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Re: Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
I just did a build, and then took the TS files into toast to burn. The DVD plays smoothly, but the graphics look very blurry again! I noticed in the viewer/simulator menu the rectangular pixel was checked, didn't see any pixel related choices in the encoder settings... Should I have formatted inside DVDSP? Does that mean burning (I always burn in toast)? Thanks, Marla PS-I am wonderingby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
Oops-don't know if this has ANY bearing on ANYTHING, but both the m2V files open up fine in Quicktime and look good... MMby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
Understood - and thanks - but I need a little more guidance please: What settings should I use? Max bit rate? Should I change the pixels to square? Any other details appreciated as to the procedure, Do I treat the self-c as my asset to set up the DVD first, and then where do I tell it to encode? Do I just set my settings and then hit build/format and it will automatically encode and then buildby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
I just brought the self-c movie file into DVDSP OK. Not sure what to do next about "intelligent resizing," and any other encoding settings to be aware of...by Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
No I did not - do you mean just bring my self-contained movie into DVD SP, and let it compress it there? I have never compressed inside there, is there a way to control the re-sizing at all? Any settings you'd recommend? This job has some video, but it's very graphics heavy. Thanks for the quick reply, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all- Of course on a HUGE deadline... Compressed my final, exported, uncompressed self-contained movie file 3 ways so far: Originally my sequence was with the AJA Io codec, 8-bit uncompressed - 720X486. I exported a self contained uncompressed movie file and used this as the source file for compression. 1)re-imported the file into FCP and went thru compressor (2Pass encode, but usby Marla Mitchnick - DVD Studio Pro
Help! Compression Disaster! - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all- Compressed my final, exported, uncompressed self-contained movie file 3 ways so far: Originally my sequence was with the AJA Io codec, 8-bit uncompressed - 720X486. I exported a self contained uncompressed movie file and used this as the source file for compression. 1)re-imported the file into FCP and went thru compressor (2Pass encode, but using the default settings, no customby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Oh dear - Specific "Titles How-To's" needed ASAP- just read P. Hodgett's article... - 16 years ago
Thanks again, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Oh dear - Specific "Titles How-To's" needed ASAP- just read P. Hodgett's article... - 16 years ago
Well, I just messed around in Boris Title 3D, and I see the error of my ways. Except I can't seem to find the control to make the text a color... But it is definitely too late for a total re-do tonight, not certain how I can get an edge outline on my titles as they are, at the moment the drop shadow and some RGB color fixes (for Broadcast safety) will have to do... Oh well! next time I willby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Oh dear - Specific "Titles How-To's" needed ASAP- just read P. Hodgett's article... - 16 years ago
1) Thanks 2) Oh, OK. But how do you know that the horizontal line is 2 pixels? In the Motion tab, under controls, is the font size measured in pixels? I just am missing some basic factoid here. 3)Will do, both. 4)Sadly I have done all my titles as text from the Canvas pull-down button, "Text," then made my choices all in Motion, (ie Lucida Grande Bold, with soft drop shadows, tby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Oh dear - Specific "Titles How-To's" needed ASAP- just read P. Hodgett's article... - 16 years ago
OK, if anyone's out there, I sure wish I had read this days ago. Of course I have to output tonight and don't have time to totally redo all my titles. Still, I'd like to improve them as much as is possible, so here are some questions: 1)My sequence is set to "uncompressed 8-bit NTSC:" do the DV Codec titles suggestions still apply? If so: 2) "Horizontal lines at least 2 pixeby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: STILL NEED compression advice for a stills/text/fx-heavy video??? - 16 years ago
That's OK Deb, I really appreciate your good idea. I am going to do a BetaSP tape output, I just gor through to the AV dude in Vegas, and they can handle BetaSP. When you say "8-bit QT" do you mean just uncompressed, as in self-contained? My timeline is set to AJA 8-bit uncomporessed settings, so I am guessing the answer to that is yes... They are going to find out if they can hanby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: compression advice for a stills/text/fx-heavy video? - 16 years ago
Good suggestion! I will do my best to negotiate a tape source projection. I can do an output to just about any format where I am today. My source elements were mostly VHS (VMS video service taped stuff that aired off of TV: Blech!), but everything went in uncompressed 8-bit through an AJA. Can you please decode "DDR?" Direct Digital something? Do you mean if I export an uncompressby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Compression for a stills/text/fx-heavy piece? - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all-I also posted this on Cafe LA- I'll be wrapping up that job, after a brief hiatus, Wednesday (today). The content is a little bit of video (first section and then peppered throughout), but mostly stills (about half snapshots with moves on 'em, and half scanned pages from magazines), lots of text and multiple layers of both text and images. I did a down n' dirty, fast, one-pass compresby Marla Mitchnick - DVD Studio Pro
