[Chris Wright]

this post will help you get started.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/953248

And I can tell you this. My friend bought a $5,000 50′ HD LCD and used $15,000 equipment 2 hours to calibrate every single pixel so that Planet Earth Blueray looks fantastic. And it does, but some tv commercials look super orange and sickly looking. Guess what? The better you calibrate, the worse things can look.

[Chris Wright]

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/energy/

[Chris Wright]

just modify this simple script so that the next sequential layer gets moved 5 pixels up or something. ask for a freebie in the expressions forum.

simple script that distributes layers in 3D space within set ranges. (you can set the ranges by editing the script)

https://aescripts.com/3d-layer-distributor/#more-17

with a dash of Fade opacity of a 3D layer based on distance from camera

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS45F04775-D646-4b72-9FDF-E8A46AA1475Fa.html

now that’s a good accordion cake.

[Chris Wright]

since your gonna use animation, which is a relatively older codec, remember to set project settings match legacy quicktime gamma so you don’t write a 2.2 gamma flag in the animation and it gets too bright on renders and playback.

[Chris Wright]

to remove grain go to effect- noise and grain-remove grain,
fiddle with the settings until they are satifactory, and instant hd can tweak sharpens, antialias enhancements that AE can’t do alone, even thought its only a resizer. Fuzzy’s opposite is sharpen. If anyone else has any ideas how to fix fuzzy footage. Although I have found a weird way using reelsmart motion blur at -2(negative 2). It re-creates in an intelligent way that looks like crosshatching.

[Chris Wright]

I don’t think it was the ND filter so much as the f stop. There’s a diffraction error that can occur at maximum iris closure that actaully reduces quality from a pinhole effect. That’s why movies are shot f/5.6 and have a shallow depth of field. That’s where the style came from!

Did it make everything look fuzzy? You make it sound like only parts of it look bad. You can try sharpen, antialias with a resizer instant hd, enhance color contrast, or just go all out for fill effects and shadows. If they want crispy clean, its a reshoot.

p.s. if you want, you could try dragging footage into my AE project and see if you like the color enhancement.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/954145

[Chris Wright]

here’s another good article about quicktime gamma fixes if u use quicktime a lot.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/954353

[Chris Wright]

use the separate adobe media encoder and edit export settings -“encode alpha channel”. bam! AE now has RGB+alpha.

[Chris Wright]

Did you render premultiplied before and are just now testing straight alpha=(color – straight unmatted)?

[Chris Wright]

If you are exporting using the Render Queue in After Effects go to the Output Module, click on it and in the Vidoe Output under color choose Straight (Unmatted) instead of Premultiplied (Matted) and try it again.