[Ben Trahair]

Hi Paulos.

Sounds like you’ve run out of ram to me. After Effects will ram preview as much of the work area as it can. When it runs out it loops back to the beginning and plays out as much as its been able to cache.

The green line issue you have there is the cached ram dropping itself out and being replaced by the new part of the comp that you are previewing on the fly.

I’d recommend droping the ram preview resolution down if you haven’t already and maybe try changing your layer quality settings to draft, or setting your 3d settings to draft 3d if its a comp with lights.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

Fantastic!

Thanks so much Julian.

[Ben Trahair]

Thanks Darby,

Will have a play round with this recipe!

Cheers,

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

Thanks Jon.
Will keep working at it!

Any other suggestions are welcome too.

Cheers,

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

Hey thanks Macohead. What an awesome little tutorial!

[Ben Trahair]

Ahh, thanks heaps Adam!
I totally missed the RLA/RPF options.

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

The plugin actually lives inside the exchange plugin directory on the install folder – \CINEMA 4D R10\Exchange Plugins\aftereffects\
Just copy it into your after effects plugin folder and away you go!

[Ben Trahair]

Thanks for the input guys,

Have checked out Steve Bayes stuff and it looks like what I’m after.
Also taking a gamble on one of the on the spot books. Have read them for after-effects and final cut and they’ve provided heaps of good tips.

Cheers

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

Thats it! Under keyframe interpolation temporal was linear and spatial was autobezier.

Thanks for the tip!

Ben

[Ben Trahair]

What bit depth is your project setup for?
If its 8bpc try switching to 16bpc via project settings.
Even if it doesn’t look any better in the comp window try doing a test render and see if the banding goes away.

Hope that helps,

Ben