Steve Roberts
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Generally, you only need to limit the whites to 235 … and bring the blacks up to 16 if you’re going to broadcast.
It depends on the kind of flicker you’re talking about. Try searching the COW posts on “flicker” to see other solutions.
Steve
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I’m just picturing “Goober and Gomer” watching TV together .. 🙂
Oh wait … it’s the same guy ….
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The big unknown in your question is “put it on a DVD”.
You need to compress your 640×480 movie to MPEG-2 before you author (and burn) the DVD, and MPEG-2 only works in 720×480 non-square. So you can make a 720×480 movie in AE, then use Compressor (or whatever) to make the MPEG-2, or use Compressor (or whatever) to scale the 640×480 movie to 720×480 when you compress to MPEG-2.
Either way, the DVD Authoring app needs to be given a 720×480 (non-square pix) movie, compressed to MPEG-2.
Hope that helps,
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Old Media 100s use 640×480.
New ones use 720×486.
Avid Meridian uses 720×486.
Decklink uses 720×486.The practical answer is: you use whatever your hardware dictates, or whatever your editor’s hardware dictates.
… unless you want to go shopping around for an editor who uses 640×480, you really have no choice. Look to the end of the graphic-to-editor workflow: that’s the format you use.
For editors, the non-square thing isn’t an issue, since their gear compensates. It’s only an issue with motion graphics, really, and an issue easily accommodated in AE by working in 720×540, 648×486, 720×534 or … 720×486 (or 480) with Pixel Aspect Ratio compensation on. That’s what I do.
Why did those vendors choose that 720×486 resolution? Because it’s the SMPTE standard, I suppose. Why did they pick those numbers? I read the answer to that once, but forgot it, of course. Pretty technical stuff.
Steve
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[Yussef] “If it’s something you’er animating in After Effects just set two identical keyframes for whatever value you’re animating 5 seconds apart from eachother.”
… remembering to set the first keyframe as a “hold” keyframe.
Steve
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Hmm … wouldn’t moving the layer’s position up 5 pixels do the same thing as moving all masks up 5 pixels?
If you just wanted to move the masks (not the layer), maybe you could move the layer up, then use the pan behind tool to move it back down? Or precompose?
Steve
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Bright, saturated colors bleed on TV, so you need to desaturate them. Create an adjustment layer over the whole comp, then apply the broadcast colors effect to that layer, set to “key out unsafe”. Make sure your comp’s background color is something like bright green. Now all “unsafe” colors will be keyed out and appear bright green. To make them safe, either choose a different, less saturated color (if you can, say, to text) or apply the hue/sat effect to the adjustment layer, making sure it’s above the broadcast colors effect in the effect stack. This will desaturate everything — as you desaturate, watch the green go away. By the way, for yellow, try changing it to a slightly more orange color if you can.
As for the flicker, if you have video with thin lines in it, try applying a .5 to 1-pixel vertical blur (fast, gaussian or directional blur) to the video. If the fine lines are graphics scaling up or down, it might be best to apply the blur to an adjustment layer over the fine-line graphics.
Hope that helps,
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Is there an MP3 in the comp? If so, you need to use QT Pro (or similar) to convert the MP3 to WAV or AIFF.
Steve
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No, that would be two masks.
What kind of result are you looking for? Do you want to create a mask using the render>stroke effect? If so, you can apply the same stroke to all (both, in this case) masks on a layer.
Steve
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I’d add a layer with the ramp effect applied, tinted in some fashion with a funky transfer mode over the hue/sat effected footage. If you need the same thing randomly applied across the frame, try a fractal noise layer applied the same way.
You might need to change those layers on every cut, to make the effect less noticeable.
Steve