Weird stuff when exporting (part 2)

[David Bogie]

> Exports look nowhere near as good using animation codec- fullsize, full resolution- as when previewing in Motion. Soft edged masks go awry and a fade up from black on one of the layers at the begining just doesn’t render. I’d noticed this particular problem before but just worked around it.

Exports or renders?
My renders out of Motion using Animation are exquisite.

However, there are several weirdly subtle bugs in Motion. Depending on your project design and how you have the layers stacked, you could be running into a few of them. But I don’t think so. The bugs only seem to show up in super complex 3D projects with nested groups/layers.

I debug these issues in Motion by turning off layers one at a time and making test renders.
Sorry not to be of more help.

bogiesan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks David,

No, a straight forward SD project output by file/export/QTmovie and then setting the relevent parameters.

The fade-up from black is on one of the layers, and renders perfectly to ram but not on the op file.

I’ll experiment using other QT codecs.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Okay, found it!!

Outputting with unpremultiplied alpha. I assumed that as I didn’t need the alpha channel, if I just rendered in colour instead of colour + alpha It would ignore this setting. Not so!!

User error

Alan