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| | | | |  | Strobing on slow pans 7Dby Adam Beasley 2 years agoHi All, Been shooting with my 7d for a month now, really like it, have come from Digi so there is a fair bit to get used to! My only real issue thus far is that I am getting awful strobing when pannin | Re: Strobing on slow pans 7D
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
If I saw those clips without reading this thread, I would probably assume it was just a jittery playback. It sounds like your work flow is pretty solid, so there's no reason to assume any problems wer
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| | | |  | Jagged edges on export..by Brad Ballew 2 years agoSo I shot some footage with my 7D, converted it to Pro Res HQ 422 through compressor.. edited it in FCP7 sent it to color, sent it back to FCP and although it looks great in FCP, I get jagged edges wh | | | | |
| | | |  | 5D chroma samplingby Steve Renard 2 years agoDoes anyone have information on how to get 4:2:2 footage out of a 5D MkII I have seen some serious moire issues that I suspect have to do with the chroma sampling on board (4:2:0 if I understand corre | Re: 5D chroma sampling
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
For what it's worth, the reason that the 5d has so much trouble with moire patterns is because of the recording pattern the sensor uses in video mode. There is no workaround. Google "line skipping" if
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| | | |  | Smoke trailby Fabrice Ducouret 2 years agoI am trying to do a smoke train between a moving point A and a moving point B in a movie file. I have seen an interesting tutorial on videocopilot that i tried to reproduce, but it's hard for me to do | Re: Smoke trail
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
Simple is a relative term. I have gotten descent smoke effects using fractal noise, but usually only for a really subtle look. There is a smoke preset that can be tweaked to look almost OK. If you pla
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| | | |  | Exporting Tracking Data In Mochaby Ian Leo 2 years agoHi. I have a problem. When I try to export in Mocha for AE, a sign pops up: This feature is not included in your license. Export will be limited to 10 frames. Please contact sales@imagineersystems.com | Re: Exporting Tracking Data In Mocha
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
I have Mocha for AE, which was free with AE CS4. It is limited in that it can't export video, but doesn't limit the exporting of tracking and corner pin data. Are you using CS4+ If so, your licenses m
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| | | | | Rotoscoping - no clear colour contrastby Alex Townley 2 years agoHey guys, I am working on a shot which shows a man overlooking a balcony at night (medium shot from directly behind him). I want to composite a firework display directly in front of him, therefore I h | | | | |
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| | | | | HD animation compression for webby Ben Popp 2 years agoOkay.... So I shot my original footage on 16mm and had it transferred to HD. This came back to me as a PRO RES HQ file. I changed sequence settings to match the footage and went on my way editing. I s | Re: HD animation compression for web
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
H.264 is pretty much the only web HD format. The quality is going to be affected mostly by your bitrate settings. Also, it's difficult to know what you mean by "trails." If they are in fact compressio
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| | | |  | roto scoping/ roto brushby Dawud Ali 2 years agohi guys thanks for your time, this may be a simple question but can the new roto brush CS5 be used to created a mask so the effect can be copied and pasted over solid layer to i.e see a figure dancing | | | | |
| | | |  | Free Form Pro Test 02by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu 2 years agoHere's a new test done using Free Form Pro. I used Generator to create 100 instances of the feather. Also used: Particular, 4 Color Gradient, Glow and Light Sweep. http: www.youtube.com watch v=s-14fP+1 | | | | |
| | | | | FCP refuses to import .mov fileby Zack Delman 2 years agoi was given a bunch of .MOV files on a DVD for an interview i'm supposed to cut. They play fine in quicktime, but when i try to import them into final cut, i get the "File Error: Unknown file" message | Re: FCP refuses to import .mov file
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
Sorry to say it, but those videos are not in an editing codec and need to be transcoded. Even if you found some magic way to import them as is, it will cause problems all through your workflow. On top
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| | | |  | Video Cadence Problem - 4:1/3:2by Colin Hensworth 2 years agoHello, I'm having some serious issues with video cadence and it might be too late to fix. Wondering if anyone has any experience with this: I have a ProRes HQ 29.97 file that is DONE, it's been throug | Re: Video Cadence Problem - 4:1/3:2
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
There is a difference between cadence and pull down. The pull down (where you wrote 3:2) is the pattern that 4 progressive frames are split into 10 interlaced fields. The cadence refers to a reference
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| | | |  | Liquify with position expressionby Joey Foreman 2 years agoHello all. I have pickwhipped the position property of the Distortion Mesh Offset of the Liquify tool to the position property of another layer. I can see that the offset point is following the positi | Re: Liquify with position expression
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
I tried to re-create the effect, and it worked fine fore me. However, the offset was almost completely off screen, and I almost didn't notice the liquify effect. That might be what is happening to you
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| | | |  | Particles Don't Appear when Solid is 3dby David Bark 2 years agoFollowing along with the Particular documentation. Created a spot light called "Emitter" and a black solid. Light is red. when solid is 3d, I can see the particles only when light is oriented towards | | | | |
| | | | | From inal cut to Youtubeby Chidi Onyejuruwa 2 years agoI did a bit a searching and am still very confused when it comes to these formats. Footage was shot with a 1D and given to me. I uploaded it to FinalCutPro on a macbook(standard model is all I have av | Re: From Final cut to Youtube
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
Chidi Onyejurwa "Also, I've read that since the video will be converted to a flash video once on the site that converting it to flash myself would help keep some of the quality." This is arguable. As
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| | | |  | .mov for web, need small file sizeby sandy rangs 2 years agoI have an aefx project, approx. 25 minutes in length, that I need to post to the web. I am trying to get the smallest file size possible while rendering to .mov format. I am trying to stick around 480 | Re: .mov for web, need small file size
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
OK, a couple of things. First, don't assume that Sorenson is going to give you better results than any other compression software. Your codec and settings are what matters. Second, don't forget about
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| | | |  | I'm embarrassedby Mark Suszko 2 years agoI don't really think my brain-jar picon belongs up on the top there with the real pros in the "Broadcasting" forum. I'm honored, but I'm waaay under-qualified to be put on a banner with those guys. My | | | | |
| | | | | H264 MP4 won't show video, just audioby Anwar Hoogland 2 years agoI'm having a problem with H264 encoded MP4 files. Whenever I export them from After Efftect with a reasonable setting (2-3 Mbps) and watch them in Quicktime for instance everything seems fine. The pro | Re: H264 MP4 won't show video, just audio
by Olin Padilla 2 years ago
Honestly, I never go h.264 strait from AE. I recommend using an intermediate codec (I use prores), and then using MPEG Streamclip for the final h.264 compression. DVD Studio Pro generally doesn't like
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