://mograph.net/board/index.php?showtopic=12708

By the way, did you know that a credit roll should move at at multiple of the frame rate? For 24fps, it should move at 24 pixels per second, or 48, 72 and so on.

[Steve Roberts]

… but it would be a neat feature!

[Steve Roberts]

That makes two blind fools … I can’t find it either.

[Steve Roberts]

Hmm … try making one skewed rectangle that flies around and into position. Precomp, then use echo to echo it. Or dupe it and slide each duped layer a bit in time to get a trail. The rest can be done with brute force: make some thin rectangles, move them out from center of frame, add directional blur to them, add a lens flare, animating its brightness, then take the text and scale it out from center as you animate its opacity.

Any questions? 😉

[Steve Roberts]

It depends on Vegas. You might need two output modules: one for RGB, one for alpha. Then you might matte them together in Vegas.

(I don’t use Vegas)

[Steve Roberts]

You can also switch off “Modify Alpha” in the Colorama controls, no?

[Steve Roberts]

Well done, Michael!