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Excellent - thank you Tomas! Joe T

Hi Tomas, Thank you for your answer to my question. I always render at an Anti-Aliasing Level of 8x8 and a Sampling Level of 2x2, as you have indicated. However, I want to be sure I understand what you mean by "Adaptive to Animations". Does this mean that, in the "Anti-Aliasing" box (the top box in the "Anti-Alias" Tab of the Render Window), you select the "Adaptive" option instead of the "Oversample" option? Sincerely, Joe T

Hi Steven, Thank you very much for responding. I know a lot of people use Adaptive for rendering stills; I just hadn't seen much about using the Adaptive option for rendering animations. Best Regards, Joe T

Hi Everyone, Regarding the choice of either the "Oversample" or the "Adaptive" option in the EI Render Window, I was wondering if anyone has a setting that you generally use in your animation projects? The manual says that the "Oversample" option (the default choice) is best for animations. Selecting the "Adaptive" option increases image sharpness but also increases the chance for flickering to occur in an animation. I know the choice depends on the contents of the scene. For example, if my camera is moving past a white picket fence (with very thin pickets sitting in front of very dark bushes), I imagine choosing "Oversample" would be the best choice. I also imagine that an animation of soft clouds drifting against a blue sky (no trees, landscape or anything else) would probably look the same whether rendered with oversampling or adaptive. I've looked in our CG Talk and EIAS Forums but found very little about this. Thanks in advance for your suggestions . . . Joe T

Hi Gang, I have one more question please . . . I set the frame rate of an EI project to 23.976 fps, rendered it, imported the rendered clip into After Effects and performed an "Interpret Footage" on it. After Effects reported the frame rate of the clip as 23.98 fps. In After Effect's "Interpret Footage" window I can replace 23.98 with 23.976. Then, when I perform another "Interpret Footage", it reports the frame rate as 23.976 fps. Should I do this or leave the Interpret Footage value at 23.98? Someone in an Adobe Premiere forum said 23.98 was just a rounding procedure for the display box (in Premiere). Thank you in advance, Joe T

to Christian, Kurt, Richard and Tomas, Thank you very much for your comments; you have all been a big help to me. It would be nice if there was a single, standard format for high-definition TV instead of the confusing maze of pixel dimensions and frame rates. In one of the articles I read about this subject, the author said "The great thing about standards is that there are so many of them!" Joe Tucciarone

Hi Everyone, I have read that, with respect to high-definition television broadcasting in the United States, "24 frames-per-second" should more accurately be called "23.976 frames-per-second". So, when I render a project in EI that will be used in a high-definition broadcast, should I set the frame rate to "24" or "23.976"? I'm not trying to synchronize my animation to an audio track. Thanks for your advice, Joe Tucciarone

Hi Mark, I might be wrong, but I don't think the density in ColorNoise could ever be changed. Joe T