Animation temporal compression?

Don't do 3D graphics. But I received an animation file that is in 23.98 from either Maya or 3D max (i'm in PAL, so that means Cinema Tools). Conformed it to 25 fps, brought it into FCP to insert over footage.

Needed more shot duration, so the graphics guy slowed it down in AE, and brought it back to me, and it was in the same frame rate, but this time, when i throw it into Cinema Tools it doesn't conform. Checked movie properties and it mentioned "Temporal Compression". Tried changing the frame rate in QT Pro to PAL under export options, and it gave me an NTSC clip!

Anyone seen this before?



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Open the file in QT Player.
Export to Animation codec with the Keyframes set to All and Quality to Best.
Then try opening the new file in Cinema Tools.

Martin Baker
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>Open the file in QT Player.
>Export to Animation codec with the Keyframes set to All and Quality to Best.

Ahh... I missed that out! Thanks. That should work. I'll check that out when i get back to office. How does this keyframe thing work with Animation anyway? I didn't know it allowed temporal compression?



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If the keyframes isn't set to "All" then that's temporal compression.

Martin Baker
[www.digital-heaven.co.uk]
Unique plug-ins and tools for Apple Pro Apps

Thanks for the clarification. I never really got much information on the keyframe setting in Animation- i usually set it to "ALL" just in case. And Google isn't a good place to type "animation + Keyframe".

Finally found out here:
[www.kenstone.net]

and there were other pretty good college publications on the subject too. Turns out that Frame differencing is a method of temporal compression, like motion compensation...

It lags and renders darn long though...



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