Adobe After Effects - Problem rendering an imported bitmap

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Problem rendering an imported bitmap

Edwin

2005-07-19, 4:46 am

Hi, can someone tell me where I'm going wrong? I'm new to video editing
and have been working on a project for a job interview collating video
footage which I have been editing in After Effects to make a sample
movie.

My workflow (just for background info) has been to record video games
footage via my standalone DVD Recorder, convert it to Quicktime footage
using Cinematize (Mac), import it into After Effects, edit it and
render the movie to a 640 x 480 NTSC mov file.

Generally I've been able to get things working fine. I convert the
source M2v material using the DVCPRO codec and everything looks OK
until I come to use the imported bitmap. It was created in Illustrator
and is a centred white logo on a flat black background, exported as a
tif and imported into After Effects where it looks great. When I render
my movie using the DVCPRO codec the imported video renders fine but the
imported bitmap degrades horribly. Alternatively, if I render the movie
using the Animaion codec the bitmap is fine but the general
quality/compression ratio is poor.

Can someone advise me? Many thanks.

chadedge

2005-07-27, 11:21 pm

Probably a long-shot, but check your color depth, resolution, etc
(export settings) in Illustrator. Perhaps your file is displaying fine
in AE, but the render is getting botched because of the bit-depth(?) of
the .tif.