Magic Bullet Denoiser – Crashing FCP

[Jonah Walker]

I was wrong, at each of the Node errors, the render has a stutter on, so basically Denoiser is not working for me at all in either final cut or After Effects.

My mac is a 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 24GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card.

– Jonah Lee Walker

Video Editor, After Effects Artist
https://www.whaleofatale.net

[Heikki Mummi]

I’ve been having similar problems with denoiser and they’ve always been about incorrect sequence settings. Your video processing must be 8bit and you’ll have to make sure you have the correct field dominance. For example I tought I had the upper fields first, but it came out to me that compressor had been converting my footage to prores without any fields. Loosing the fields wasn’t a problem to me but it sure did mess up my settings, because half of the footage were converted to prores with adobe media encoder which, as a default setting, keeps the fields.

Simple things are often the hardest ones to understand.

[Jonah Walker]

And now I am having an issue with it crashing After Effects CS5.5 as soon as I try and use it. Literally I put it on a clip and After Effects crashes, though the Red Giant Web site seams to say it should be working fine. For me I get an instant crash. Suck!

– Jonah Lee Walker

Video Editor, After Effects Artist
https://www.whaleofatale.net

[Adam Chesbrough]

So I am having trouble here, contacted Magic Bullet and they said that the issue was fixed and that the plugin should work. Are you saying that the solution is to set your Video Processing (within the sequence setting menu) to RGB vs Render in 8-bit YUV? TV works in YUV, my process is to export as uncontained then convert via compressor, could I change to YUV at that point?

I am working with DSLR and EX1R (nanoflash so 180mbs) footage encoded to ProRes LT (1280 by 720) and ProRes respectively. I encoded using MPEG streamclip (upper field first, but now when I check the clip setting the field dominance is “none”, is this an issue.

Thanks for your help

macbook pro 17″ i7, 8GB RAM
2 RAID 0 esata external HD 7200RPM

[Michael Hoopingarner]

I worked around FCP crashing and render problems by changing the Video Processing options as suggested and then exporting my 4 minute movie in 6 pieces. Then reassembled in AE to compress to whatever format i needed. It’s lame but works.

[Ethan Gallo]

Just stumbled on this whilst encountering the same issue. Here is the workaround that worked for me. I’m working with DVCPro 720p30. I exported the clip I wanted to denoise with identical settings as the source essentially creating a copy of the selected portion of the master file. Then I brought it back into FCP literally into the same sequence in which resides the clip that was giving me grief before and 0 issues at all. Obviously this wont be very conducive to large volumes of media, but all I needed was to denoise a :45 sec clip. Give it a try and see if it works for y’all.

Ethan Gallo-