[Tony Rain]

not sure if this will help you but i believe if you render with fields you should interpret you footage with fields. you have to do this in the project window by right clicking on your movie file and selecting interpret fields/main/then in fields and pulldown/separate fields, select lower field/hit OK. then when you render, render with lower field first.

now when rendered out this way should look good on a NTSC monitor but not a computer monitor. hope this helps!

[Tony Rain]

hello,

have you tried selecting the ‘continuously rasterize’ button? its the second button on the layer level in the timeline. right next to the ‘shy layers’ button. it looks like an asterisk.

hope this helps!

[Tony Rain]

i thought premiere, in older versions, captured to quicktime?? i used to use premiere, i believe version 4?? and it captured QT’s.

anyways, thanks for the responses!

[Tony Rain]

I usually use quicktimes when working in after effects, thats why i wwould like to be able to capture quicktime. i guess i can give avi a try in after effects?

thanks for the insight!

[Tony Rain]

I actually found this solution in another forum and it works!

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NEW SOLLUTION:

What i did to solve probelm:

I belieave this problem is originated from clicking animate buttons and then later un-clicking animate buttons. This corupts the menus that used to have animated buttons. The sollution is as follows.

1) Save project as a new name.
2) Save all menus as templates using Menu/save as template.
3) Delete menus 1 at a time and replace with the templates you saved.
4) Re-link all buttons.

Adobe needs to address this issue as it seems to be happening to anyone who clicks animate buttons and then later un-clicks them.

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Thanks for your help!

[Tony Rain]

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[Tony Rain]

after a few more test I realize that the issue is when i make my movie a motion menu. when i put the same movie in a timeline it transcodes fine, no problems. but, i still would like to make this movie my motion menu. anyone have any suggestions?

thanks!

[Tony Rain]

thanks! i have already tried this. i think it has something to do with the actual sharing of the drives from my desktop and not the avid application itself. the reason i believe this is because, i make QT ref movies that live on drives on my desktop computer and when everything is working, networking, etc properly i can view the QT ref movie from my laptop by just clicking on it. when things are not working correctly when i click on the QT ref movie that lives on a drive in my desktop from my laptop i get an error message saying that it cannot find the media?? thanks for you advice! i really appreciate any and all advice or leads!

thanks!

[Tony Rain]

hey Kieran,

thanks for the quick response! i dont think, its a field issue because i maintain lower field throughout the workflow. but the way these apps work, it may be a feild issue?? but the resizing point that you brought up is a good point. i am able to do a comparison from the output from my editing app and the dvd player just by swithcing to different input channels on my tv. the dvd image does appear to be slightly scaled up. im not sure why because i try and maitain the same aspect ratio, non square, field dominance, frame rate, etc throughout.

what software are you using to author?

thanks!

[Tony Rain]

thanks for your feedback!!!! i really appreciate it! i do have another question. so, using procoder to encode and then adding the “601 correction-expand color space” seems to have fixed the “washed out color issue” it could be better but this is much better than before. but it appears that now the image has more artifacts than just transcoding in sonic dvdit. my question is, how do i assure that once i import my mpeg2 file from procoder into dvdit that dvdit is not re-encoding the files? am i just to assume that because i imported mpeg2 dvd compliant files dvdit is not going to re-encode. i guess this question arrises because when i burn to volume or dvd from dvdit it takes a long time like if i were transcoding the files and also because the final outcome has more artifacts.

thanks for your help!