Animating Output from CAD Program?
pcford Nov 3, 2011 10:27 PMOk, bear with me I have been working on this since late morning today...my mind is mush. Unfortunately I could not get a an good representative example up to share.
1. I am doing an animation video which is derived from a CAD program. The designer spit out anywhere from 75 to 250 stills from the cad program for the various sections of the video.
2. I asked him to do his output in 1920 x 1080. When I got the stills the first section was 1080 x 720...not any standard resolution...we decided to set these in a XGA frame size: 1024x768. He has done the rest in 1024 x 768 resolution. The video will be shown on a computer/lcd projector.
3. I put the stills in AE CS3 with each still occupying one frame on a separate layer. Put a motion blur on. I am now at the 8th section...I have output them from AE and imported to Premiere Pro CS3. I did very little speed change in Premiere. All of them look terrific...the best animation I have ever done...absolutely top flight.
4. EXCEPT section 7. That section has a piece of plywood. In that section this piece of plywood looks "buzzy" when exported...not when rendered on the timeline...but when exported it looks like something like banding in a gif in the old days. Except the "banding" is not steady...it produces this movement that sucks your eye.
5. I have tried every combination of codec and export format with little effect....I usually use Cinepak...but I have tried most all codecs I have on my machine here and at work. Another strange thing...the rendered clip looks fine on the timeline...UNTIL the whole timeline is exported then it looks crappy like the file exported from Premiere.
6. My boss and collegues say to slide on it...but the rest looks so good this part really sticks out...like we used to say in eastern Washington...like a diamond in a goat's a$$.
7. The AVIs from AE look great...the problem comes in exporting from Premiere. I suppose one way of solving the problem would be to put sections 1 to 6 in Premiere, the troublsome section 7 AVI output from AE, and the remaining sections' output from Premiere...put all three items on a WMV playlist and play it out.
Again I am sorry I can't get an example up to share...though I suppose I could put something on box.net if necessary. I would guess this is a basic, basic problem that I am overlooking.
Can you help make the pain go away? Thanks in advance.
pcf
