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SharonfromMD
SharonfromMD
Inspiring
July 30, 2018
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CA to Encoder Issues with including off the page images

  • July 30, 2018
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So I'm finally getting to the end of one song!  Yeah!  So I tried out encoder. The problem is that the hidden parts of the body in CA are still showing up in Encoder. Do I

have to change the characters to singing heads, or am I doing something wrong in Encoder? My original is 1280 X 720.

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    Correct answer alank99101739

    Thanks Alan. I’m not at the computer now but I just imported all my scenes from AI where I made them 1280x720. So I don’t think I used zoom in at all. In CA I can’t see the characters bodies hanging off the page- I only see that when it’s converted.

    This is my first animation with CA. It’s very slow so making them head only puppets isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Given they come in three times it would probably save a lot of memory.

    Sharon.

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    If CA if you zoom out the scene window you should be able to see a grey semi-opaque border around the scene. You should be able to see the bodies of puppets through the semi-opaque border. I think this goes solid grey (100% opacity) when you start recording. If you cannot see this border, I would suggest adjusting the scene window zoom factor (not in the timeline - the scene window has its own scaling factor which is just used for playback). This is the quickest way to confirm that CA has the scale factor correct - no adjustments to the project, just zoom out the scene window.

    Here is an example I grabbed off the web. See how the gray transparent border at the left edge? You can see the window etc through the grey semi-transparent border. Can you see a similar thing? The puppet bodies (not the heads) should be visible through the frame. If you are not getting the grey semi-transparent layer in front of the puppet bodies, then the contents of the scene is not scaled correctly. If you cannot see this grey border, I would adjust the scene window zoom factor (bottom right corner) until you can see it. (Just remember that if the artwork is all in scene, the gray opaque border may be hard to spot! ;-)

    Even though the original AI files are the right resolution, you can scale them using the Transform behavior. If you can see the whole background with a black border around the original background file, and if the movie is the desired resolution, then *something* got in there and scaled things... Its just a question of what!

    E.g. Maybe there is some media encoder setting to “autoscale to fit in all artwork”. I have never seen such a property however, which is why my first suspicion to rule out is that somewhere along the lines you scaled (on purpose or by accident).

    Another experiement you could try is to just hide the puppets that are outside the desired area and try generating another video. Does the video come out right automatically then? Or does it still look wrong? If there is no puppet outside the normal bounds and it is still scaled wrong, that would eliminate the puppets causing the rescaling. Or redo the puppets without bodies - just trying to think of quicker ways to try and identify the cause of the problem.

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    SharonfromMD
    SharonfromMDAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 31, 2018

    Alan,

    I"m not in the UK-I'm in the Eastern US. I just took a break. Unfortunately, you are correct about the scale. I had it on zoom 200%. I'm going to fool around for a couple of hours and see how difficult it is to change in the scaling on the entire thing. I do not see a way to change the window size in CA-meaning getting it to fit my scenes.

    Live and learn.

    alank99101739
    alank99101739
    Legend
    July 30, 2018

    I have characters off the edge all the time without problem. I would double check the scene dimensions in CH (not sure where) compared to media encoder.. Are you going straight form CH or via premier pro or similar With dynamic linking? I wonder if PP or AE is rescaling.

    SharonfromMD
    SharonfromMDAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 30, 2018

    I will check. I am going directly from CA to Encoder with dynamic linking.

    alank99101739
    alank99101739
    Legend
    July 30, 2018

    In the scene window, if you set the resize factor to “fit”, do you see the whole body (like the video generated?). Just wondering if you scaled the scene window by hand so are not seeing the same as the final video.

    One useful trick is in the scene window is I hold down ALT and use the mouse wheel to zoom out. This greys out (semi transparent) parts of the puppets outside the viewing area. So I often zoom out a bit in the scene window to make sure I understand where the edges are correctly.

    My fear is if you zoomed in the scene window, you may need to reposition and rescale all your  contents. To avoid redoing all that, try using prem pro with dynamic linking to do  the final resize and crop there - so you don’t have to redo all the drags etc.

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