[Chris Wright]

render straight and AE interpret straight alpha not premultiplied

[Chris Wright]

Playback in FCP with 8bit uncompressed sent to a NTSC monitor in realtime requires a lot. Are you talking about the HDCAM preview or a realtime uncompressed FCP preview?

[Chris Wright]

make sure you have apple menu >system preferences >displays >colour and selecting the profile you want to use

and

AE view simulate output

then before you open AE,

customize the interpretation rules file. When you import a footage item, After Effects looks for a match in the interpretation rules file, and then determines interpretation settings for the footage item. You can override these settings after importing, using the Interpret Footage dialog box.

In most cases, the name of the interpretation rules file is interpretation rules.txt; however, some updates to After Effects install a new interpretation rules file with a name that indicates the updated version number, and the updated application uses this new file. If you have made changes to the old interpretation rules file, you may need to apply those changes to the new file, too.

Quit After Effects.
As a precaution, make a backup copy of the interpretation rules file. By default, this file is in the same location as the After Effects application.
Open the interpretation rules file in a text editor.
Modify the settings according to the instructions in the file.
Note: You must supply a four-character file-type code for each footage type or codec. If you don’t know the code for a file or codec in a project, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you select the file in the Project panel. The file-type code and codec code (if the file is compressed) appear in the last line of the file description at the top of the Project panel.
Save interpretation rules.txt in the same folder as the After Effects application.

why AE grey is..

Non-RGB footage items (e.g., CMYK, Y’CbCr, and camera raw images) cannot be assigned an input profile. Their native color space is displayed in the Interpret Footage dialog box. Conversion of non-RGB color values to RGB color values is handled automatically for each format.

[Chris Wright]

24p to 60i you had frame blending problems probably because that option was accidentaly turned on. Interpreting at 23.976p fps and in a same comp, simply rendering out 29.97 wwssw upper fields should have worked fine.

And dropping that into a 59.94fps does the exact same thing, a 3-2 pulldown! But if you drop a pullown 59.94 into a 29.97 you are turning pulldowns themselves into frames again! You get a freeze frame! Step through pgdown and see for yourself.

[Chris Wright]

https://www.digieffects.com/products/damage.html

[Chris Wright]

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/categories/enhancement/film-fix/

If film fix is half as good as the repaired pictures on their website, I see no reason to look farther. Perhaps you could tell us why you believe it not acceptable compared to rotoring frame by frame with professional matte artists in AE?

[Chris Wright]

they used Poser 3-D and interpolation software, and.. like 200 cameras. AE is not a true 3-D program. But there are $5 dollar matrix effects you can do like fake stop motion, rigs, wires from the pictures/cameras. google cheap matrix effects or something to that effect.

[Chris Wright]

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=L863CE35

It’s a 32bpc AE CS3 technicolor 3 strip project that has simple wheels that change the temperature of each rgb channel, brown multiplier effect for matching film skin tones, and tint fill project settings blend color using 1.0 gamma. The precomps can smart blur the saturation, they are disabled default.

I created it so that I could take existing dv footage and make it tone map to film. I’ve had a lot of fun making it.

[Chris Wright]

try turning off opengl or…

if channels are interpreted as straight when they are actually premultiplied, semitransparent areas retain some of the background color. If a color inaccuracy, such as a halo, appears along the semitransparent edges in a composition, try changing the interpretation method. or try channel Remove Color Matting effect.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7b90a.html

[Chris Wright]

Adobe says that After Effects CS3 still supports Power PC chips, but CS4 doesn’t.