Steve Roberts
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For 3D tracking (matchmoving) consider buying Syntheyes. In this situation, use it with a real 3D app, not AE.
I don’t think it’ll be a slam-dunk. You’ll probably have a fair bit of hand-matching to do, judging by the footage.
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Take a look at the value graph for the camera’s position and rotation, and look for the jump. Smooth it out using the graph as a guide.
You might want to separate the position into 3 axes to better root out the jerk in the motion. CS3 has a script for this and CS4 has a command for this, but if you’re using an older version, you might have to tie each axis of the camera to a separate null.
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Crucial, as a source of RAM, comes highly recommended.
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I hear ya, Dave! 🙂
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[Dave LaRonde] “Case in point: did you notice there’s no Firewire 400 port on this machine? Hope you don’t need to hook a DV or an HDV camera up to this thing. “
Sorry, Dave … there seems to be a cable for that. 🙂
… and I think this MacBook Pro ain’t the MacBook Air. Not so thin.
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Keep in mind that if you want to scale, rotate, blur, move vertically or otherwise distort the footage, you need AE to separate fields, otherwise you’ll get a jittery mess. Check the help for “interpret footage”.
When viewing at Best Quality (not draft), AE interpolates between the fields when you choose to separate fields, or when AE automatically separates fields, as it might have done in your case. When viewing at Draft, AE doubles every other field. That’s just the way it goes. The fieldskit pugin should do a smarter interpolation, but that depends on the motion in the footage.
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You should do a RAM preview, not hit the spacebar. How are you previewing?
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You’re asking for real-time rendering or better. The only way to get improve rendering speed would be to reduce the comp window resolution and quality, use low-res proxies, switch off effects and maybe use OpenGL, but that’s dodgy.
AE doesn’t respond like a video app — it has to render every frame. This depends mostly on the processor, not the hard drive. Even if you do nothing to a comp that contains one piece of footage, AE still needs to render every frame, not like a video editing app.
Of course, once you do a RAM preview and cache the frames, you can scrub in realtime, but once you change something, you have to do a RAM preview and cache those frames again.
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Did you select composition>make movie? It is the preferred way to render. You then choose something like Lossless for the Output Module, then under Format Options, choose the codec.
File>Export is generally for non-Quicktime rendering.
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Sounds like a Premiere question. Have you posted on the Premiere COW forum?