[Chris Wright]

AE is assuming that the imported footage is already in the Project Working Space. It’s not. It’s gamma-encoded, so it looks too bright. You have to manually convert the gamma-encoded colors in the image to the linear Project Working Space with color profile converter.

I know a lot of people get confused about this, much less messing with monitors calibrated. Here’s an example aep from cs3, that is a full round trip loglin. I turned off the last 2 effects so you can see how to work in lin. Once you are done with the effects, apply the last 2 effects and render out. It’s already setup for linear d65 plus monitor calibrated for HD. You know its done right when you can turn on all the effects then off, and the viewer remains the same. Finally, output a cineon dpx full range. Good Luck, and read these sites.

ae cs3 example log-lin
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJE407XH
Log-Lin sites
https://www.fxguide.com/article336.html
https://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-315.html

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[Chris Wright]

Nattress is another one too.
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm

Magic Bullet Frames
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-frames/

Here’s the rundown with video examples of twixtor.
https://shop.vray.info/plug-ins/twixtor.html

Twixtor vs. timewarp comparo.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/936786

I think my AE timewarp 24p solution gives the best results. https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/968670

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[Chris Wright]

You can also try generate-cc lightsweep or a white solid layer set as mode: soft light, with generate ramp set to radial. Then for sharpening, add a new adjustment layer with blur and sharpen-Unsharp and/or use curves to increase contrast. Glow or bloom lights and darks might work too, depending on the look you want.

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[Chris Wright]

the only plugin I know that can do this is reelsmart motion blur set to a negative number -2. Then you can later do the effect blur and sharpen-unsharp for more detail.

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[Chris Wright]

I made an easy to use matte keyer. Simply select the matte adj controls composition and click on the adjustment layer.

Its effect controls inner/outer b/w mattes are scripted to
run an alpha/saturation channel on your footage that you can see in the output composition.

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[Chris Wright]

Here’s my AE cs3 procedural keyer for luma/sat.

use matte adj controls layer to create a procedural matte keyer using the inner/outer sliders

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=AA6X17LF

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[Chris Wright]

1. paste in the puppet position to each new pin

N = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”);
fromWorld(N.toWorld(N.position));

2. a) then just do a simple master parenting null.

2. b) or set null position with delay code
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html

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[Chris Wright]

You must have a really beefy system if you can capture 960fps!

Revision’s Reelsmart motion blur can add blur to any framerate. it’s used for animation and re-blurring green screen objects.

It’s possible that you’re just seeing repeated frames of no motion which would appear as stutter because there’s only so many discrete frames that the game engine clock uses. It’s also possible that the recorder isn’t accurate in its fps information versus actual targa dropped frames.

And finally the bug thing. In both Cs3 and Cs4 you can’t interpret image sequences or create any compositions larger than 99 fps. I know, because I use this averaging trick to smooth out motion from timewarp interpolating.

In a nutshell, use one of these 3 options.
1. live with 99fps frame blended then decimate to 60 or 30 fps
2. use avisynth to decimate
3. get reelsmart motion blur

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[Chris Wright]

1. set project to 32bpc
2. do not use any 8 bit light plugins
3. render out a Tiff trillions+
all fixed

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[Chris Wright]

there’s a couple of tricks you can do to speed up roto if you don’t have mocha…

1. use multiple keys to create mattes

2. Motion tracks garbage mattes
AE ENHANCERS :: View topic – Rototracking palette for AE 6.5 SAVE PEOPLE41 https://usuarios.lycos.es/thehardmenpath/scripts/RotAE.jsx

3. build your own procedural mattes

a) a tut
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/advanced_sky_replacement/
b) your own custom procedural mattes

add channel-shift channel to footage
take alpha from Red
take red from Full Off
take green from Full Off
take blue from Full Off

add channel-Alpha levels

duplicate that layer (set as above the first layer) and set the new layer’s shift channel alpha from red to saturation and set layer mode to stencil alpha.

mess with alpha levels-input black and input white levels from both layers to isolate colors by the specific combination of chroma and sat. then alpha matte it as a precomp.

This works extremely well and even fixes hard keying, skin problems, roto, etc.

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