[Dennis Reibensteel]

I know this is old, but FIY:

I always work in 8-bit mode. Just if I want to see something in best quality I briefly switch to 16.
I also do all my previews in 8-bit. Then in the end, the final export I render in 16-bit and full res.
It helps to make preset render settings, like: “Half Res / 8bit” and “Full Res 16bit”.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

I tried Sure Target as well some time ago. It’s a very nice plug-in, especially when you do these little typo film, which are supposed to look 3D (not THAT 3D).

I vote for AE aswell. Personally I don’t like the camera movement. A discreet smooth wiggle would’ve done the trick and looked more realistic. And I would use a little bit less motion blur. Unless it’s wanted.

Though, I like the fact that the “camera” sometimes goes out of focus. I used that in some motion graphic films, which were supposed to look amateur filmed.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

If you want no grain, shut off any thing that boosts or gains the overall brightness.
I wouldn’t recommend auto-aperture, but you have to be experienced to know when to use which aperture, so you don’t over- or underexpose the image (that’s where the grain comes from).
Are you shooting documentary or scenary?
If scenary, I’d say rent a control monitor to check the image before shooting or run some test in different light situation to see which aperture gets you the best result.
If there is a minimal grain left, you can degrain it a bit in After Effects with the degrainer from Sapphire.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

[Rafael Amador] “I would speed the picture up a 50%.
Then slow it dow a 50% WITHOUT FRAME BLENDING. “

Could work.
But then you have to apply the speed up first, then nest the sequence/clip in a new sequence (ALT+C) and apply the 50% slowmo.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

Sure,

got to Image –> Mode

There you can change it to several colorspaces.
I hope that was it.
Glad I could help.

Cheers, Dennis

[Dennis Reibensteel]

I don’t work so often with PP, but whenever I get a PSD oder Ai file (often from people working with print media) I get it in CMYK colourspace.
Neither PP nor AE will eat it. So go in “Photoshop –> Image” and change it to RGB.

That would be my suggestion.

Anyway, which way are you importing the TIFF.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

My experience is that After Effects does not take Quicktimes containing the Avid Meridian Codec (or any Avid Codec).
Also (though unlikely to be the factor here) check the colourspace.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

[John Knapich] “… and back up to dual layer blu-rays which hold about 50 gigs. They will last a lot longer than a drive.”

I wouldn’t count on that. Has it been tested, yet?
Blu-Rays are just a few years old. A tape is still the best backup.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

I tried it with the strobe in FCP and added a bit of motion blur (16 frames – blurriness 800).
Kinda looks like it, but I would say it’s the camera that gives this special blur. Looks like they just filmed it at a lower shutter speed.

[Dennis Reibensteel]

Whenever I had funny looking QT Exports, something that often helped was:
When exporting (always same as source, self-contained QT) check the box to compress every frame.
That makes things a lot safer, and I never had any problems with quality.
And I work almost exclusive in HD video and 35mm.