[Brian Smith]

Actually, as it turns out, I double checked my scratch disk, and it is set for the FAT32 drive. I thought it was set up for the Mac drive. I can only assume that is the issue. I should’ve checked that a long time ago. I’ll run a test and check.

[Brian Smith]

I have the media on two drives, one that is FAT32 (USB 2.0) and one that is Mac OSX Journaled (Extended) FW800. The media was originally copied onto the FAT32 via a MacBook Pro. When I got back to the office, I thought the FAT32 format may be an issue, so I copied everything onto my FW800 drive. That is where I am currently pulling the footage from and copying the QTs to.

[Brian Smith]

I got a demo copy of P2 Log Pro, but that didn’t seem to work either. Getting the cards and camera again aren’t really an option, (maybe an absolute last resort) as they were rented. I burned up my budget for gear the day I rented them. Soooo…. i have been banging my head on my desk for the last couple of days until I finally found a solution. It turns out they will work to capture in no more than 4 minute segments. So essentially I have to add 4 minute segments of each video clip to the queue. They capture fine at 4 minutes, but I still get errors at anything more than that. I don’t know, maybe a bug. Weird. But maybe this can help someone in the future.

Thanks for all your help!
-Brian

[Brian Smith]

The light under the floor helps alot. I had to readjust some of the reflection properties of the floor, but it works well enough.

The light was Volumetric, so I changed it visible and it still has the banding. (I am judging this based on the command+r render view. There is no compression on this at all. I tried intervals of 10 from 1 to 100 on the sample distance, and the only thing that seemed to change was the render time. The banding is still there. I wouldn’t be so concerned about this, but this is eventually going into a DV sequence in FCP, and will ultimately have a DV Compression applied, so the source media needs to be as sharp as possible.

The textures are pretty high res. The ball texture is 8-Bit .bmp at 826×816. The lines on the floor are the same but settings, but the dimensions are 3334×6667. They were also created in Illustrator, and unfortunately, it seems I can’t import vector graphics as textures. I have never had this much of a problem with AA before.

[Brian Smith]

I am rendering to an external HD, but the banding happens when I do a preview render within C4D (command+r). Without the GI, the reflection of the floor isn’t nearly as nice, but the flickering does go away. Would it be worth my time to try my GI settings in Stochastic mode and crank up the stochastic samples to try and limit the noise? I took your advice from a long time ago and got an 8-Core. So I can background render while I’m working on stuff for my actual job (not my freelance) so rendering time isn’t really an issue. (For once…)

Also, any thoughts on the anti-aliasing issue? My AA settings are:

Antialiasing: Best
Filter: Animation
Threshold: 90%
Min/Max Level: 1×1/1×1
MIP Scale: 10%

Thanks!
-Brian
https://www.renderedhero.com/MC_SuperHandles-Intro_v1noGI-H264.mov

[Brian Smith]

The whole shoot was about 4 hours long. The only clips that seem to be working are the ones that were done handheld, where i was constantly hitting the record button on and off. The shots that just sat to capture the talking heads for 17 minutes at a time are the ones that seem to not be working. (They’re also, the most important clips.)

[Brian Smith]

Yes, I’ve tried all the clips multiple times

[Brian Smith]

Yes

[Brian Smith]

Well, it kind of worked. It worked for some of the files, but not all. The ones that it isn’t working with all have “(Spanned)” at the end of them. I have been doing some reading online, and most of the things I have been reading say that it means the footage was shot over two cards. But this was not the case. I shot until one card filled up, stopped the camera, swapped cards, re-formatted the new card and began shoot again. While the new card was shooting, I was copying the files over from the P2 Card to the Ext HD via a P2 Store and MacBook Pro. Any thoughts?

[Brian Smith]

That worked. Perfect! Thanks!