Video Export Probs!!!

[John25S]

Ok guys when i export my animation i usually export with the animation studio designation of 16:9 widescreen ratio, but when it test it on my T.V. it is smaller that the rest of the screen (Square with in a square). Does any one know how to remedy this without messing up my camera shots or is there no other way than repostioning my characters in the camera with another ratio???

[John25S]

When i mean anime studio widescreen i mean 960 (i think) X 540

[mkelley]

When you test it on your TV...

See, there's all kinds of problems with that statement. There are soooo many different issues there, like what are you using to play on your TV (did you burn a DVD?), what program you used to create the video files and how did you set it up (in Premiere I have to create a widescreen project because otherwise any images loaded in will default to a 4:3 ratio), how your television and DVD player are setup (you must enable both to properly display things), etc., etc, etc.

All I can tell you is this -- I use the widescreen format from AS and render to BMPs which I bring into Premiere and create a video project which is widescreen. Then I export this to an AVI which I then use Adobe Encore to create a widescreen DVD and it plays fine on a widescreen TV set to properly display widescreen (and assuming the DVD player is also set correctly). So the bottom line is the problem is not with AS.

[John25S]

Ok you say you use BMP's thats cool in all but how do "Time" the sequence?

[mkelley]

I have no idea what you mean -- how do "Time" the sequence? Um, do you mean how do I see what the timing is on the animation? By playing it in AS, of course (you can play it in real time assuming you have a halfway decent machine and select the right options).

With a soundtrack open AS will "skip" playing some of the sound correctly but still maintain a pretty smooth playback even with dozens of characters loaded. However, after I render in AS I bring it into Premiere and render out there for final timing checks (I'm doing just that right now -- a 30 minute weekly TV series project that I rendered last night in AS and then the final movie in Premiere. This morning I spent five hours tweaking it, and now I'm rerendering as we speak).

[John25S]

I know how to time it with the sound track, (I'm almost done with a 60 minute movie) but what im referring to the indvidual BMP frames AS exports them to. When you import them into a program (for example) Windows Movie Maker they are spaced out in "5 second" increments.

[Genete]

I know how to time it with the sound track, (I'm almost done with a 60 minute movie) but what im referring to the indvidual BMP frames AS exports them to. When you import them into a program (for example) Windows Movie Maker they are spaced out in "5 second" increments.

You have to specify to the program that load the image sequence the duration for each image. It seems that for WM Maker it is set to 5 seconds by default (for a slide show). If your original animation was created at 25 fps you have to set the duration of each frame to 1/25 seconds (that is 0.04 seconds).

-G

[mkelley]

Yes and in many editing programs (like Premiere) you can tell it that you are importing a sequence and point it to the first image and it will load all of them in the proper duration.