[Straight A]

Yep! happens to me too at least once or twice a day 🙁 I now just minimize AE instead of hiding as it you can get it back this way.

[Straight A]

For 3D tracking Pixel Farm’s ‘pfHoe’ works well and exports its tracking data to a lightwave scene file (LWS) and it is only

[Straight A]

Frame reordering is not the same as Key frames.

For key frames try some high values – even as high as 50-100 on a 2 minute piece. (experiment!)

The quality of the frames between the key frames is controlled by the same slider as the compresseor quality slider – simply hover your mouse above the slider and hold down option (on a Mac) and it will change to ‘Temporal’ – set this around Low to Medium.

I also usually use MPEG4 audio to get good sound quality with little bandwidth overhead.

All these setting depend on the nature on the content you are attempting to compress – I usually stick in some known values and experiment from there if I need efficiently compressed files.

[Straight A]

You need to find out the details from your client !!

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>> Name: mynameisinuse
>> Date: Oct 12, 2006 at 10:44:54 am
>> Subject: Re: NASA Wants A Higher Resolution Format. What do you recommend?

>> I agree about h264, but please note that you must do the multipass (frame reeordering method) to get ultimate quality for size
>> control And AE does NOT do this. QTPro does however. Render out AE uncompressed, then export from QTpro to h264.

After Effect does in fact do frame reordering when exporting H264, no need to spend extra cash on QTPro or involve an extra render/process – simply render your movie using FILE>EXPORT>QUICKTIME…. the frame reordering option is there.

[Straight A]

Sounds like horizontal pixilation try this…

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Select a piece of footage from FCP (I take it these will be 1080i50/60 Quicktimes).

Open it into Quicktime Pro (I hope you have this too !!?)

Open the properties for that movie.

Select ‘Video Track’

Click on the ‘Visual Settings’ tab.

Uncheck off ‘Preserve Aspect Ratio’

Change the ‘Scaled Size’ from 1920*1080 to 1440*1080.

Hit the save keyboard command (Command S for Apples)

All the above will do nothing to the file other than change the ‘header’ no data will be lost.

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Now bring this footage into AE and make a new 1920*1080 comp with square pixels.

Should solve your problem.