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Grazie wrote on 6/12/2006, 9:27 PM
Nice Work!

OK, I may be very very wrong here, but looking very very closely at the TM Diamond on T3, there "appears" to be a wee bit of a shadow. This always indicates to me that there is a pesky, lurking K/F creating mischief . .can you see it? It maybe nothing .. but then again it may be setting the whole "off-alignment" you speak of? Yes?

Zero setting has been covered recently. JM - may not be him . . . -produced a neat script for smashing this! ! ! Does it work at TRACK level? Discuss?

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 6/12/2006, 11:49 PM
Ah! - I see that the AVI is smaller than that which you are seeing within Preview.

What were your render and project settings here? I'm just wandering if your render settings are something less?

Grazie


jrazz wrote on 6/13/2006, 6:56 AM
Grazie,
I see what you are saying about the render being smaller than the project settings. I am not in front of my editor and won't be until tonight to check. But I would bet that is right. I am pretty sure that I rendered out to avi dv 720x480 or something similar. Again, I am not in front of my editor. I will render out some 5 second tests tonight and see what I get.

j razz
Orcatek wrote on 6/13/2006, 7:23 AM
I have had documented problems where things would move, no keyframes involved.

What happens was the rendered output was to a different ratio than standard, and the scaling on graphics caused them to move somehow. I was using one of the default WMV formats. It was very annoying.

My work around was to render out the "layers of video" to a new track first. Then render to WMV so the rescaling would not take place.

jrazz wrote on 6/13/2006, 5:53 PM
Grazie, you were right. It was dealing with the aspect ratio... I think. The project is set to widescreen DV NTSC. I changed the aspect ratio of the event to widescreen dv NTSC at 29.97, but it distorts the event in the preview window. When i do a prerender it distorts it and makes it shorter but taller- exactly the opposite of the way it looks on the timeline/ preview window when it is not prerendered. I am prerendering to widescreen DV NTSC. I also tried other settings, but they do not give me the widescreen look I am after.
I am sure I have done something dumb such as render something to the wrong format or changed a setting that I shouldn't have. Any Ideas?

But, if I change the project to DV NTSC (not widescreen) and the event to the same, it looks how I want it on the timeline and the preview window and prerenders correctly... although, the footage is/was widescreen (unless I did something wrong). I am trying to expand my knowledge past my normal workflow and this seems so basic but I keep messing it up.

j razz
Grazie wrote on 6/13/2006, 10:38 PM
Hmmm .. . So the question we need to ask is, just what IS the difference between 16:9 and 16:9 Widesctreen? AND, more specifically, the very importance of it when it comes to Rendering?

My thoughts are that 16:9 [WIDESCREEN] is for widescreen LCDs . . but I must be completely wrong!!

Grazie