[Anthony Dupsta]

I have found that Keylight is not a one click keyer. I like the control it gives me but it does take some time to figure out. I end up tweaking many of my settings to really get what I want. Many of the compositors I work with don

[Anthony Dupsta]

Why is it easier with the light emitter? I do use particular and use the light emitter. I have also just used 3d position data from a null or small solid. I am not disputing I am just wonder how it is easier?
Thanks for the advice.
I will try a side by side and maybe I will see.

[Anthony Dupsta]

yup, that’s the ticket. Thank you.

Wish pickwip was smarter so I can be dumber.

Cheers

[Anthony Dupsta]

Andrew Kramer has saved me. He has given me the strength and power to carry on.

I believe Andrew preaches the tru AE gospel.

Thank you dear sir.

You have made all my wildest dreams come true, seriously!!!

Much Love to Kramer.

[Anthony Dupsta]

I see the dilemma. I understand AE might have to raise the price if they tried to compete as a high end compositing app: therefor I will stop complaining. For the most part AE is been amazing for me, and I appreciate adobe.
As for Nuke: Did I hear right , DD sold that app to Discreet, AKA Auto Desk? (terrible name)
Interesting. I kinda remember this at NAB.
I work with macs more so Nuke and Fusion will be kept in the horizon. But that is really a good move.

I do hope AE will become more comfortable with 4k jobs though. We shall see.

Thanks for everything, I am moving smooth now, cut up my image, pulled some clone painting off, and fired up the render farm. I am in full swing.

Cheers
Dupsta

[Anthony Dupsta]

Thats a good idea with breaking this sucker up and parenting it. My I T guy is installing faster processors Mon. I did a test on a third box and the render time was 5 times faster. I have a 246 processors and I am getting an upgrade 248 or something. But that is not the major culprit.
Again I was doing a majority of these test not over the network to eliminate the network as the issue. But my renders will go to the farm eventually.
I was not aware that a layer that is 4000×5000 but is only 1mb will still choke AE. That is good to know. I thought file size was more important than resolution.
I have inherited this comp so I am diggin deeper and deeper. I will look at the ram and memory issue but it seems standard.

You guys gave me some great jumpin points and I will look into all these ideas.
Side note:
Will AE ever change their pipeline to handle larger VFX film out projects. Like Shake or other node based compositing software? AE seems to choke on most 4k projects. Or I just have things improperly setup for large 4k jobs. Gerrr

Thank again, very helpful tips

[Anthony Dupsta]

I hear what you are saying! Thanks for the reply.
When I say bigger jobs: This is one file at 78mb. I am talking 4k SGI image sequences taking me into 3-4 gig files. Take 50 of those seq in a comp and thats pretty heavy. So this isn’t that out of control.

What have I changed? Well I have done those jobs on similar computers, at diff. studios. So I don’t work on one system for all my jobs.
Anyway I am looking into some of the clone properties within a 4000×5000 matte painting and some color space issue. I am still tinkering a day later, so any helpful ideas would be great.

[Anthony Dupsta]

Just FYI to Folks, and correct me if I am wrong
Saving out presets and than reapplying them will not work.
In regards to presets, find a trusty pen and paper!

[Anthony Dupsta]

Thanks Jack,
After installing the new keylight patch, the comp gives a warning message informing me that the version of keylight it is looking for is missing. The old keylight was used about 25 time in the comp. Does this mean we need to re-key everything with this new patch?
Please get back to me.
Thanks.

FYI, I have been reading this is a bug for 6.5, we are using 7.0 pro. Also we are running @ 23.976

Thanks again for you time.

[Anthony Dupsta]

See what is strange is this problem has happened to the user from 2004. So I know I am not alone.
The frame that becomes chopped is a random frame. The frame that is chopped, when purged, goes away. It is not any specific frame, it could be frame 8 than 20, than on another render it could be 7 than 10 than 16. Again, like the user from 2004, it effects final renders and previews. I might need to contact adobe for this.