[Jp Pelc]

I’ve only skimmed through this massive thread but I can confirm that this is NOT just an issue with 10.10 Yosemite. I faced this problem with a machine at my former office, here were my specs:

iMac 27″ Late 2012
Mac OSX 10.8.5
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB

I didn’t even bother to put the Adobe version number because I am certain it was not an Adobe issue, it would happen randomly often while just using a web browser or finder.

[Jp Pelc]

Couple ways.
1) You can add the Mr. Mercury effect to an adjustment layer and key frame the opacity of the adjustment layer from 100% to 0% when you want to turn it off. If you have other layers underneath that you don’t want the Mercury effect applied to, you could pre-compose the adjustment layer with the layer you actually want effected. Then you could create a null in your master comp to control the opacity of the adjustment layer in your precomp, that way you don’t have to go back and forth between comps to adjust timing.

2) You could simply split the layer where you want the effect to turn off, then disable the effect on the “off layer” then create another split when you want it back on and re-enable the effect. So on and so forth. (Cmd/ctrl+Shift+D to split a layer). The problem with this is you could end up with a lot of layers and unnecessarily complicated timeline. Plus if you want to shift a parameter in the Mercury effect, you will have to copy the effect and paste it to all the “on” layers, or shift them all individually.

[Jp Pelc]

THANK YOU! We have software that needs uncompressed AVI’s for an LED ribbon board and previously we had to transfer the files to an old machine to get them to work. This works and will save us a ton of time

[Jp Pelc]

Under the “Main Options” tab change “Format” from Quicktime to H.264.

As far as a color shift when converting to H.264, are you viewing the video in quicktime? You are probably experiencing the dreadful H.264 Quicktime gamma shift. Google it and you will see many people have encountered this, it basically comes down to Quicktime handling gamma in a very poor way, you should use VLC media player to check outputs.

[Jp Pelc]

If you could post some samples that would be of great help. Most likely you probably need to execute the noise trick as mentioned above. A little bit of noise on gradients should help reduce banding

[Jp Pelc]

What version of AE are you using? What Operating System are you using?

Most likely it is because your H.264 level is not high enough. In the render queue, click on Output Module, then under video output click “Format Options…” then change “Profile” to high and “Level” to 5.1

Although I would recommend continuing what you are currently doing. In my experience AE doesn’t encode H.264 well at all, so you are much better rendering out your comp as lossless then converting to a deliverable format with other software

[Jp Pelc]

No problem. At the bottom of the project window of AE you will see where it reads “8 bpc” or it may be 16 or 32. Click on that and a menu will pop up. Under color settings change working space from “none” to Adobe to just about anything else, although I would recommend HDTV (Rec. 709) or Adobe RGB or Apple RGB. Either way once you change that there is a box right underneath that should become enabled and it reads “Linearize Working Space.” Check it and then hit ok.

I don’t know how to change the color space in Maya as I have never used it, but a search for “change color space in Maya” should yield good results.

The video is a little long-winded but this page is a good way to start to understand what linear color space even means:

https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/tutorials/what-is-linear-workflow-and-how-can-it-help-your-renders-look-better/

[Jp Pelc]

Yeah I would try changing the workspace in AE to linear and see if that helps. Otherwise change the color space in Maya and re export

[Jp Pelc]

I would add a wiggle expression to the hue setting in an HSL effect, not a fill.

[Jp Pelc]

In order to more successfully fake a “footage” look, you will need to take the photo into Photoshop and depending on the contents of your image you will need to put certain elements on separate layers, then clone stamp background layers to extend them. Then you can take the separate layers into After Effects, separate them in Z-space, and your camera shake will look a bit more realistic. This should give you some help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfxvVDtPgyk

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