Steve Roberts
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I’ve heard quite a few complaints with QT 7. Have you tried downgrading back to 6.whatever? I believe there’s a downgrader on the Apple site.
Steve
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Rendering to Animation doesn’t increase your AE render time, since compression occurs after rendering in AE. Any codec choice has only a marginal effect on render time, if any.
However, your render times in FCP will be affected by any compositing, regardless of the codec. Unless you have special hardware that allows real-time compositing, that is. (expensive, if it exists for FCP)
Sure, if your timeline is DV, bringing in a DV-compressed title clip won’t require rendering in FCP, but the DV codec doesn’t support transparency (alpha). So you could try rendering a DV clip in AE with a green background and keying in FCP, but you might still have longer render times and possibly a yucky key. 🙂
You see?
DV codec = no transparency, but quick import in FCP.
Animation codec = transparency, but longer render times in FCP.For simple stuff, LiveType may be the best option.
Steve
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Yes, that would be nice …
The only way I’ve been able to “pin” the processors is to render a still sequence using the multi-machine render preset, but using two instances of AE both rendering the same project. When the Render button is hit for each project, frame 1 is rendered by one instance, and frame 2 by the other instance, happily leapfrogging the rendering until done.
To recap, on OSX:
1. Set up the render, making sure that “skip existing files” is checked. Close all windows except the Queue to avoid confusion.
2. To activate the second instance, duplicate the AE app in the applications folder, then double-click on the duped icon.
3. Open the project that you just set up. It should be ready to render.
4. Click “render” for each Queue.You want processor activity? This’ll give it to you. 🙂
Hope that helps,
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It sounds as if you need use AE to render a movie with an alpha channel.
Most videos have three channels: RGB, or red/blue/green.
Videos with an alpha channel have an extra channel: RGBA. The alpha channel within each pixel tells a compatible app whther that pixel is opaque, trnasparent, or somewhere in between.So, you need to render through the render queue (composition>make movie) with an Output Module with these settings:
– quicktime Animation codec
– millions+ colours
– RGB + alpha
Then you just import that movie into FCP. It will have to render wihtin FCP, but that’s the way it goes.Does that help?
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You might want to check out B&H Photo/video and search Professional Video for Color Monitors.
This Sony PVM-14L2 seems to be the newer version of my good old workhorse. Underscan, blue gun and switchable aspect are good features.
I think you’ll need a separate Firewire-to-analog converter, possibly from Canopus, to connect FW to your monitor of choice. I haven’t seen an NTSC production monitor with FW in.
Hope that helps,
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… and shoot with the film camera running at a high rate of speed, so you have more frames to work with. Essentially you shoot for slo-mo, then speed it up (in post) to look normal.
Steve
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Check the AE help under “time remapping”.
If you want a smoother slowdown, you might need the Twixtor plugin.
Steve
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Please describe your process in detail, step by step. Describe what you are selecting and copying, and what is selected in AE before pasting.
Steve
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You don’t have to key out everything — just the areas close to your subject. Draw a rough mask around the subject to cut out the garbage around the edges, and see if that makes it easier to key. The mask is called a garbage matte. Animate its shape if necessary.
Alternately, try applying the keying effect multiple times with slightly different settings.
That said, some shots cannot be keyed without rotoscoping. (masking by hand)
Steve
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Preferences>general>show tool tips.
Steve