[Chris Wright]

walter is right about misconfigured players outputing 0-255 or 16-235, but you can try burning in the color management with AE’s effect->utility-color profile converter. try rec.0-255 and 16-235 and see if it breaks in other computers. As default, some players do setup a certain way so all you can can hope for is get the greatest group of default setups to be compatible. Besides, most players don’t support color management anyway.

[Chris Wright]

It’s the render output module. If it says millions its 8 bit, trillions 16 bit, float is 32bit.

[Chris Wright]

If you aren’t using wide shots, consider a shotgun mic which has less clothing noise and better off axis rejection
.you can also upgrade to a countryman lav or sessheiser g3
Also an external recorder may improve the noise floor such as a zoom h1 or tascam dr 100 but you have to post sync with ntg3 mic

and remove clothing noise by inverting two sandwiched triangle prices of tape to isolate the mic from the actor

[Chris Wright]

If you’re not shooting raw, native 800 iso will give the largest latitude which is required in contrasty images.
You are basically trading grain for latitude and visa versa when moving away from 800. To decide, the director should view some test footage.

[Chris Wright]

A quick chip color chart recorded in front of the focus point will save you hundreds of post time hours.

[Chris Wright]

Try posting in expressions forum. Pretty simple since the person is stationary, the ground just needs to move the opposite distance of the leg pushing away.

A simple script where when the leg touches the ground, the ground position equals the ground plus foot distance

[Chris Wright]

Right click replace image sequence with footage, then controls layer has sliders. The comp is hd so you may need to resize as nessessary

[Chris Wright]

Here’s a template AE cs5.5

8107_silkmasterbluredgesaddtexturecolorgrainaecs5.5.aep.zip

[Chris Wright]

If you make an adjustment layer and add the effect
levels-individual controls clipping turned on and the 32bpc should clip to 16bit values
in export while still working in a 32 bpc workspace. I know screen works differently in 32 so try 16 export
with clip or preclip the 32 ae in photoshop before applying modes

[Chris Wright]

sorry for the typo, i meant to say thunderbolt 2 is much faster than thunderbolt 1.

-The disk cache is not used for RAM previews.
Standard preview (commonly called spacebar play) plays video in the active Composition, Layer, or Footage panel from the current time. Standard preview does not play audio.

Standard previews play at a speed as close to the speed of real time as possible. However, for complex compositions, the speed of the preview may be much less than real-time speed.

“After Effects does not cache frames that require little time to render. Frames remain uncompressed in the image cache.”
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/memory-storage.html#main-pars_heading_13

you also need to check your Maximum Disk Cache Size setting.
In After Effects CS6, the default disk cache size is set to 10% of the volume’s total size, which 250gb at 10% = 25gb
is the exact size limit you are experiencing.

and maybe you have secret-purge every x frames turned on!