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Stop After Effects from reorientating footage from steadycam red footage
Hi all. Need help. When going frame by frame the problem does not occur. But when pressing preview, After Effects flips the footage around and sometimes randomly throughout the whole preview. I’ve gone into the meta data of the red footage and turned off camera orientation – and then in interpretation in AE i’ve gone into the red settings and turned off camera orientation – for some reason even when doing red settings within the red program – AE seems to want to switch it back on. When I do the red settings in AE – it still leaves the footage reorientated. I deleted the cache and memory and even database. Still it wants to reorientate the footage and even if i flip it myself – it cook one or two frames – then pause – then flip it back when previewing. I reinstalled the red codec and red pro – and double checked with Da Vinci Resolve – it’s only happening in AE and Premiere. Windows 11 Pro. 3080 TI (Laptop)
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When you ram preview do you select portions?
Or the whole clip?
Curious to see if you can pinpoint a part of the clip.
You might need to contact RED on this one.
Have you checked in REDCINE as far as preview?
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Hi Eric – every time its random – it will usually do it at the beginning after two frames – it will render slower as if thinking really hard and then flip the image. Then it continues on the flip image for most of the clip and sometimes (not all ) flipping back at other points. I’m going to contact RED but the problem doesn’t occur when i import it to Da Vinci – Da Vinci remembers the RED meta data that I edited but adobe haha seems to want to ignore me. It’s not the whole clip, I reduced the time and also moved it around. Even without effects it happens. It’s only on the steady cam footage – the rest of the footage seems to be okay. So I am not sure if when I import it to AE , that it suddenly rewrites the RMD file because every time i go into interpretation , even if I’ve turned it off and selected remember interpretation, AE will switch it back on.
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yea that sounds maddening.
I usually dont work in RAW mode in AE since my workflow targets VFX.
So clips get conformed to ProRes flave asap.
Did they supply (only on newer RED cameras) a ProRes proxy?
Curious if that also creates this madness.
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It’s for face replacement – some of the shots have ice skating and roller blading – I wanted to work with the raw directly but I just spoke with the DOP and they said grading house should be okay if I pre conform it to exr – so I’m going to do that instead for now to save time, however I would still love to solve it cause it is maddening and just ridiculous haha 😢
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Forgot to say, only with the raw footage – proxies don’t have the issue.
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To me somethings broken between R3D and Adobe.
But honestly I’ve been working with RED since 2009 and I have never seen that issue.
That would drive me nuts 😛
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Make sure that the interpretation settings in After Effects match the original settings of your footage. Try creating a new project and importing the material again.
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Same thing. It’s every shot in low mode – other steady cam raw shots are okay. As said above, interpretation either doesn’t save or rewrites the red meta data. I uninstalled and even went without plugins – problems replicates all the time. So I’ve had to move on and export the low mode shots to exr. For some reason premiere and after effects (latest at least) don’t like raw in steady cam low mode.
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