[Oskar Ziemba]

Hello,

my 2 cents on this topic would be to open the Activity Monitor and watch the swap-value. I fiddled around until swap wasn’t used.Because at first rendering is ok and then the renderrate plummets, thats when the Swap goes up.

I have a new Mac Pro 12-core, 32 GB of Ram and i write to a Raid0 disk.
So for now my settings are as follows:

– 16 GB(!!) of Ram for other Applications
– 2 cores for other applications
– 6 cores at 2 GB usage

It gave me the quickest Results (roundabout 4-5 Hours) for rendering a 60 Minute 1920*1080 HD comp with keylight,lots of masks, color-management to a tiff-sequence.

i found the comment by Will Lockwood in the Adobe Forums extremely helpful: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/734343

hope it helps!
Oskar

[Oskar Ziemba]

“this is very useful in it self, but read somewhere that ALT+drag is suppose to duplicate keyframe, and was wondering if it is cs5 chage? or there is different key combination etc etc.”

Hello,

it is actually not specific for CS 5, i work with CS 4 and i have the same problem. Since i was looking into a solution, i found your article.

If i find any solution, i’ll let you know.

Bye Oskar

[Oskar Ziemba]

Hello Philippe,

i do it more or less the way you do. i experienced the same problems with masks. Thanx for your reply

@ chris: I checked the RGB Values and they are slightly off. give or take 5-10 from the original footage… so i think it has something to do with the spill suppression. as you said. but i left these untouched…

anyway, since it is only a few scenes i will just correct these.

Thanks for everything.
Oskar

[Oskar Ziemba]

Hello Chris,

thanks for your reply, right now i am on the move, so i can’t check the RGB Values, right now. But i suspected the same, thats why i played around with the despill bias. But it didn’t change anything. All the other supressors are off. I use the intermediate Setting because i didn’t want pixelation.
I didn’t play around with Replace Color.

My effects are:
– Keylight
– Simple Matte choker

Of course i turned the matte Choker off, but the problem remains.
The weird Thing is that once i copied the effect and once i created the effect from scratch… but the result remained the same.

I know there are workarounds like adjusting the Brightness, but i would like to find out what the real problem is.

Cheers Oskar

[Oskar Ziemba]

Hello Dave,

first of all thanks for replying.

Sorry, i didn’t think it would be necessary, since the Problem doesn’t exist in all scenes, just in one or two.

Anyway:
– Macbook Pro (early 2008), Mac OS 10.5.8, 2.6 GHz, 4 GB Ram
– After Effects CS 4 – Keylight 1.2
– Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
– I don’t use Open GL.

– AVID DNxHD Codec

As i said before, 99% of my key in the Project are Ok. I precompose Foreground and Background footage for each Cut/scene, so i can add as much layers for the foreground footage as i need to have a decent key. The problem appears only in one or two scenes of 60 minutes footage. It appears to be darker in the destination composition and in the precomposed composition.

So, i hope i improved my description.

Cheers Oskar

[Oskar Ziemba]

Sorry!

My fault was that i had Draft 3d turned on…

Oskar