[Toby Heslop]

yes, I think this is what was causing the problem, I use release to layers.

so i created my own layers andmoved them in and now it seems to work!

Thanks to all you dairy farmers that replyed,

big ups!

[Toby Heslop]

hi Guys,

Thanks for your posts,

If you didn’t know, you can output WMV files from After effects 7, it’s just that when you see the icon for the file on a mac it still looks like a quicktime file but if you move that to a PC then it looks like a WMV file.

I also have sorenson squeeze and will give that a go and compare the quaility between to 2,

thanks

T

[Toby Heslop]

ok, i think i understand what you are saying there,

will give it a go

thank you

[Toby Heslop]

try importing it as footage or as a composition without cropped layers

[Toby Heslop]

thanks for your wisedom mate,

peace

[Toby Heslop]

how do i deinterlace dvcam footage in afx?

also i have created a horizontal blue bar in AFX and put a piece of footage over the to of it with a sihlouette luma blend mode so there is white movements of footage within the blue bar. it looks right but when i render out as 10bit + alpha back in fcp on a dvpal timeline it seems as though the blended footage has an edge feather on it cause it does not frame all the way to the edge of the bar?

my friends told me to use this work flow:
edit DVcam footage in FCP, create GFX in AFX and render as 10bit, compile in FCP on a DVPAL timeline and then nest into a 10bit FCP timeline, that way the footage is still dv compression but the GFX would be uncompressed and the best they could be. is that how you would do it?

thanks

[Toby Heslop]

Ok i finally found the tutorial on the cow. i knew i had seen it before!

is there an easier way to do it though if i have a vector file

thanks

[Toby Heslop]

What is an OEM?

thanks for your help everyone

[Toby Heslop]

ok, i added the comp to the render queue,

changed the log pull down to ‘Plus per frame info’

hit render,

i have the ‘current render detail showing and it says

comporsition:comp 1
layer:1
stage:paint

[Toby Heslop]

i’m rendering a Lower third, super bar in animation, with alpha but it is not that as i can’t RAM preview it on the timeline either, it just gets stuck on the third last frame.

I’m using a photo from photoshop and a clip from artbeats stock footage and thats it, simple stuff

my drives aren’t full and i can’t get render logs as i can’t get a finished render to get a log in the first place