Steve Roberts
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You too, Jim!
Hope it works,
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BFX tells me it’s a Boris error. Try temporarily disabling the effect from the layer. If that fixes it, try adding it back in, but removing other effects.
I don’t know what else to do except write Boris tech support. Sorry.
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So if the Steadimove plug is within AE, then the interlaced (with fields) footage should have had its fields separated automatically when imported into AE. If not separated automatically, you should interpret the footage again, separating fields this time.
Then you steadymove, then render out of AE with fields if you want fields in your final output.
If, however, you export out of Premiere with no fields (as “progressive” footage or “frames”), then you import that progressive footage into AE, you’ve lost the field information. Gone. If you then SteadiMove and render with fields, the action in the footage will no longer be interlaced because it wasn’t there when you imported the footage. (I can’t say if there would be interlacing artifacts due to the steadymove or not.) It should look fine, just not as smooth (or video-like) as interlaced footage.
Remember: using fields or not is an aesthetic decision if you don’t need to match interlaced footage. However, if you choose to work with fields, you should know how to avoid messing them up. 🙂
Get Chris & Trish Meyer’s AE books. They’re a necessary part of every AE user’s library.
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I don’t know about FCP, but AE can’t recognize more than 2 GB of RAM, as long as it’s still written for 32-bit OSes.
Apple’s Motion uses as much RAM as you can throw at it (good), but it’s really picky about graphics cards. Check the Apple site.
Adding more RAM (up to 2 GB) will allow you to RAM preview longer segments of your AE timeline, and could make the difference between a successful render or a crash. (to get around that risk, search the COW for “secret prefs”) More RAM doesn’t speed up RAM previews. However, you can search the COW for Nucleo, something that does speed RAM previews, apparently.
And, technically, AE does not do realtime RAM previews — it will play back the comp at the correct frame rate and speed, but you have to wait for the frames to render. Only processor speed (and maybe Nucleo) can speed up that process.
Steve
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Here’s what I know. Or at least what I’ve found. I hope it’s relevant:
1. In AE, if you import an interlaced movie and plan on scaling it, moving it vertically, blurring it, rotating it, or otherwise distorting it, you should separate its fields on import. You will then be looking at only one field’s worth of info (basically) while working. If you then tell AE to render fields, the field info will be returned to the clip and rendered as scanlines relative to the resulting frame (not the old frame if you, say rotated the video), and the animated motion in AE will be field-rendered.
2. If you don’t want to do all that scaling, moving, distorting (etc.) stuff to the clip, and you just want to leave it in the center of the frame, don’t separate fields on import. Separating in that case will degrade the image.
3. If you render out of AE without fields, that field info is gone. Kaput. You have 25 (whatever) full frames per second. No field info.
4. If you scale a non-separated fielded clip in the Y (or X&Y) direction, you’ll get thick and thin field lines, kind of like a simple moire pattern. If somebody ever gives you footage that looks like that, you can’t fix it. You need the original.Steve
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AE’s Vector Paint should be able to do that. It comes with the Pro version.
AE does integrate nicely with a Wacom if I recall, but the Paint thing can also be done with a mouse. Mine’s been unhooked for a while.
Steve
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[Chris Smith] “To be the best mograph artist …”
… and not just “the After Effects guy”. 🙂
Steve
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[Y.D.] “your providing valuable information is always much appreciated”
Hey thanks. And you’ve earned my respect for actually using a possessive before a gerund. Nobody does that anymore.:)
Sorry, back to topic.
Steve
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[Y.D.] “I realize that mp3’s cannot go back to the wave quality much like jpg can’t go back to psd or targa. I just hope that my question did not convey lack of my knowledge in file formats.”
Sorry if I underestimated you, but you’ve seen the kind of questions we often get on the COW. 🙂
I guess my point in this case is this: it’s not good practice to import compressed media, particularly MP3s, MPEG-2s and Sorenson-compressed Quicktimes into After Effects. Sometimes you can get away with it in the case of JPEGs, but in the other cases, the result could be crashes, errors, or at best, recompression artifacts.
Steve
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effect>transition>block dissolve?
Steve