Kevin Reiner
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Finally, an answer that works for me. One of my biggest headaches ever since they introduced shapes. How is this still a bug?
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Grading depends on what the footage looks like in the first place, but blow out the highlights, raise the blacks and adjust gamma to your liking. Looks like there is some chromatic aberration going on there as well, so try this https://www.plugineverything.com/qcav2
Also, maybe add gate weave or film overlay etc. There is no exact way to do this, but all the above might help you get there. Good luck.
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I fear you have a corrupt file. Do you have access to a more original source file. Hopefully still on camera. How long is the clip supposed to be and how big is the data?
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I’d use 3D text on a motion path derived from a 3D mask path. For text, just use periods with sets of your colors. Auto orientate towards camera. I’ve uploaded a quick example.
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That looks like a simple 3D object built within AE using Cinema 4D renderer. Make a cell phone shaped rectangle with rounded corners, extrude the path and then do the same to buttons. then add color. This one seems like they aren’t using lights to give that flat effect. For stuff like this, I work in normal 3D renderer with a flat piece to get the movement correct, and then. switch to 4D renderer to make the object and then past the movement to that new object. There are lots of tutorials out there about creating simple 3D objects in AE. Good luck.
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Try Smoother. It’s in the windows dropdown.
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Maybe temporarily add more contrast pre-camera solve. Try to really bring out those marks. Might have to precomp. Solve to get the data then turn off the high contrast effect. Worth a try.
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Might be easier to replace the entire plate. Redo the plate in photoshop and then use either AE’s corner pin motion tracking or Mocha tracking to replace. Might have to match lighting and shadows. I’ve had to do this in the past and found this method to work best for me. Good luck.
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To go even further, you could use Automator plus a Photoshop script to make an application or service. For Mac of course, but there is probably a way to make a watch folder somehow on PCs too. Here’s kind of what I’m talking about: https://www.howtogeek.com/363868/how-to-batch-resize-images-with-automator-on-mac/
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After Effects is not intended for compression – only recently in last 3 years or so has dynamic link allowed this to be a possibility. Not sure why you are getting an error. I would export out a master file in quicktime ProRes 422 HQ. Then bring that into Media Encoder and set to .h264. May seem redundant, but other than a workaround for your immediate problem, this also allows you export multiple tests to find the right bit rate or to export to multiple sizes or codecs if need be. I always make a “master” QT lossless file and then compress deliverables from that. That way its only 1 long render and then multiple short compressions. Anyway, see if going direct out of AE first works. If AE still errors when rendering to ProRes, then you have a problem with the comp itself. Good luck!