[Alexandre Cruz]

Sorry folks,

This should be at Apple’s Color Forum.

Thanks.

Alex

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil

[Alexandre Cruz]

Well,

It stopped again on shot 1511. Weird.

This time Color did’nt crash, so I sent the sequence to FCP, saved the project in FCP, quit FCP and when I got back to Color it just hanged out for lots of minutes and then came back safe, so I went to Color’s rendered media files’ folders, deleted temp shot on folder # 1512, came back to Color, selected shots from # 1512, added to render queue and restarted rendering…

Hope it works so my workaround it will be a little less hard to make.

Thanks again folks.

Alex

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil

[Alexandre Cruz]

Hey David,

Yes, I really tested the workflow extensively before get into the compositing. DVCPRO HD showed me the nasty blocks, so I used Apple ProRes.

Then, sometimes when I exported from that timeline without Recompress All Frames checked, some layers came with worst quality than what it had in the timeline.

In the middle of the process I lost all my compositing settings but I had the rendered results so far. As I had to change some of the comps I used those results as a start and then the “digital noise” appeared, only then.

I know it sounds pretty rookie, I mean, it doesn’t make any sense this “sometimes works and sometimes not” behavior, but I double checked everything and still… that’s what I got.

And a confession: I lost all my comp’s settings while I was trying to save Color’s project inside my folder named settings… next thing I know Color overwritten my folder… yes, that was pretty rookie of mine… 😉 but the rest I guarantee I didn’t screw up. I really paid attention.

Many thanks indeed for your help David through the weekend and all… Thanks a lot. And as soon as my clients air the ad I’ll send you a link to watch it.

Best

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil

[Alexandre Cruz]

Hey,welcome,

Yes, it’s there too, a little better but worst than the original.

The final deliver it’s going to be NTSC SD, so I hope everything is going to be better at the end.

It’s just that my eyes won’t miss that noise.

Thanks Eric.

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil

[Alexandre Cruz]

I did that because sometimes when I exported using Current Settings from that timeline, imported what I just exported and put it over the same shot they looked different. And “forcing” it to export using Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ) solved the problem.

Anyway I’ll try. But the artifacts are happening after a second compositing pass using the same material Combustion rendered.

Thanks David.

Alex.

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil

[Alexandre Cruz]

Hello David, thanks for asking.

The timeline format is Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) 1280×720 23.98 (that I read here in the forum that’s really 23.976, as After Effects sees it).

I export using File|Export|Quicktime Movie using instead of “Current Settings” Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) 1280×720 24p 48kHz, Video Only, Recompress All Frames and Make Movie Self-Contained.

Then I make the compositing in Combustion and render using the same Codec Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). The thing is that if I go for a second generation compositing, re-inputting a rendered composite result in a new composition (I lost some of my comps’ settings, that’s why I need to recomp over a shot already semi-composited) the next result shows some degradation. You can see the noise stronger that before. And I’m pretty sure that is not because of Color Correction or other operator causing lost of digital information.

I can send some images through e-mail if you want to see it.

And again, thank you so much for answering.

Cheers.

Alex

Alexandre Cruz
http://www.nuclear.art.br
São Paulo – Brasil