Wildform FX Pro

Movick wrote on 8/21/2006, 4:23 PM

Does anyone have any expertise with this program? I got pretty decent results initially with this thing; however, lately, it's been acting up terribly. Tech support is e-mail only and I have a couple of 30 second spots that need to get done ASAP.

First, as of late, when I render out to .AVI with transparency, even though I have a black background selected, it appears blue in the timeline and media pool. After I assign the properties in VV5 to straight unmated, there are traces of the blue in the animated effects silhouette. I’ve also found it impossible to render black text on a white background. The bilinear filter, which ostensibly smoothes jagged text makes the render completely invisible in the timeline after the straight unmated selection. The text quality currently is not crisp, looks rather poor and shows significant aliasing/artifacting. I believe I have all the .AVI video settings correct: transparent background checked, compression=none, frames per second=29.97, depth millions of colors+, and quality=best.

Do any Wildform Fx users have any suggestions? I really liked this program at first, but it seems to have somehow degraded over the last couple of weeks. This is a really frustrating issue, one which has my workflow at a standstill!

As always, any help is greatly appreciated!

Mov

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epirb wrote on 8/21/2006, 6:47 PM

You may have done this already but try this if you can,
I render to a quicktime .mov file , on the options tab, then setting button set compression type to "animation".
compressor to "millions of colors +"
slider to "best"
as most my stuff is hdv on the movie settings window I click the tab for "size" and select "use custom size" and set it to 1440x1080

if your doing a DV frame size and the trans works this way but you still got the jaggies try rendering out to the HDV res I listed above.

this has seemed to work better for me than uncompressed avi's and I set the alpha channel of the media in Vgeas to premult dirty.

Movick wrote on 8/22/2006, 12:40 AM

Thanks for the tips. Definitely some improvement, however I am still unable to render out black text on a white background. The clip is completely transparent after the pre-multiply/dirty setting.
Very frustrating!

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Mov

Cooldraft wrote on 8/23/2006, 4:44 PM

I use this software all the time. I think that I have found the 'sweet spot':

Render to AVI Millions+
DO NOT USE Bi-flter
Use transparent filter
Bring into v6 and change the alpha-

That is all to make great titles.