Chris Wright
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may i suggest straight alphas, (not premultiplied) so that the color values separate from the transparency values. This way there is no blending with a background color. Less chance of an ugly result from a character generator in lower third or something. but quicktime player won’t like it 🙂
Maybe this is why so many people are getting color problems, they aren’t interpreting straight alphas in AE imports. Engage opacity and watch the video blow up as the background plate shines through. weeee!
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i just thought that if you are using the light as a track matte then precompose the track and the object and in a new comp go to channel-> Remove Color Matting, that will fix the track matte halo. but if its just a regular light, well then, you have a 8 bit ugly 🙂
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like a silk diffuser I’m guessing. Interesting…
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just use a displacement map with a keyframed opacity. The best tutorial to learn how is the invisible cape tutorial. You will have no problem at all getting this project done very fast and easily.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Invisible_Cape.php
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from my experience, any mp3 can cause disaster. There’s hundreds of mp3 encoders with hundreds of codecs. There’s even the dreaded variable bitrate which can make everything lose syc. and even crash render farms.
If you installed a fresh version of windows, never installed any 3rd party codec, and imported a mp3 from windows media player you ripped yourself, it may have the slight chance of actually working. but then again, why tempt fate?
btw. to read what codecs video and audio secretly use, google and download a fourcc reader. Each codec has a 4 digit code hidden in their belly.
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aspect button doesn’t change anything really, only the interpretation, comp settings, and render make it go wide or not. button is for quality check because when wide view is on so that things look correctly, the image gets more pixelated. Sometimes you don’t want that for color correction etc.
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because you’re working with light, I thought this might be helpful.
Color Problems no more…
After Effects comes with a built in edge and halo remover for high-contrast, saturated colors. File->project settings, Linearize working space 32bpc. This works for image re-sampling, blending layers, motion blur, and anti-aliasing.
from post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/50/855722If your footage is 8-bpc, then keep working color space the same as the output color space, but I’d still recommend 32-bpc because working in 32-bpc color allows over-range colors.
The cool thing is, 32-bpc are not limited to the color boundaries of even high def footage. The over-range colors are simply a more accurate way to color correct even if you are going back to a smaller color range.
The most important thing is knowing where the final footage is going. If its for SDTV, color boundaries should be SD or you’ll have illegal chroma or luma and have to use plugins to subtly soften the extremes. There’s a HDTV (Rec. 709) for high def and a sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for the web, too.
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newbier would be type interpret footage and composition settings in AE’s help search box. They are very thorough.
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if you run windows, its a easy fix. microsoft has a free download to make your computer get amnesia and not know it ever installed certain programs. google this and install it from microsoft.
windows install cleanup
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interpret footage widescreen and comp settings widescreen and render widescreen and see widescreen