[Alexander Pedersen]

[Walter Soyka] “Click on the name of the layer in the title bar of the effects control panel (right next to the words “Effect Controls”), then select “New Effects Control Viewer.” You can create as many ECPs as you like and lock them to specific layers.”

YES!! Exactly what I was looking for. Pretty well hidden, Adobe! Thank you, Walter!!

[Alexander Pedersen]

Bump!

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

I filmed myself with thick brown hair and a girl with long blonde and flimsy hair and with her hair I had serious problems. It was as if there was ‘noise’ at the thinnest of her hair. No matter what I did I could not get rid of it even with garbage masks as you did. I found out the only thing that worked was actually denoising it. Even though it was very noise free to my eyee there actually was some and Neatvideo actually helped me a lot. Not perfect still long from. I don’t even know if that is your problem but I think the only way to get it completely right is to reshoot and then figure out the perfect amount of light on the green screen compared to the talent. On my shoot I think my green screen was actually brigther and I read somewhere that Keylight likes the green screen several stops darker than the talent.

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Hey Chris

I cannot find said “utility profile converter rec709”? Is it a plugin or what? I only found a Color Profile Converter and even though I messed a little around with that it had no effect on the render of the H264 file.

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Okay, so it’s gotta be something with my export settings or settings in After Effects, not my footage. Cause I just did a test with a whole new project and comp with a simple red background and a black solid. Exported with the YouTube preset from After Effects and both in VLC and uploaded to YouTube it’s flat – the black is not pure black. See for yourself (compare with the blackness of YouTube’s letterboxes in the bottom):

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Hey Dave

Thanks for the quick answer.
I did that, same old thing. I choose the preset under YouTube: YouTube HD 1080p 23.976 8 Mbps and I get the same flat image in VLC and I just uploaded to YouTube – still flat.

Again the weird thing is when I import this very file I just created back into AE it shows correct once again….?? I’m thinking it might be how AE/PP shows my files? That it shows this flat image as not flat but in reality it is..?

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

And here is what I mean in pictures:

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Oh, so you’re emplyed at Adobe? Still an issue in CC?
And I don’t know why, but my last post got cut off before my solution was finished. I had a special symbol in my post that appearently cut off the remaining text, but it’s updated now and it does work now in Premiere! I wonder if it has any consequences because if the fix is that simple, I don’t get why Adobe hasn’t implemented it by themselves yet.

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Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Okay, I fixed it! Thanks to Dennis I could deduce it was simply how Premiere handled the DNxHD codec and appearently it’s just a bug they haven’t fixed yet in CS6. I don’t know how it is in CC.

If anyone else finds this thread with the same problem the fix is fortunately rather simple:

Open:
C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
and locate the file
MediaCoreQTCodecRulesCS6.xml
open this with any text program, I just used Wordpad. You need to locate four lines concerning the DNxHD codec, all starting with “QTCodec codec=’AVdn'”. Two of them (the 2nd and 4th) ends with “decodefourcc=’2vuy'”. You need to change both lines with ‘2vuy’ to ‘argb’. Save and you should have no problem reading the alpha of the DNxHD in Premiere.

Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB

[Alexander Pedersen]

Hi Dennis

Now I have and thanks, I guess you were right. I tried the “Lossless Alpha” codec and I do indeed now have transparency as I want it in Premiere. So the problem is appearently how Premiere interprets the alpha channel of the DNxHD codec. The thing is, DNxHD+alpha files are already HUGE (15 GB for 3,5 min) but the Lossless Alpha seems more than twice the size(!) That’s simply too much for a project with as many clips as I have..

Does anyone know a workaround for Premiere to acknowledge the alpha channel of the DNxHD or do you have any other recommendations as to what codec to use with an alpha channel while still maintaining a good image quality within reasonable disc usage?

Messing around in After Effects and Premiere Pro

Specs for whenever I forget to include it in my oh so many forum questions:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU: Intel i7-4770K @ 3,5GHz
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill 2133MHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 760
Motherboard: ASUS Z87-Pro
Seagate 1 TB