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composited render never looks like beauty render
updated 8 years, 6 months ago
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I simply want my composited render to look exactly like my beauty render but when overlaying the 2 final pictures on top of each other in After Effects, there is always a slight difference. As for my composited layers, it’s super simple consisting of one scene render of my foreground 3D objects with mia_sky “use background” checked ON and no texture plugged so the backgrounds is pure black and another render of my mia_sky background with all the rest hidden. I have “pre-multiply” checked on in the render globals and when importing to After Effects I check “premultiplied with black” in the import footage settings. I don’t understand why I don’t get the exact same result as my beauty render. What am I doing wrong?
Here is a link to the project so if you check the EXR renders in the image folder, and composite them you should see the difference. I also attache an After Effects projects in the same folder where comp1 shows the difference between the 2 results (comp2 is the background and foreground combined together):
https://www.filefactory.com/file/667…ition_issue.rar
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Walter Soyka
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sorry about that, here is a new link:
https://www.filefactory.com/file/48girh3u9n7j/2014_sample_issue.rar -
[roy achkar] “I have “pre-multiply” checked on in the render globals and when importing to After Effects I check “premultiplied with black” in the import footage settings. I don’t understand why I don’t get the exact same result as my beauty render. What am I doing wrong?”
The rendered foreground element provided actually has straight alpha.
Walter Soyka
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that can be the case, because when rendering the image out of maya, i am checking the “premultiply” option. Any ideas?
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[roy achkar] “that can be the case, because when rendering the image out of maya, i am checking the “premultiply” option. Any ideas?”
Yet, it is the case.
I am not a Maya user, so I can’t help you on that end.
Look at your foreground EXR file — in interpret settings, change the alpha interpretation to ignore. If it were premultiplied, the fully-transparent areas would be black. However, you see the background, indicating straight alpha.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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when I do this, the fully transparent pixels (so in my case the gray and blue area) show the background and not a black color. And its identical to the beauty render. Does this mean that maya is outputing a straight alpha and not pre-multiply?
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