[Chris Wright]

I just realized no one mentioned Frame Blending. Turn that on. It’s required by time remapping if you slow down or speed up by a huge ammount.

[Chris Wright]

trapcode particular with a precomped 3-D shape light layer will work too.

[Chris Wright]

Ok, let’s ignore the slight gamma loss from film to smaller codecs for now.

Ok, here’s what you do to calibrate AE for Film stocks. Effects->utility-> color profile converter. Set input to project working space because that is what the color space was encoded at. Then take what AE knows and set output to Fuji or Kodak. It will lighten the image according to the Fuji or Kodak stock you used.

For future digital cinema workflow, use the ProPhoto RGB color space, encoded with a linear gamma (1.0) using 32  bits. or Film stock Kodak 5218 for cineon files if you really care about quality.

Here’s a must read. pg. 10
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aftereffectscs3_color_mgmt.pdf

[Chris Wright]

uh 35mm, better read this cuz quicktime aint gonna have enough gamma information.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oconnell_pete/cineon.php

[Chris Wright]

This kind of dilemma is showing up more and more frequently these days, and it is almost always due to type of file imported into AE. If your files are any of the following:

• Native HDV
• Mpeg2
• Mp4
• H.264

You need to convert them into something else. The compression in these files results in many frames that contain incomplete picture information, interframe IBBP. AE wants complete picture information for each and every frame,intraframe. IIIIIIIII

What you convert them to depends on your platform (mac/win).

from:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/929330

[Chris Wright]

Some plugins will crash with -render multiple frames simultaneously. Some aren’t coded to work multithreaded. Disable if you crash a lot. Also, enabling disk cache with only 1 hard drive will actually make performance worse. And don’t try enabling Max RAM size% above 85% or computer will lock up.

[Chris Wright]

o ic.

Well. I only suggest RGB because it has a larger range and can do more saturated colors.

If 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.

[Chris Wright]

this is a lot of roto work, even for monet. With no key, background plate, color separation, luma diff, your stuck with brain vs brawn, or eyeballs falling out before hand cramps up.

[Chris Wright]

click limit data rate to..(bitrate calculator) less than 5GB
cinepack, indeo, and microsoft codecs that comes with windows are only sure bets. Not everyone who owns windows even has divx. There’s also a Windows DV AVI. That would be my first choice.

[Chris Wright]

dvd mpeg2 can theoretically go up to 9.8 mbps but I’d like to see a dvd player actually play that without skipping and not have smoke coming out. I use 8 alot and most movies never go above 7mbps.
PCM sound is less room for video than mp2. DTS Digital Surround is freakin huge. Do not do super v-cd’s or mpeg1. Variable bit rate is good if you are low on room. keep target rate high around 7 or 8.
rez at 720*480 with a really good dvd encoder. If you run out of 4.7gb room, buy a 8gb double density dvd-9 spec DVD-R, NOT +R, unless you want to elimate your disk working in a lot of older dvd players.
Good Luck!

DVD specs

Data transfer rate (data) 11.08Mbps (1x)
Data transfer rate (video/audio) 10.08Mbps (<1x)
Video resolution (max) 720×480/720×576 (480i/576i)
Video bit rate (max) 9.8Mbps
Video codecs MPEG-2
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Audio codecs:

Linear PCM
Dolby Digital
DTS Digital Surround