Chris Wright
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yes, just find the effects window.
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try to key out the sky, then use that as an alpha matte for sky replacement
this ae cs5.5 template might help. it can key out difficult white skies by procedurally keying saturation, color, and brightness.
https://f1.creativecow.net/7029/ae-cs55-sky
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i haven’t converted it into your project, but you could use my cut detector code, similar to magnum edit detectors to auto detect the cuts in the footage.
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I agree 100% with Tero.
If you look at the rec. 709 curve, most of the bits are spread toward the middle luma, because shadows and highlights have less bits to work with in 8 bit.
human eyes need a delta of 1% to not see banding. so linear light needs to be at least 14bits.
Since most cameras are only 8 bit, in the rec.709 gamma curve, the contrast ratio cannot exceed 50:1 or just a few f-stops.
With lower end cameras, the latitude range is less than 14 so you’re having to share only around 8 f-stops, leaving about 3 and half above and below the middle!!!
So, as a rule of thumb, what you actually want to focus on is the f-stop difference between the middle and shadows so you can decide how to compromise on highlights being blown out without getting muddy blacks. You’ll need a light meter to gauge the 3.5 f-stops from fill light to shadow light.
Hope this clears it up a little.
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the only thing i know of is RSMB set at -2(neg 2).
https://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/after-effects/but honestly, there’s almost no information left to work with.
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1 .alternate software like compressor not available, some plugins are mac only
2. no prores without buying a license for pc
3. hard drive swaps from mac to pc not same formatting unless exfat
4. possible windows 10 issues
5. hakintosh is not supported in tech support and needs drivers that are hard to find
6. r3d 4k playback could be from slow disk access speed not a slow computer
7. premiere supports native proxies now
8. mac pro trashcan can’t playback very well. it uses slow video card and slow hard drives. and low clock speed.(there’s many posts on adobe.com about this)a new computer worth upgrading would probably cost $5,000 for anything decent:
xeon’s are clock limited so go i-7
i7-6950x 10 core.
supported overclock motherboard
fast ddr4-3000 speed memory 64GB
huge psu
good cpu cooler
several SSD’s, one or more perferably m2.x4(sm961) or 4TB samsung evo sata 3
large hd’s for storage
gfx card like 1080 or quadro(10 bit)
10 bit monitor
output card blackmagic 4k -
digital anarchy is only $149. revision deflicker is $249. The reason? They work. There aren’t really many free or cheap ways to fix advanced problems. There are some old ways like:
AE’s color stabilizer
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/color-correction-effects.htmlor msu’s free virtualdub filter
https://www.compression.ru/video/deflicker/index_en.htmlor my AE template that uses shadow/highlighter filter as a script to average the total screen flicker(good for old film or timelapse)
https://f1.creativecow.net/6154/auto-white-balance-cs3-and-upbut those older methods probably can’t solve advanced issues likes rolling lines on TV that the expensive plugins can do.
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adobe’s AME now supports h.265(which is even smaller than h.264, but not as many players support it. also try variable bitrate.
https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/using/file-formats-supported-export.html#main-pars_headeryou can also try handbrake with RF instead of bitrate. RF is constant quality,
the real trick is the bits per pixel threshold which means that a 320×240 with high bitrate would better than a 1920×1080 with low bitrate.
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1. import project into another sequence
2. try disabling h.264 acceleration in prefs-media
3. set projects-renderer to software
3. delete all media cache
4. make sure you have same video codecs installed
5. purge plugin cache/preferences by restarting and holding down (Mac, press Shift+Option) ( PC, press Shift+Alt. ) -
prefs-Renderer-software
or try updating video driver