Hi guys

I'm going to get some animations done with Flash and I will import them into the Avid to check them and lay the soundtrack. This animations will be broadcasted (in the UK, so they are PAL). As far as I know they are going to give me uncompressed QTs. I've never done a job like that, so I want to make sure that I avoid pitfalls.Here are my questions:

1-Is that the best format to get the animations?

2-Which codec should I use? RGB or IRE?

3-The animations are obviously progressive but should I re-render them as interlaced to avoid jerking movement?

4-What's the best way to make sure that the colours are broadcast safe?

Please let me know if there are more issues I should be aware of.

Thanks

Alberto Corredor

1-Is that the best format to get the animations?

to my knowledge, yes.

2-Which codec should I use? RGB or IRE?

my guess, they where done on RGB,

so RGB should be used (to avoid changing color space)

3-The animations are obviously progressive but should I re-render them as interlaced to avoid jerking movement?

I would not.

4-What's the best way to make sure that the colours are broadcast safe?

you can always check the wave form and the vectorscope,

but I would trust the animator and avoid playing with his colors.

good luck.

Thanks Tawlif. Seems like broadcast specifications are not that daunting after all. Normanlly if I add an animation to my edits I add the broadcast filter in After Effects as routine. Should I do that with the quicktimes, or can I just use the color effect in Avid?

Cheers

Alberto

bertocorredor:

Seems like broadcast specifications are not that daunting after all.

yes they are, there are norms and standards we have to follow.

Normanlly if I add an animation to my edits I add the broadcast filter in After Effects as routine. Should I do that with the quicktimes, or can I just use the color effect in Avid?

i am sorry, i am not sure if i understood your question,

Avid does have 3 levels of quality for rendering an effect, if that's what you meant.

bertocorredor:

can I just use the color effect in Avid?

Just adding the color effect to a clip or to a filler layer at the top of the timeline will bring your luminance levels into compliance - 16 to 235. I do this as a matter of routine, just in case I inadvertantly skipped over something. To my knowledge, it doesn't do anything to saturation automatically, so you would have to manually adjust anything that needs tweaking. Use a scope. It's the only way to know for sure.

Good luck.

Right guys. I've got now some animations on quicktime uncompressed done as 1024x576. They look beatiful on Quicktime Player. I'm trying to import them in a D1/DV 16:9 Widescreen project. I've tryied different codecs and settings, but the colors don't look very good to me (a bit washed up) and there is some kind of color banding also going on. We are using an Avid Xpress Pro 5.8.0 (on MAC).

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Alberto

Import the Quicktimes in 1:1 resolution (need mojo on XpressPro) and as RGB color. That should fix banding contrast problems