compression advice for a stills/text/fx-heavy video? - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all- I'll be wrapping up that job, after a brief hiatus, Wednesday (today). The content is a little bit of video (first section and then peppered throughout), but mostly stills (about half snapshots with moves on 'em, and half scanned pages from magazines), lots of text and multiple layers of both text and images. I did a down n' dirty, fast, one-pass compression last week - just so we'dby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: Does a "Visible Counting Down in Millions" Plug In/Effect exist??? - 16 years ago
I hope I find some time and the opportunity to learn AE sometime SOON! It is definitely one of my next logical steps. I used to do loads of animation/stop motion and I keep running into the need for it... Thanks, Marlby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Does a "Visible Counting Down in Millions" Plug In/Effect exist??? - 16 years ago
Hi again Y'all- My client would like to see a moving numeral, in the millions, counting up to a grand total. Just the last 4 digits would need to move, though more would be cool too... We are wrapping tonight and I do not have time to create one (a digit per layer) - Anyone know of a pre-fab version? Thanks, Marla-in-New Yorkby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: quickest way to make a colored BG layer? - 16 years ago
Thanks a bunch Joey! Marla, getting pretty wacky in the head from too much cuttin, and too little sleep... Are any editors NOT workaholics???by Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
quickest way to make a colored BG layer? - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all. Still slogging through. How do I change the color of a slug?? Or do I need to do a matte? I need a pink BG layer. Sorry for the dumb question, I think I have forgotten and I am in a tiz of a deadline, Thanks, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
...Now that I have been playing multiple shots w/ it, I can see the difference. it is an improvement, for sure, best, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Hi Scott- Thank you so much for getting back on this. Just got some help from a more knowledgable PS person, about the basics of the action function. Apparently that second row gives you dialog boxes as it's applying, to make choices from (if you so desire). Sadly, the deflickerator did not appear to change my image at all. Perhaps subtle is truly the operative word! I probably need to cby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Yes, smiley thingy was duly noted, it's sort of a lightness button. I'm just going to reduce them all to 1440, put a small Gaussian blur on them, and deal with the Deflickerator later if I can figure out how to work it... Thanks again, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Andrew- those links are torturous! Mby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Oops, Doh, Doy-eee-oh, etc. I clicked not, but foolishly pasted into a new window... Hmm. Drugs... Sorry Loren (about my gender assumption)... Just read the article, GREAT STUFF!!! Too bad I didn't read it before though - on this project the scans were all done by an office person, and I had to give them a basic overall setting... foolish. Clearly, doing them myself and dealing with each tby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Maybe that's my problem! I don't drink the stuff. Actually I went to the home page, looked in features, tutorials, and training, and even did a search under her name, but somehow it eluded me. Perhaps I was rushing... Seeing that I am caffeine-compromised, perhaps you could point me to the correct part of the site for Loren's article... On the other hand, if you need a break from this threaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: How do we collapse the threads now? Can't find the command... - 16 years ago
Thanks Mike, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Hi Mike- Thanks, I will read it pronto. Where is it? In tutorials? Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
How do we collapse the threads now? Can't find the command... - 16 years ago
Hi Y'all, Just want to see the list so that I don't have to scroll to find a thread from a couple of days ago, and I can't find the command... Thanks, Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: using the deflickerator ?? - 16 years ago
Hi again Scott- OK, I have loaded it into PS, but there are many possible things to check off beneath the Deflickerator_4 folder. They are all defaulted to the checked position, on the first row of boxes (toggle item on/off) but the second row (toggle dialog box on/off) is all un-checked. Also, the play selection, and the other buttons (stop play/recording, begin recording, etc) are all giby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 16 years ago
Jude- When you wrote "Up to two times the size of your FCP canvas," did you mean my pixel size (ie 720 X 486?" The video that I have in this piece is that size, 8-bit uncompressed, though there is not very much of it and it all came from icky sources (ie VHS and various types of MPG files on DVD)... Marlaby Marla Mitchnick - Café LA
