hi everyone,

 Link to the stills rather than capture them

Yes, to clarify the response, when you capture file based sources like still images DS will capture them at the current resolution so you will get the same thing you get in Media Composer or Symphony.

However, if you link to the files they will remain true to their native resolution. If your files are very large you can zoom in quite close. And the best thing about linking is that you can swap out the files by simply overwriting or renaming them.

Thanks for your responses guys. Very helpful and have been flying ever since...

However..... I would now like to be able to matte shape the high res image and animate it, keeping the resolution. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a way of accessing the whole high res image to draw my matte shape as I only have the portion of the frame to work with (pal frame)?? I can resize it to pal frame then cut it out, then animate it but I then lose the resolution once i blow it up again?

please help

kind regards

craig

Link to the image, cut it into your sequence, put a matte effect on that clip, open the matte effect and view the whole frame ( you should see the whole hi rez image), cut you matte, add DVE, animate.

Make sense?  Good luck,

Jef

Check your options tab on the Matte effect. If you have "output frame size" checked, DS will crop the image to the current frame size. It helps with render times, as it only calculates what is inside the frame. So, turn it off to create your matte, turn it on before you make your final render.

Michael

What Michael said.  I was in a hurry when I wrote my quicky recipe. 

Cheer,

Jef

thanks for all the help guys... much appreciated!!!

all the best

c

mrmikster:

turn it off to create your matte, turn it on before you make your final render.

Hey Michael, you weren't thinking that through.... he'll need to keep it unchecked on his Matte Effect.

Cheers,
Tone :)

You're right, I missed the part where he is going to translate the image after the matte has been cut. Keep the "output frame size" unchecked on the matte effect.

Michael

hi guys,

thanks for the help so far, much appreciated!!

have managed to make the matte shapes using the matte track effect which is great, however i don't seem to be able to view the whole frame using matte effect in composite mode? as i'm doing alot of 'tree' work that would be preferable or do i just have to stick to the track effect, make my shapes, save them, then apply them into the composite???

thanks in advance

c

Make sure you turn the same Output Frame Size switch in the Composite node and the slice node.  That gets me all the time.

I do lots of tree stuff all the time as well this way.  It is just a matter of finding all the places that can restrict the frame size.

Jef

jef:

you turn the same Output Frame Size switch {off}

However, be careful and think about what you are doing.  DS doesn't care (within reason) how big your image is, but your rendering times certainly do.  Think about it - if DS calculates a 720 x 576 image then it has around 415,000 pixels to manipulate.  Double the image size and it has 1.6 Million pixels to calculate.

So, what's my point? It is to only turn Output Frame Size off where necessary and only on those nodes that MUST have it turned off.

Here's an example - a large linked image that needs to be cut out with a Matte node and then DVE'd around.  The ONLY node that needs to have Output Frame Size turned off in this example would be the Matte node.

Regards,
Tone :)

Tony is correct.

I have seen editors setup trees that literally would not render.  But with a bit of refining and placing "Output Frame Size On" turned on at strategic point made it doable.

Jef

And don't forget, judicious use of cache nodes in a complex tree can be a real timesaver.

Michael