Clip Notes not ready for primetime?
by Ken Latman
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May 28, 2008 at 4:53:38 pm
I searched the forum here and on Adobe's site but not quite getting any good answers so I bring the topic up again.
I have a 9min movie that I would like feed back on from my group but there are a number of technical and general output problems I am experiencing trying to get clip notes to work.
First is the fact that the file generated winds up being 50MB or greater (I'm not streaming it from a server, but it will be on a shared directory.) This is just too much. Are there other settings I can try? Instead of a Quicktime movie can it somehow be an embedded Flash based quicktime movie and stream?
Being that it is quicktime (I'm on a mac BTW) my end users are all PC. Quicktime is not installed on hardly any of these PC and would be a request from our network guys to go around and install. Again is there some other format I can safely export to in the process that will work?
Now the general problems I have already found. First, the audio sound as if underwater or dubbled. Has there been a fix for that issue? I'm running Quicktime 7.4.5.
Finally there is the aspect ratio. My video is 720 x 540 and the Clip Notes pdf comes out stretched to the 16:9 ratio no mater what I do.
This may have no effect on the problems stated, but does it make a difference if I'm rendering out clip notes file with Adobe Render Que or Nucleo Pro 2?
It seems as of today, the clip notes is a great idea, but with so many different types of video projects for various output paths, it might not be at the top of its game yet to handle the diversity of the typical AE workflow.
Re: Clip Notes not ready for primetime? by Steve Roberts on May 28, 2008 at 5:49:23 pm
I'm not aware of any fixes to file size or audio (yecch), but to work around the aspect ratio, you need to drag your comp into another one (4x3) and squeeze its width to 75%. It should look too narrow, but it will look fine (though pillarboxed) in Clip Notes. Try it.
