Steve Roberts
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Check the RGB/RGBA/RGBA straight/alpha buttons.
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You can’t hit “fn” and “Enter”?
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“Enter”, on the numeric keypad?
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I thought this was a Marathon Man thread …
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Try hitting the “collapse transformations” button for those sub-comps.
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Yes, rotoscoping is time-consuming. Check out the options ($) by Imagineer systems: Mocha etc.
Within AE, the idea is to study the motion, then create a key for the mask shape when the shape-changing changes direction, or is at a point of inflection. For example, if something gets bigger, then smaller, add a key when it stops growing and starts shrinking. Let AE do the interpolation between. Don’t set keys at a regular interval unless the motion specifically requires it.
Also, separate a complex shape into its non-changing elements, if you can. If the thing has five elements that change position, that’s easier: you just move the masks, rather than having to aniamte the shape of one.
Of course, if the shape is organic, like a flowing cape, you probably have to do that frame-by-frame. Try switching rotobezier on for that one.
Note that when rotating a mask, AE makes the mask vertices travel in a straight line between keys.
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Sounds like an error with a plugin. Did you try temporarily disabling effects, and rendering a few frames?
Is the error here?
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You can take the 16GB file, compress to the MPEG-2 codec using Compressor, Squeeze, or whatever you use to author the DVD. Then you burn that.
It will fit, as long as you do the necessary step of compressing to MPEG-2.
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Even a TGA sequence? Quicktime Animation?
I ask because red 255-0-0 doesn’t compress well in a lot of video formats because they’re designed to work well with real-life colours, which aren’t as pure.
Anybody else?
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Convert using “hdvxdv”? I’ve heard good things about it.
Try converting to Quicktime, Photo-JPEG, maybe.