Quintus Lubbe
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Hi there, Anthony
This is going to be a long render as it is quite a complex scene with many textures and lighting setups. Volumetric lighting (which there seems to be lot of in this scene) always takes much longer to render, so that’s something to keep in mind. However, volumetric lighting makes everything look so much better.
Also if you have motion blur switched on in the scene each frame can be rendered from 5 up to 64 times depending on the level of motion blur set in render settings. So take the time it takes to render one frame without motion blur and multiply that by the amount of motion blur set in the render tab.
To speed things up you could try setting your max anti-aliasing down to 2×2. Also check the shadow map resolution. You might be able to save some time there by pulling that down.
Something to keep in mind is that you would never be able to recreate a scene like this in after effects… ever.
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I have often found that turning off the “Frame Blending” option in the FCP slow motion window solves blurs and smears. Perhaps try that before whacking out the dollars.
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No filter was needed. I simply brought the material in, placed it in a new composition (dragging the clip onto the composition icon so that a composition is created matching the size of the material) and then rendered out to Pro Res 422 HQ. Somehow that seemed to solve all the issues. No filter needed!
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Hi there, Penny
I’ve just recently completed a project which had various sources, from DV to Beta to even, wait for it, DVD……. (which was awful). We also had huge interlacing issues. The final was to be shown on a 42″ flat screen in a museum and when I was completing the grade I used a standard broadcast monitor to grade. Everything seemed fine until I actually burnt the DVD and did playback on a HD flatscreen monitor. Disaster. Huge interlacing issues. Flickering, jumping, warping. We tried everything in FCP, shift fields filter, de-interlacing etc etc. Nothing worked. Our final solution was to run the entire Pro Res export through After Effects. Voila. No more stuttering or interlacing issues.
So, my long winded point is…. If you have material that you think may be an issue, test it first on the medium in which the final product will be shown. As a rule I usually work on a progressive timeline anyway even with DV material. If you’re experiencing issues with interlacing it may be worth it to run the clip through After Effects before you start editing rather than do the entire clip later.
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I discovered my error. In my mania to solve the problem I had turned on the “Dust” setting. As soon as I switched off “Dust” the problem disappeared. What is the dust setting for exactly?