[Shawn Marshall]

If anyone would care to test this out on their end, a 2.7MB zipped CS6 project file with the image and depth map can be found here:

https://www.marshall-arts.net/Lensblur/CameraBlurs%20folder.zip

Thanks.

Shawn

[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the reply. I have been working in color managed workspaces for six or seven years. It’s the addition of this Compensate function a while back which is a bit of a mystery. I’ll read up on it some more.

I just rely on my calibrated monitor to keep track of my colors. I have an NTSC monitor hooked up to an AJA box which I haven’t needed for years.

I’ve never been able to get a RAM preview to play real time when Compensate for Scene-referred Profiles is enabled. They play fine when it’s off, 3 fps or so when it’s on. This has happened over multiple versions of AE, over multiple workstations (2008, 2012 Mac Pros) and multiple operating systems (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion). Given this issue I’ll probably just leave the feature deactivated.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the replies. I downloaded the trial of FCP X, but the workflow eludes me; I’ll have to play with it a while. It would be nice if it fit my needs since it’s so much more attractively priced compared to Premiere Pro, for which I’d probably have to buy a full license ($800). The last version of Premiere we bought was 5.1. Not Premiere Pro CS 5.1, but Premiere 5.1, circa 1999. I’m guessing there’s no upgrade path from that. Not “Pro” enough, I suppose.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

My concern was that that animation clip looks fine in FCP 7, but I can’t stay on FCP 7 forever. Do I give FCPX a try, despite its well-discussed issues and new approach or do I go to Premiere Pro CS6, which would be closer to what I’m used to but apparently has its own issues, including an inability to display some ProRes 422 (HQ) content correctly.

Thanks.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Hi:

Thanks for the replies.

As I noted in my first post, the offending clips export fine. I’d just rather have everything looking clean throughout, and since I’m revisiting PPro after ten years I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing a setting or something.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the reply.

I’m not resizing the clip. That Quicktime, a 1280×720 3D animation compressed with the ProRes 422 (HQ) codec is being displayed in the Source Window at 100%, Full Quality. If I drop the clip onto the New Item icon to create a new sequence with the clip, I get the same aliasing in the Program Window.

However, if I take the original animation, run it through After Effects, recompress it with the Animation and ProRes 4444 codecs and bring those into PPro, those look clean. No aliasing.

So maybe it doesn’t like ProRes 422 (HQ)?

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Pierre:

It’s the basic RSMB, not the motion vectors version.

It doesn’t matter how the footage is tagged and what the color space of the project is. Banding becomes visible in the BG when RSMB is applied to this PNG sequence.

There’s no alpha involved. This weed trimmer is being rendered within a grey cyc environment in Cinema 4D. The banding, when RSMB is activated, is visible in the gradated pools of light in the grey BG.

I’ll send a short sample to tech support.

Thank you.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Pierre:

It’s the basic RSMB, not the motion vectors version.

It doesn’t matter how the footage is tagged and what the color space of the project is. Banding becomes visible in the BG when RSMB is applied to this PNG sequence.

There’s no alpha involved. This weed trimmer is being rendered within a grey cyc environment in Cinema 4D. The banding, when RSMB is activated, is visible in the gradated pools of light in the grey BG.

I’ll send a short sample to tech support.

Thank you.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the replies. For now I ended up adding some noise in the 3D render which mitigated some of the banding. Now I’m noticing that adding RSMB to my 3D render adds banding. The gradients look pretty clean as-is in AE, but when I add RSMB banding appears.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Shawn Marshall]

What I usually do in this situation is parent my video box layers in After Effects to the solid layers exported from C4D, then re-orient the AE video layers so they’re facing the way I want. Because I have to do this a lot I usually just export nulls instead of solids from C4D, figuring I’ll be parenting my AE layers to those nulls and adjusting the rotations as needed.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics