[Win Edson]

Thanks so much for this Dan. The expression works perfectly in After Effects. Unfortunately it doesn’t translate to the MOGRT in Premiere. But it turns out there’s a built in feature in AE I wasn’t aware of (it’s years old, so my fault!). It doesn’t even involve expressions, so I posted in the wrong forum (again my fault)

In case anyone reading this was trying to accomplish the same thing as myself, here’s what I did.

The feature I needed was the ‘Responsive Design Time’ (found under Composition) I quickly created an intro and outro, sized it to my animation and exported the MOGRT.

Now the end user can just resize the graphic in the timeline and the speed of the Animate Ins and Outs don’t change.

Thanks,

Win

[Win Edson]

Thanks for that Tom.

I believe I’ve found the problem. Not really to do with jpeg file format. We’ve discovered that certain jpegs we receive are saved with the Sharing & Permissions set to ‘No Access’ to everyone (except to our own computer) These jpegs do not import into fcp. Other jpegs we receive from other sources do not have this setting and can be imported to fcp.

So in the end, it looks like it’s a permissions issue, not a fcp or jpeg issue.

Thanks for your help!

Win

[Win Edson]

Thanks for the responses…

Is it on an accessible media drive? No, it’s on my computer desktop

Is it extremely large-check manual for max size limit? No, the jpeg is only 900k. I can resave it as a .psd file, making it 10mb, and that opens fine. (Again, this isn’t an option as we get hundreds of jpegs everyday so I’m trying to solve the problem outright)

Are you sure it’s not CMYK? positive!

Any other thoughts?

[Win Edson]

Thanks a million Michael that worked.

By exporting the raw HDV file from Quicktime Proto the Apple Intermediate Codec, then bringing that into After Effects, solved the artifacting problem. And the apple codec only doubled the file size, which isn’t bad really.

I did notice that the contrast had been reduced greatly, so I’m going with the uncompressed option, yeah, the file sizes are huge, but there’s no contrast/brightness shift.

Either way, my renders are super sharp.

Thanks again!

Win

[Win Edson]

Thanks Michael for your response and info.

My raw HDV footage is definitely 1440×1080 (Canon A1) that’s why it’s weird that After Effects 7 is interpreting it as 1920×1080, and probably the root of my problem. But I don’t know of a way of changing how my AE interprets/imports the footage. I’ve tried using ‘command F’ and looking at my options there, but there’s no way to change the frame size, only pixel ratio (and field dominance etc)

Unfortunately my renders exhibit the same diagonal artifacting as my previews in the Composition window.

My After Effects 8 interprets the footage as the proper 1440×1080. It just seems version 8 is smarter than 7, which makes sense, but I’m still hoping for a work around.

Thanks again.

Win