[Chris Wright]

not the camera tracker, the furnace tracker.
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/plugins/furnace/features/

“Steadiness automatically tracks and removes translational and rotational camera shake, without requiring the user to select tracking points. This is particularly helpful if you have insufficient stable points for conventional tracking, or where good data points continually move off the screen during a sequence. It also allows motion-smoothing to remove high-frequency camera shake without affecting the underlying camera motion, and can be used to remove minor scale and perspective shifts.”

also:
I use syntheyes which is really easy to use. very powerful, used in big budgets.
https://www.ssontech.com/tutes/tutestabil.html

[Chris Wright]

if your not keying anything, most people use these:

Avid DNxHD vs Apple ProRes
https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en423319
DNxHD is cross platform and less cpu intensive decoding
prores only works in mac(for the most part)
AVIDs ProRes MXF codec wraps fast for native editing in avid

as far as I know, there are no uncompressed lossless prores files.
https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf

some people recommend Cineform 16bit RGB codec.(the go pro codec)
https://shop.gopro.com/softwareandapp/gopro-studio/GoPro-Studio.html#/start=1

if you’re keying, and you can’t lose a single bit of data, you’ll need uncomressed 444. quicktime png avi is only 8 bit though but AVCHD is also only 8 bit anyway so there’s no advantage to transcoding to 16 bit.

if you converted out of AVCHD into 16 bit land, you’ll want to stay there throughout the grading process.

[Chris Wright]

did you try reinstalling quicktime so that adobe can detect it again?

[Chris Wright]

its 18/24(75%) so…
it might be 125% which is 100-75=25% slower(backwards of timewarp) like timestretch

[Chris Wright]

here’s compressor’s method
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/converting_frame_rates_compressor.html

fcpx incorporates shake’s(compressor’s) optical flow
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12648?locale=en_US

if you ever get AE as a trial, try these templates.

if you have any flickering, white balance issues, try my free ae auto whitebalance
https://f1.creativecow.net/6154/auto-white-balance-cs3-and-up/comments

whites blown out ae
https://f1.creativecow.net/6445/6445

technicolor (bring back colors) ae
https://f1.creativecow.net/9780/ae-technicolor-cc-2015

extra:
always fix the white point, black, gamma, then white balance first before doing color correction. you can use curves(transfer mode color) to separate the colors at the shoulder. always sharpen after color correction. also, you might need to stabilize the footage if you have gate weave. remove grain if applicable.
example:
ae
https://f1.creativecow.net/9270/wedding-test

[Chris Wright]

did you try reencoding them with handbrake? it might be a video codec/audio vbr issue.

[Chris Wright]

You may want to consider upgrading to the foundry’s 3d tracker or syntheyes for professional results. They can add/remove track points as you go, lens distortion, etc.

[Chris Wright]

if you take stabilized footage and speed it up, it might end up looking shaky again because you’re exagerating all the bumps ae tried to reduce in the first place. Are you speeding it up whole frames, frame blend, or pixel blend?

I would first make sure that the stabilized footage is locked down 100%. Any perturbations will need to be almost zero.

If it still doesn’t work, either try another method of warp stabilizing or try some other methods.

there’s a free deshaker for virtualdub which might give the desired stabilization. then speed it up in ae or premiere with optical flow.

if all that still doesn’t work, precomp footage, drop the precomp into another layer. timestretch it 50% and apply timewarp 50%. This will average out the shakyness by warping all frames and returning the averaged motion optically.

[Chris Wright]

visual improvements, cc 2015 compatible
9780_3stripgammamattebeta1.aep.zip

[Chris Wright]

I thought i might add, if you really, really want to render dng, you can open a Premiere Pro sequence containing After Effects Compositions directly in SpeedGrade. SpeedGrade opens the sequence in Direct-Link mode, from where you can color grade the compositions just as you would color grade any Premiere Pro sequence. and then from there, speedgrade can render out dng image sequences!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyl7t0DdQs
but that requires a lot of ram, cpu. it’s easier to render out a cineon although the file size is 3x. That’s why initial conforms are so important, they save hd space.

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