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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

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Make sure you set your Prefs/Import settings to 23.976 before you import footage in AE.

If you forget to do that... go to Interpret Footage and Composition Settings and change the default 30fps to 23.976.

Jim

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Just like with the cameras, an improperly fitted post gets fixed.
 
number6 said:
Just like with the cameras, an improperly fitted post gets fixed.
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I don't ever mind being dumb if we can fix it...

Jim
 
It takes a big man to admit a mistake. LOSE SOME... oh, never mind.
 
Jannard said:
Are you speaking of my waistline?

Jim
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HEAVENS NO!!! I am speaking of your statu e as ****** of the RED army of the Battered Bastards of Barstow... oh wait, you guy are in LA...
 
Good note. That 30fps default (and the way the import settings are buried in the prefs) is a bad design decision.

I can't count how many times I've been switching between broadcast and film projects (or between one machine and another with different prefs) and ended up importing things at the wrong frame rate as a result, then getting horribly confused for 10 minutes.

Note that if you've imported 50 clips at the wrong settings, you can fix them all at once:
1. fix the Interpret Footage settings for one clip
2. control-click on the fixed clip and choose Interpret Footage -> Remember Interpretation
3. select all other clips
4. control-click and choose Interpret Footage -> Apply Interpretation

The fact that Adobe has in fact come up with keyboard shortcuts for this makes one think AE users have to do this a little more than they should ;)

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
The reason I brought this up is because I made the mistake... output footage and it looked "stuttery". It is easy to do. I have to wonder how many complaints of "stuttery" (is that really a word?) footage are caused by this.

Jim
 
Jannard said:
The reason I brought this up is because I made the mistake... output footage and it looked "stuttery". It is easy to do. I have to wonder how many complaints of "stuttery" (is that really a word?) footage are caused by this.

Jim
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Which footage might that be? I think it might be helpful if you showed the footage in question
:shifty: :)
 
The 1st eagle footage I posted had this problem...

Jim
 
I worked on a project with approx. 200 layers in AFX where one (one!) element had a wrong fps-interpretation. You can imagine how long it took to find the problem...
 
You could also go into the interpretation rules.txt file that AE uses to understand each input and tweak a line here and there. Then it'll do the import as you want each time. It's pretty easy and has instructions within the .txt file
 
Maybe I've missed something, but you're working with a cr2 file, which is a raw canon data file (or sequence). Was there an announcement that After Effects can work with red footage natively? or are you just using a raw sequence from your canon camera?

edit:to clarify, I'm wondering why it says cr2, is this red footage? How close to getting a pc codec are we?
 
kalone said:
I worked on a project with approx. 200 layers in AFX where one (one!) element had a wrong fps-interpretation. You can imagine how long it took to find the problem...
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Been there done that. 23.97 fps job. Had one frame-sequence set to 24. Everything goes to hell and it's a real bugger finding the offending footage.

Out of curiosity Jim... how was this a problem? If you're working with DPXs it should be applying the same framerate to the file sequence by default. (30fps). So wouldn't it just play back faster than real-time?

Or were you exporting uncompressed quicktimes from REDCine?
 
Here is the rub... if you have imported the footage with the default preference of 30fps... then change to 23.976 in the Composition Settings, it DOES NOT automatically set the Interpret Footage setting to 23.976. It stays at 30 fps.

It appears to me that the Interpret Footage setting influences the look on output.

This is where I got trapped. All of my imports have been 2K DPX files.

Jim
 
My favorite is when you import something at the wrong speed, render it out, the client approves it to be finished at film res... you tell them "no problem, we can send you renders really soon" and THEN you notice your mistake...

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
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