Cory Petkovsek
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You can pass the footage through avisynth and use fft3d and/or grapesmoother and/or a variety of other noise reduction algorithms.
However if this is for an employed position, you’ll quickly blow through $99 of employee time by learning how to use avisynth and plugins if you don’t already know how to use it. If you do, it’s a great tool for a variety of other aspects of post-production work. So if this isn’t an employed position, it may be worth your time to learn about it.
I’d still start with the built in AE tools that Dave mentioned.
Cory
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Michael>> I’m kinda green to motion graphics.
What I’d really like to know is how you got the job then??
Cory
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Ok. Well given that my options are to wait patiently for the update, I suppose I’ll pick that option!
Thanks Todd.
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Todd, this update was from May 2010. I’m talking about the newer color science released by Red in RedCine-X in November. I don’t know when it made it into the SDK. The new color science provides Redcolor2 and Redgamma2.
Redcolor2 provides a very different result than using AE with redcolor and selecting version 2; that is not redcolor2.
Any news on this update?
Thanks!
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Well pass the client to me then! 🙂 I’m quite comfortable with red footage on a slower system then what you have.
Cory
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It’s probably your pixel aspect ratio.
It looks mostly the same in my media player vs after effects with the exception that this is DVD footage with a .9 pixel aspect ratio. If you drag it into a comp and look at it on your square par monitor, it will look crappy and blocky.
Hit the pixel aspect ratio correction button which will horizontally shrink the image, but convert it to square pixels, or work with the footage in a square pixel comp.
Also, you need a better deinterlacer than AE’s default. Red Giant’s Frames cleans up some of the edges better than either of the native blended or interpolate deinterlace modes.
I see no reason to convert it to other codec. Unless it’s lossless you’ll just lose more quality.
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Make the flipped version of the signs be an alpha channel. Have the face under the other comps so it shows through them.
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I’m grading a short film edited in vegas and graded in AE. CS5 works fine with r3ds; although Adobe has not yet integrated the latest color science from Red. Todd, any idea when that will happen? Otherwise, it works fine. I’m working on a core2duo laptop with 4gb of memory on win7/64.
I’ve had issues with CS4 and red files. You’ll need to download the red plugin from Red’s website (although perhaps the AE update Todd mentions includes this now).
I would accept the job and spend some of your rather large offering of money on a cs5 upgrade.
There’s no reason for the job to end up badly unless you don’t have the time to work through the technical issues. As long as you have a reasonable time frame, learning a red post production workflow isn’t that difficult.
Cory
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This is sound design, which isn’t really after effects’ thing. You can use a bunch of sound programs, which ever will give you reasonable control over EQ and high and low pass filters and good downsampling. I use sound forge. I’ve used audacity in the past.
To start with downsample the audio to 11khz mono (without changing pitch). Then tweak the EQ to filter out below 240 Hz and above 3.2 kHz I believe. Tweak the EQ from there to suit.
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Redcolor is really too saturated. Redcolor2 is much better, although it is not available in AE yet.
You’re most accurate bet is to load the files in the latest beta of redcine-x (356e) and export openexr or dpx using redcolor2 and either redgamma2 or more likely for linear/vfx work, redlogfilm.
You can work with r3ds directly in AE at the cost of minor color inaccuracy. Load them in and check “preserve rgb” to turn off color management. AE does not color manage red footage well yet. Then pick the color space with the most accurate colors (I use redspace until redcolor2 is available), and the gamma curve desired; I use redlog and apply the curve myself.
Also, reduser.net is a better forum for red workflows; lots of dps and colorists there, more compositors and motion graphics artists here. CC also has a red forum, although I haven’t spent much time there.
Cory
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