[Bruce Gaber]

Nope. The footage is 2648x 2648 as is the comp. (And speaking of comps–why does AE generate a new comp each time I drag a piece of footage into the timeline? And no, I’m not dragging onto the “make new comp icon”)

Bruce

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[Bruce Gaber]

I’d rate myself an experienced apprentice* AE user, been using it for about 2 years
Grainy, as in a print shot from old ISO 400 film; not blurry, grainy
Res is 100%; scaling = 100%; image qual switch = best

I’m thinking that the issue has something to do with the fact that these images were cropped in LR. If I set the layer scaling at about 40% and the screen mag ratio to 100%, the image looks fine. And as I noted before the rendered images are fine. May have to do with how AE is generating thumbnails (is that the way it works?)

Bruce

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[Bruce Gaber]

Thanks Mat

Yes, there are some really mysteries under the hood of AE. Working thru the procedure for uploading screen shots so you can have a look.

Bruce

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[Bruce Gaber]

Hi Dave

Yes, I understand the concept of pixel dimensions. I was simply replying to the previous post on the thread requesting that information.

The issue occurs on importing images directly into AE. I’ve gone back and reproduced the export from LR for both my color corrected and original images as both PSD and TIFF. Now ALL the images show up as grainy when I examine the footage in AE. They render out just fine, look just fine in PS.

Your sage advice is most welcomed–and needed

Thanks

Bruce

Photographer / Motion Graphics Artist
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[Bruce Gaber]

original was 72 ppi, changed to 300 ppi with no change in the image quality in AE. I’m not too surprised as I wouldn’t think this setting would have any effect on AE as it really only applicable to printed images. But worth a try.

What was surprising, though, is that when I rendered out a single frame it was fine, noise-free. So the problem has something to do with the way AE is representing the files, not the files themselves.

Working out how to upload screen grabs

Bruce

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[Bruce Gaber]

images in each sequence are 2648 x 2648 px

bruce

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[Bruce Gaber]

I found the problem–and it was not with AE at all. When I played the rendered mp4 thru AE the sound was fine, and when I via VLC or MPlayerX the sound was fine. The problem, it seems is with the Quicktime player.

[Bruce Gaber]

Thanks Kevin, for the suggestions Dropping the image seq into into a 29.97 comp, or even dropping the comp into a “container” comp simply resulted in a truncated the number of frames (go figure). Changing the actual render frame rate to 30 did produce a correctly timed piece (with, yes, many more frames, as you predicted). But neither fixed the audio problem. I even tried making a comp from the rendered .mov file with the audio added. But again the audio stuttered throughout. Very weird. Any more thoughts?

Bruce

[Bruce Gaber]

Thanks Cassius

I realized a couple of things from your reply. First the brush size is relative, not absolute. So I went back and reduced the size of my image. That solved the problem of not being able to fill the image with the stroke. Second what you said, and my experience of getting an exponentially complicated , lead me to break up the 14 calligraphic strokes into separate PS layers. Once imported into AE each could be managed completely independently–complicated, but linearly so. Much easier. Many thanks

Bruce

[Bruce Gaber]

Thank you Ashish & Vishesh

The problem does seem to be one of resources. When I reduced the resolution for the RAM preview AND flattened the file to reduce its size, the preview proceeded fine. The question now is which resource needs to be enhanced. I am considering adding a 4 Tb G-Raid drive exclusively for my media. If I do so, should the RAM cache be on that drive or remain on the iMac’s system drive? Comments happily received.

Best

Bruce