[Chris Wright]

Mac OS X does not use a preallocated swap partition for virtual memory. Instead, it uses all of the available space on the machine’s boot partition. So,

1. is your boot hard drive full?
2. are you running 30 widgets?
3. edit – purge all before rendering plus secret purge every 1 frame and disk cache 15000 mb tweak

[Chris Wright]

If you can’t afford a Davinci, here’s some additional color correction plugins…

1. Digital Film Tools’ Composite Suite Color Corrector.
https://www.digitalfilmtools.com/cs/cscc.htm

2. Three-Way Color Corrector preset
https://generalspecialist.com/2006/09/three-way-color-corrector-for-after.asp

3. Boris Continuum Complete
https://www.borisfx.com/after_effects/bccae/

4. Rebel cc expression driven color corrector
https://prolost.com/blog/2006/10/22/rebel-cc.html

5. film color emulating the nuances of chemical processes AE preset
https://www.technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/1_2_Products.html

[Chris Wright]

I use to have this problem too, and after a while determined how to fix it.
I actually leave the mem settings alone and simply do the following:

1. Max disk cache size 15000 mb
2. Secret purge every 1 frame
3. Set Window’s Virtual Memory to 8000 initial and max

I can now do extremely huge files really really fast with no crashes or image buffer errors.

[Chris Wright]

I use to have this problem too, and after a while determined how to fix it.
I actually leave the mem settings alone and simply do the following:

1. Max disk cache size 15000 mb
2. Secret purge every 1 frame
3. Set Window’s Virtual Memory to 8000 initial and max

I can now do extremely huge files really really fast with no crashes or image buffer errors.

https://www.technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Chris Wright]

There are a lot, and I mean a lot!; of people who use old legacy codecs and inavertently burn in the wrong gamma flag and wreck exports and imports.

Sometimes it’s a codec bug, sometime its AE’s gamma.xml setup incorrectly. And a lot of Ycbcr files need to be interpreted with color management or they look too dark.

Quicktime can write gamma flags in too. Going from program to program only multiplies the problem, so the first step is to see if AE can render out and import back in looking exactly the same. Make sense?

[Chris Wright]

Which part are you unclear about? There is an icon in start-control panel called Adobe Gamma. It has an automatic wizard or manual setup for determining true rgb and gamma. When you load or save an icm file in Adobe Gamma program, it applies the color management immediately. Then when AE has SDTV or HDTV in project settings and simulate output, the colors look exactly like they do when you watch them on a dvd player.

[Chris Wright]

Before I bought hardware calibrators, I used this free method…the DVD’s came out perfect.

use photoshops’ Adobe gamma in control panel, adjust each red, green, blue, and save the icm file at gamma 1.8(mac) or 2.2(win) gamma, then setup AE with color management.

you need to give your project’s Working Space a color profile in order to use a color managed workflow (this includes simulated outputs). You can do this in Project Settings (cmd-opt-shift-k on Mac, ctrl-alt-shift-k on PC).

Each file has an interpret color management plus AE has blend color, legacy colors, etc. all these plus you need the exact same codec versions on multiple computers.

plus how you are viewing them back out. Quicktime player preferences could be different too. Use your scopes rather. Do a full render-loop, export/import file, with no color changes, there should be no change in gamma. That way tests for a correct color management setup.

[Chris Wright]

If you have posterization(where you see hard transitions of color saturation), smart blur set at (radius 100, threshold 15), works really well and doesn’t visually soften the image.

[Chris Wright]

I made a basic bleach bypass preset like Saving Private Ryan in cs3

1. desaturated
2. contrast
3. difussion
4. bleach bypass silver retention
5. 2 strip
6. grain
7. no blue sky

if you need more dirt, just turn up the brown multiplier effect under temp. control

ae cs3 project aep download
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y2UMTC87

[Chris Wright]

you need to watch the mocha tutorials. tv’s look real because they keep the reflections of the walls. as for focal length, its not a big deal, mocha can automatically calculate the pinch amount. color correct the frame by taking a fake key and using its color match. the frame can be made using maltanonn’s extruder and texturized effect. match grain and flip the remote!