Roei Tzoref
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in support of what Tero was suggesting, here’s a tutorial about it:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/blog/how-to-track-a-screen-in-mocha/follow the basics in this site.
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I have seen this before and it was advised that it was a display issue. try this:
1. update your graphics card driver, if it’s updated – roll back one version.
2. try toggling on or off the “hardware acceleration” under preferences->display and see if that makes a difference.Roei Tzoref
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[Dave LaRonde] “After Effects can’t show you all of them, so it uses the layer order — you see the top layer in the composition.”
Yes it can. there is a layer order and it should be maintained. the preset he is using can change the perspective, but the layer order should be the same as in 2D. there is some sort of bug here. Op try this:
1. when you create your camera choose a 50 mm camera preset and see if that’s works
2. first set your layers to 3D then add a camera. no null . see if that works.if it’s still happening this way, try to create a new composition and copy the layers there and see. still no dice?, close Ae and upon launch reset your preferences: Reset After Effects Preferences
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I tried reproducing this problem with my system but couldn’t. created a psd file with numerous adjustment layers, imported to Ae 14.2 – it’s all fine. I am on a Windows 7 system.
please provide the exact steps to reproduce the bug, maybe try a new psd file with a few adjustment layers and see if that happens again or is this something in particular with your project file. if you can, share it with us so we may look.
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glad we got you sorted.
the switch from Premiere to Ae should work flawlessly unless we are onto some bug here.
when you were in premiere, did you create a sequence from the video? was it 60FPS or the other strange number? I am trying to figure out if was this a problem with the data stored in the file or something in the passing through from Premiere to Ae that messed up? my guess is this was a problem with the fps information data stored inside the file that was wrong.
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[Michael Jackman] “Having trouble with a large 19000×40 sized comp (for sports stadium), it won’t render in after effects. It ‘looks’ like it’s rendering, but the resulting QT mov file is black. What could be some of the problems here? How can I fix this?
“import the file you rendered back to Ae. does it look fine? if so, it is fine.
important note: check with the client what is the desired format. if it is quicktime, you have done your job.
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[Tom Clasman] “I re-imported the video into AE as you suggested, and it looks the same as it does in the editing project. This equates to what I call the ‘darker’ rendering above. That’s what I want it to look like.”
then that’s how it really looks. what most users will see is depended on their monitors and players. open QT and VLC and WM and you will see differences. there is no “right” but the way you see it in your editor. the question still remains: how viewers are going to see your piece? is it via player? or via web? both will show inconsistent results. if you make your video darker to support what you think is the predictable outcome (your friends computer), and another viewer will watch it through a player that see it darker like your computer, then this viewer will see a much too dark version… what I am saying is that there is no predictability measures you can take here because it’s something you can’t control.
having said that, if you are encoding to an mp4 format, try using HANDBRAKE to export your mp4. I have seen reports that it produces more satisfying results in color and contrast. https://handbrake.fr/
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from what I understand the colors in the editing system look o.k, and only in the player you are not sure, correct?
try this: import the footage back to premiere/ae, does it look o.k? if so – your video is fine and you can’t control other people’s players, including your own. Vlc will show one thing, QT will show another, Mediaplayer will show something else, youtube will show something depending on your browser and so on…so if the problem is in playback, you will never be able to match playback with different players, monitors, Os… your only way of knowing you are getting accurate color is to work with a calibrated professional monitor and even then, you will see the accurate result, but others will mostly see something slightly different. if you say your monitor is properly calibrated then what you see in Premiere/Ae is probably what you are supposed to see. if the problem is from within the editing/vfx software that’s one thing, but if the problem is from the playback that’s something else.
your playback medium is what matters so if you know you are playing it back in some playback system (say in an exhibition), you should test it there if you can and and see how it looks over there and adjust if you can. in digital cinema you produce a DCP so you can, among other things, make sure the colors will be accurately represented in their playback system. here’s a nice post about color differences in playback: https://forums.adobe.com/message/8691969#8691969
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warping a tracked footage can be a bit tricky in Ae. you can always stabilize the shot first, create your warp using displacement map or other distortion tools like puppet or mesh/bezier warp, then re-introduce the motion. other than that here’s a nice mocha tutorial about meshing with puppet: https://vimeo.com/136861723
in mocha pro in the insert module you also have a mesh warp tool: https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos/mocha-pro-insert-module/
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Right click on the footage in the project panel and choose interpret footage->main. St the frame rate to 60. Now track again and see.
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