[Philippe Lessard]

Hi Erin,

You say “…the letters were clean but the entire AE section was darker.”In AE in the project setting, in the file drop-down menu, you should check the “Match legacy quick time gamma adjustement” since the render of AE is not quick time, there a gamma difference, or you can use the export command which is the quick time exporter and everything should be ok.Remember when you use DVC/pro,is 8bit, if your source and/or comp setting are 10bit to 32bit you should see color bending in the gradient, so make your color correction in 8 bit.

Hope this help.

[Philippe Lessard]

If you have to track the motion, consider a planar tracker like mocha for after effects instead of a point tracker, because your camera shake is kinda shaky for a point tracker.You can shot a scene on a tripod in hd then reshot the same scene with your jerky movement, track this movement then add it to your tripod shot that already have the effect on it.That prevent every track/matching movement problem and add a realistic movement, because is actually a real movement to your camera, and if you shot in HD you’ll have a lot of space to to zoom in your SD and add some pan…

Hope this help

[Philippe Lessard]

Some effect does’nt work with mask, maybe they should but they don’t, I look at your screengrab and maybe is just because your mask are at none when they suppose to be at add or at substract.If is the mask combination with the effect that cause the problem, then precompose and apply the effect on the precomp.

Hope this help

[Philippe Lessard]

make a layer or a precomp with your number(or wathever) then map them on a cylinder with cc cylinder then rotate the cylinder in transform option in cc cylinder then add a motion blur.Should do the trick without to work of doing it with 3d layer.

[Philippe Lessard]

There a way to do (sort of) this but i didtn recommend it because you need to keep the same name for different asset.You’ll have to duplicate the project you want to switch is asset.First, regroup all of the asset you want to overwrite in the project in a folder(in and out AE), then do the same with the asset you want to use(it work even if the asset are in 3d comp as long as they are the same size…etc)you’ll probaly have to move the original folder outside(just to make them offline) otherwise AE will find it and use it, so just rename your folder then use the copy of the project you just make then reconnect the now offline asset with the asset you want in.One project for each new bunch of assets.If you have a project that have hundred of assets you want to change quickly, that the way.

[Philippe Lessard]

In AE, under project setting, there’s a check box named match after effects quicktime gamma adjustments, try it.You can try to export from file menu instead of add to render queue, this way you’r sure is quicktime render, not the AE render module.

Hope this help

[Philippe Lessard]

At my job, light wrap from key correct pro work with premultiplied footage, check the footage interpretation.If not working, try to duplicate then use as track matte then precompose then aplly light wrap!

[Philippe Lessard]

In after effect try export via file menu instead of add render queue. If you check the project setting in file menu, you should see color profil, if its on, you can match legacy after effect quick gamma adjustement…, maybe it the problem…But if the color profile is off, and your color are set, let it off.There few problems between after effect and quick render engine that why you should try to “export” via export because it use quicktime renderer.

Hope its help

[Philippe Lessard]

Effectivement; le monde est petit!

[Philippe Lessard]

Bonjour Christina,

Si tu veux tracker un detail dans ton video pour ensuite attacher les point d’ancrage de l’effet beam, tu dois utiliser le tracker de AE, si tu as CS4 je te conseil d’utiliser mocha qui vient avec CS4, il est beaucoup plus efficace, il y a des tutos sur internet.
Si ça peu t’aider.

Philippe Lessard
Post-prod Tech
Alt Productions
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