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  • Difficult Workflow FCP – AE – SHAKE – AE

    Posted by Jan Gassmann on December 16, 2010 at 10:39 am

    Dear Friends
    I just read myself a whole day through a lot of posts on this site, still I can t figure out the right solution for my problem. I m retiming material for a feature film to 24P (shot on 5D).

    My Workflow

    – I m exporting from FCP a Refrence File of the scene

    – I m exporting it in AE CS 5 as a tiff sequence in 16 Bit (Seems to contain much more information, than the same frame exported from fcp, when I check them both in Photoshop)

    – I m doing the retiming in Shake and want to export it as a Tiff Sequence 16 Bit.

    – I want to check the length (Shake is missing some frames sometimes) in either FCP or AE. I know FCP is not able to handle 16bit. AE does and put the whole Film together

    – I export the Film as a huge tiff Sequence from AE to give it to my grading in smoke.

    My problem is now: Every tiffsequence I export from Shake is in 8 Bit (so the information is less, than what I put into shake). I can check the 16 Bit button in the global settings, but it doesn t seem to help.

    I know about the Gamma on the monitor problems. My biggest concern is losing information, since the movie is shot quiet dark. I also know about the YUV RGB Issue, thats why I want to go mostly through AfterEffects, which seems to handle the conversion in a better way.

    Can someone please comment on my workflow? I m quite new in the shake area and not used to write log files and stuff. So please be friendly…

    Thanks a lot in advance!

    Jan

    https://www.arsonfilm.com

    Jan Gassmann replied 15 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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