[David Green]

Nope, I don’t have any characters like that on my reels or bins…
However there is the occasional sound file with a pound symbol # in its title…

[David Green]

Hi Josh, thanks for your reply.

I tried what you suggested (I chose Make Offline, then selected “leave media files on the disk”). Then when I tried to reconnect the clips, under Offline files it doesn’t include the list of clips that I’m trying to reconnect. It just says Unspecified path.

When I try to point to the file directory, I get an error tone, and the window disappears…

Very odd….if you had any more ideas they would be much appreciated.

[David Green]

Great – incredible. Thank you.

I found that blending it as Darby explained above works great, however it affects all the layers below the grain layer. So I just matted the area I needed…

Thanks so much.

[David Green]

Many thanks. Very helpful.

Because I’m applying the filter to a freeze-framed image, I believe AE is freezing the noise as well. It doesn’t dance around like normal pixels would. Is there a way to apply the effect to a layer that’s been freeze-framed or time-remapped?

Thanks again!

[David Green]

Rafael,

Does the same apply if I’m working in a 23.98 timeline, from footage that originated as 24p?

David

[David Green]

Hello all,

PROBLEM SOLVED…

The sample clip that I was using for my shot comparisons was a clip that was in reverse motion. I had the “frame blending” button selected, which for some reason or another, resulted in a slight blur effect when comparing the original timeline footage to the output footage.

Many thanks for all of your suggestions, I’ll go ahead and use exports with make movie self contained for delivery to the FX artists.

Best,

David

[David Green]

Thanks for the answers everyone. I’m looking to deliver shots to effects artists, so unfortunately reference movies or XML’s won’t work (I can’t hand over all of the dailies, I need to hand over just the shots I need worked on).

Bret, The problem is experienced even before I make the trip to AE. I’m just exporting the shot, and re-importing it to make sure it looks the same as my footage. However, the problem is also experienced after making the trip to and from AE. Here are my settings.

My AE Comp settings are:
DVCPRO HD 720 23.98 Preset
960 x 720
HDV 1080/DVCPRO HD 720 (1.33) Pixel Aspect ratio
23.98 Frame rate
Full Resolution
In Project settings, Preserve QT legacy gamma is checked
Export using Animation codec…

Is there a setting somewhere that would degrade sequence outputs in FCP?

[David Green]

Hi Rafael & Bret.

Thanks for the speedy replies.

The stills I grabbed (sorry they’re not showing up) are frame grabs right from my timeline, captured through Apple’s screen grab command. They’re basically 100% crops, zoomed in to a specific part of the image.

I am exporting the media out of FCP, then re-importing it right back into FCP, putting it next to original footage, and comparing them one to one.

Very odd… Thanks for the advice. Is there another way I should be monitoring this?

[David Green]

Super cool! Many thanks for the great leads!

[David Green]

Many thanks! The fractal noise filter really looks like a good icy pattern.

I don’t have the Crystalize filter in my Generate pulldown…is this a special plugin?

Also, do you suggest applying a CC Sphere to the white solid, to make it look more like a spherical shape? Thanks again!