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Ed Hecht
April 28, 2020 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Removing Specks from (Lit) Headlights

LOl. Still scratching my head over the “showroom” vehicle that was provided. 🙂
Ed Hecht
April 28, 2020 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Removing Specks from (Lit) Headlights

This was actually a great compromise, Darby. Thanks! Definitely works but with better detail retention than using Median (which is what ended up being approved, unbelievably). I think I will resubmit with this suggestion. Thanks again!
Ed
Ed Hecht
April 28, 2020 at 8:00 pm in reply to: Removing Specks from (Lit) Headlights

Thanks, Ross. Though (much to my surprise) my boss allowed me to use the good old Median (Legacy) effect to do the job, I am definitely curious to see what Silhouette can do. I plan to play with it today. Thanks for the tutorial links!
Ed Hecht
April 22, 2020 at 12:51 am in reply to: The Photoshop Library operation failed because the selected area is empty

Just ran into this one myself. I can confirm that switching to the Legacy version of Median did the trick for me as well. Such a great community here!
Ed Hecht
April 18, 2020 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Removing Specks from (Lit) Headlights

Thanks, Graham. I appreciate you posting that link. Alas, this shot is much too complex for Content-Aware Fill. I have posted it here:
https://youtu.be/i_bXcltkUY0
There are likely hundreds of these small specks that need to be cleaned up. I am taking a shot at it with Mocha Pro, thought not sure what I can do really do with it. I was wondering if any experience with Boris Silhouette Paint for such tasks?
Ed Hecht
January 31, 2020 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Basic PI Functionality Questions

I figured as much. Thanks, Alan. Looks like I’ll need to resort to some sort of combo of PI and Particular for now, despite the emitters of the former being vastly superior to the latter.
I’ve been a PI user since about 2005. Thanks for all your years of work and dedication (and support!!!) for this great application. You are a true standout in the VFX world.
Ed Hecht
January 30, 2020 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Basic PI Functionality Questions

I am using PI inside BCC 2020, btw.
Ed Hecht
October 27, 2017 at 7:18 pm in reply to: Recommendations for Intermediate File Format/Codec for Adobe (PC)

Scratch that last question. I just figured out that exporting to either DNxHR LB (in this case 4k 23.96, .mxf) or Quicktime DNxHR LB gets me there at a very moderate 1.5x increase in file size at (still) a higher bitrate (~145Mbps) than the original mp4 file (100 Mbps). Thanks so much to everyone here who chimed in. You helped me tremendously!
Ed
Ed Hecht
October 27, 2017 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Recommendations for Intermediate File Format/Codec for Adobe (PC)

Thanks, Greg and to everyone else here. I tried it and it works fine, as does Quicktime using the DNxHR codec. Just curious: Is it normal for the file sizes to balloon by so large a factor by going from mp4 to one of these formats? The two test encodes I did made a 101MB file into a 752 (.mov) and 754MB (.mxf) file, respectively.
Ed Hecht
October 26, 2017 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Recommendations for Intermediate File Format/Codec for Adobe (PC)

Related, here is the error code I get on my workstation in AME:

QuickTime Export Error
QuickTime for Windows cannot export H.264 on computers that have more than 16 CPU cores due to a problem in the Apple H.264 compressor component.
Export Error
Incompatible Video Codec found in the preset. Preset load failed.

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