Strange flikkering and render mistakes using Star Generator in BCC 7

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

What is the exact nature of the errors that you mention? Can you describe them in detail?

Meanwhile, would it be possible for you to try to do this in After Effects with the same filter to see if it works in that environment?

Thanks,

Peter.

[Itamar Kool]

I am actually working in After Effects. Sorry that I didn’t mention that. It is somethinh I believe I have noticed before. Every so many seconds a part of the picture is blank for a couple of frames. The things that should have been there just don’t show up. Couple of frames later the picture is complete again.

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[Peter Mcauley]

Very odd alright. What are the dimensions of the frame? What (if any) parameters in the filter are set to animate?

Thanks,

Peter.

[Itamar Kool]

The composition is in old fashioned PAL 720×576 (not anamorphic). No animated keyframes. Galaxies are on as well as shinig stars

Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.6.8/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 3/Adobe Production Premium 5.5
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[Peter Mcauley]

Could you please save the settings file from the BCC Stars filter and send that to me – I’ll then try to reproduce it here on one of our systems. Interestingly I just used a Mac with AE CS 5.5 and BCC 8 to render out a 10 second HD 1920 x 1080 clip and every frame was as expected. I’ll try it again with your settings.

You can send that to me at peterm@borisfx.com

Thanks,

Peter.

[Itamar Kool]

Hi Peter, Thanks for the quick responses!! I believe I just found the problem. I had ‘multiple layers’ on with the move type ‘forward’. When I unchecked the mutiple layers box en put the move type back to ‘side’, the problem had gone. Before all this, AE had crashed when I put the move type to ‘forward’ without checking the mutiple layers box. Is this somehow meaningful?

Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.6.8/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 3/Adobe Production Premium 5.5
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl

[Peter Mcauley]

Well I’m really glad that you were able to discover the issue and are now able to complete the project. I’ll see if setting up the filter as you have done on one of our systems enables us to reproduce the missing frame on render.

Anyway, glad that you got it to work.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Itamar Kool]

Thanks, I did send you the preset. If you find anything, let me know.

Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.6.8/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 3/Adobe Production Premium 5.5
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[Peter Mcauley]

Thanks – I appreciate that. I’ll let you know if we can reproduce the problem.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Itamar Kool]

Hi Peter, Here I am again. Same problem. Turning off the pulitple layer checkbox hasn’t helped, it turns out. Did you find out anything?

Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/OS 10.6.8/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 3/Adobe Production Premium 5.5
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl