AE to Avid madness (setting in)
by Craig Umanoff
on
May 2, 2008 at 5:29:21 pm
Well I thought I knew how to do this but I’m flailing around like an amateur.
I’m attempting an import of stills with camera moves from AE to Avid (Xpress DV). I'm getting more moving jaggies than I can shake a hundred sticks at. Wasn’t sure if it were bad anti-aliasing, bad field order or what, so I did a series of tests on a pattern of lines and circles that I drew up.
Best results (and not bad either) were:
in AE 720 x 405 comp; interpret footage as fields off - DV NTSC aspect ratio, rendered 720 x 405
Quicktime DV codec
in Avid 16:9 video, import set to non-interlaced
When I try the same settings with one of the images I want to import I get crap. Yet when I try using the Stagetools Moving Picture plugin it looks o.k. WhatamIdoinwrong with the AE – Avid ??
Re: AE to Avid madness (setting in) by Dave LaRonde on May 5, 2008 at 2:56:21 pm
[Craig Umanoff]"Well, its the 16:9 ratio. "
It doesn't matter -- DV Widescreen is STILL 720x480, the same as 4:3 DV video. How is that so? They make the pixels wider in the camera and on playback. The difference in pixel width is called Pixel Aspect Ratio.
When I have to work with DV widescreen, I use AE's DV widescreen comp preset for the footage, I frequently use the Pixel Aspect Ratio Compensation switch near the bottom of the comp window, I render 720x480, and life is good.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
