Forum: Carrara


Subject: Animation to full motion NTSC Video

AzChip opened this issue on Jul 06, 2001 ยท 14 posts


brenthomer posted Fri, 06 July 2001 at 5:30 PM

Are you sure this is not a field/frame issue? If you go look at AE forums they are just filled with people asking how to get that part correct. The first thing you need to do is figure out how to import into priemere. Does your version of premiere take odd first or even? Go look in your premiere manual. Find out the exact screen size/dpi/field order that your codex uses. This part has to be correct. Ideally with carrara (and raydream I assume) you then just render the animation with that info and you use the premiere editing codex. I am assuming that the animation is rendered tho and you dont want to do that. What I would do is import the animation into aftereffects and open a new comp. Make the comp the exact screen size that premiere wants, drag in your animation, scale it to fit the screen. Then make the movie in AE but where it says use best settings, click on that. Turn on the field render and set the render to whatever you need (odd/even) Then click on the output module and select .avi or .qt but make sure you go into options and select the primere codec. Render out the animation..this should go quick..its not doing anything but resizing and re encoding. you may also want to apply a small fast blur effect here just to soften it up..but first try it regular..a lot of time just putting your animation into the correct format fixes everything. But buy blurring things you make it take more than one pixel so it covers up the shimming. Lastly after the comp is rendered go into preiemere...import the animation...I dont know aobut priemere but in avid you can tell it to select odd/even/none field order and have it resize etc..make sure these settings are correct in your editor import option. Hopefully that will help? What I have been doing is rendering in Carrara w/o field support and rending to a photoshop sequence with no compression. then I import that sequence into after effects, resize and render into the Avid Codex that I need. The nice thing about having AE and the animation in a format that isnt compressed is that when you move onto a new editor you can have your source archived digitally w/o having to pull it from a tape. So is this to much info? NOt enough info? Wrong info? Id spell check it but Im off to help my buddy out this weekend so I have to scatt...let me know if you need anything clarified tho.