[Tim Kolb]

How is After Effects set to show the comp in preview?

Is the motion blur in there if you render it?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I’d try to reset the workspace…it looks like the UI is confused to me.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Hmmm… I guess I’ve found a QuickTime file with PNG compression to reasonably easy to handle myself. I wouldn’t use it for a feature film., but it seems to work well for L3rds, etc…

I completely understand the desire to stay away from multiple dynamic linked AE comps…

Even though Animation is “deprecated”…would it work for your project? (I realize the files are large)

Unfortunately, QuickTime is really not all that much more neglected than AVI…both wrappers are antiques.

I checked here on all the AJA codecs…they all seem to lack the ability to render an alpha channel.

I wonder if Lagarith would work? i think it supports alpha channels in RGB…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

It depends on the project… I’ve occasionally used PNG compression for simple graphics…or TIFF sequences…

I don’t personally use DNxHD in RGB, so I don’t know if the MXF wrapped variety will do this? I don’t know anyone who is using DNxHD QT codecs now that the MXF wrapper runs beautifully inside Adobe.

I stay away from QT as fast as possible (it isn’t a second-class citizen because of Adobe…you need to talk to Apple about why it isn’t 64 bit on the Windows side, Adobe just tried to adapt to it with their own server application).

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

OK…You may want to update the application as I think 7.2.1 is current.

On the issue at hand, I might suggest taking the carefully structured video clips and place each on a timeline, sync the appropriate external audio, mute (or delete) the tracks you don’t want…then lock the racks and use each sequence like a source clip…a -nested sequence- in Adobe terminology.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Yes, previews and master are independent unless you choose to “use previews” during export.

One bonus of using ProRes as your preview is that you could use the previews on export to ProRes and in CC, it will skip re-encoding.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

It’s not CC?

Where are you seeing the version?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

What version are you using?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I was guessing that the frame dimensions may not come out at an even multiple for MPEG…I seem to recall the magic number being a multiple of 16…?

Anyway, when I saw the issue, that was the first thing to jump to mind…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

What you could do is to slip the clip, then take the effects control panel and in the panel menu deselect “pin to clip”.

Then, if you zoom out, you can see where the key frames moved to (outside of the new trim points) and drag-marquee select them all and drag them back to the new trims.

The transitions would stay in place.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor