Andras Sarkadi
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Cory, have you tried changing the alpha type of the PNG to straight/white/black? That could help as well…
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From what i’ve seen so far, opening an MPEG1 is much easier than making it. If I could go from FCP to a 640×480 MPEG1 without doing any intermediate conversion, i would be the happiest editor alive…
ffmpegX looks interesting, I’ll check it out tomorrow, but it still needs a MOV to start with. You can say I’m lazy, but i like to think I’m just impatient. And the clients as well.sasa
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Sometimes AE handles the QT files I export from FCP with wrong field order, even if they are progressive. Try ‘Interpret footage’ and look at ‘separate fields’. There might be something surprising.
Good luck
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Ramona, and Everyone reading and writing
I am not abandoning the topic, sorry for the long pause, just had to finish a couple of projects in these days. Ramona thanks for the tons of information and questions, going to answer. and yes. I am learning the rules. 🙂
I just realized yesterday, that the other computer connected to our Xsan is reading 3x quicker than mine. around 650 Mbyte/sec. We are looking into that problem as well, will be interesting to see what causes it.
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Gary, I’m pretty new to the mac-fcp-aja world. I had no idea i would run into problems like that. And i never wanted to work with a dpx sequence in this project. There are so many other unknown factors about using aja and fcp for me, that I wanted follow the route i know and trust, and that was 1. to have a sequence that matches the grading, but in a format i know, trust and can use in AE, Nuke, whatever. 2. make a movie out of that to use in fcp. Two weeks ago that was the idea of a workflow in the given situation.
If I feed the DPX files to AE and convert them to ProRes, I have the same problem…Andras
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Gary, the TGA sequence originates from a DPX sequence which comes from a Baselight grading session. I didn’t really trust AE to do the DPX-TGA conversion, so I did it in Digital Fusion. (I know, bringing in another software rarely helps, but I wanted a TGA sequence I can trust). After the conversion, the DPX and the TGA sequence looks the same.
I am reading right now, that switching the “Match Legacy After Effects QuickTime Gamma Adjustments” in AE might help, so I’m going to do a test with that. I work with AE CS4 by the way.thanks again
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Gary, i also have bad stories about IT guys, but this time it was really my fault… thanks for steering me to the righ tool to measure disk performance. I also take a note of what you’ve written above about estimating disk needs.
Jeremy, I upgraded to the 6.0.3 Kona drivers, but I still had the problem. After that I removed the AJAUncompressed codec.component file, but I still have the color shift…
I uploaded a file with jpg exports of two versions I have now. Both versions were converted in AE from a TGA sequence. The uncompressed version matches the source perfectly.
If you have the time, please check it out:
http://www.umbrella.hu/uncomp.vs.prores.jpgthanks for all your help
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Thanks Jeremy, that sounds great, first thing to try tomorrow morning.
As noone mentioned any codec that could be useful and its name is starting with AJA, i have to ask why?Andras
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Thanks Jeremy, i’m testing the ProRes way right now, but I already have something strange happening. I put a dpx sequence to After Effects, rendered it out in Uncompressed 8bit, Prores HQ, and Prores HQ with 4:4:4 Chroma filtering enabled (not quite sure what it means, but why not try.)
I imported everything into FCP, and they all look similar and good, me happy. But opening the same files in AE and looking at them at the video monitor shows different results. The uncompressed looks similar to the original, but the both Prores videos look much lighter, like it had a gamma correction applied to it.
what could be causing this?
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Dear Gary,
you were absolutely right, I stand humbled. I’m not getting 2Gbytes/sec. I get around 180-190 Mbytes. I ran the wrong test i guess…
So now I’m going to retest the codecs i have with that result in mind…
Jeremy, you also said ProRes would be my best bet? And yes, I am getting used to the fact that FCP+AJA is something different. 🙂 I won’t mind if i can have predictable, good-looking results after the images go through a complete workflow.
Have any of you tried Sheervideo codec? I think I will test it as well, but would love to hear your opinions about it.
Ramona thanks for the Rave idea, but I don’t think that my studio could afford something like that after getting the SAN 🙂thanks for your time and help
Andras