Forum: Carrara


Subject: Gonna be on TV! Tips, please.

JasenJ1 opened this issue on Feb 24, 2006 ยท 9 posts


sfdex posted Fri, 24 February 2006 at 8:52 PM

You probably also want to run an "NTSC Safe Color" filter on the final output in the Avid; Carrara will sometimes (particularly when rendering flames -- you did say a flaming spin) render colors that are outside of the NTSC ability to represent. That would wind up causing buzzing in the audio track (yes, the video will affect the audio track) on many home TVs. I render my video images at 30 FPS 720 x 480 with a pixel aspect ratio of .9 for DV NTSC video. I edit in Adobe Premiere Pro and Media 100, and this size and shape works just fine. You should probably consult your editor to find out what frame size Avid needs. One other off-topic thing, and this might be too late, but I don't think that the grammar in your logo is correct. Obsolete English has two second person forms, much like Spanish. These forms are "you" which is formal and "thou" which is informal (equate these to "usted" and "tu," in Spanish or "Sie" and "Du" in German). The graphic says "For Thou, Oh Lord." In this context, the second person pronoun is the direct object and should conjugate as "thee." If the second person pronoun was the object, "thou" would be correct -- "Thou art my Lord," for instance. But as it is now, it should read "For Thee, Oh Lord." Probably only a cranky grammar dork like me would notice this, but I think it's worth noting, if it's not too late to change. Good luck with the project. I'd love to see what you produce. - Dex