[Simon Matthews]

I’m trying to share the link to my website and there should be an image that appears when you copy and paste the link, but it doesn’t appear. I have a feeling it is because my website is a free one and only has a subdomain and not a proper domain, because I went into Facebook Debugger today and it says that the URL is not an accepted one.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi, it turns out that his footage was meant to be as dark as it was, and to my surprise he is saying that the edited file I sent him in Quicktime Animation is too light. The problem is, on my computer, the brightness of the original footage and the edited footage look identical when viewed in Media Player Classic or on the Premiere timeline, and even odder, the original footage actually looks lighter than the edited footage when viewed in VLC player, so the exact opposite of what he is seeing!

This led to a lot of screen captures being sent back and fore between us yesterday, with him proving how much lighter the edited clip was in comparison to the original and me proving back that it didn’t look that way on my computer! I don’t think he was believing me to be honest because he said that he thinks I had adjusted the gamma on the entire clip, which I had not – the beginning of both original and edited clips should have looked identical, as there was nothing added to the beginning whatsoever.

Anyway haha! The good news is, I sent him a version in DNxHD (which I exported from Premiere) and it looks ok and he is happy with it. He says that this is the codec he wishes to use for the rest of the project. Phew! Wish I’d sent him this file now instead of going for the Quicktime Animation first. All’s well that ends well, as they say!

Many thanks for all your help,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Thanks, I never realized I could’ve just dragged the point at the upper right.

I’m trying to increase the blueness of the parallel lines in the flare. Colour Balance may work as well. Not sure which one would be best? I had to click on Preserve Luminosity for Colour Balance to have any effect.

Yes, switching to 16 bpc did solve the problem. So far I haven’t had any other adverse effects, though I notice some effects have an exclamation mark because they are meant to be used in 8 bpc.

Thanks again.

[Simon Matthews]

PS. Thanks for pointing out that I was working in 32 bits per channel, I wouldn’t have worked it out otherwise 🙂

[Simon Matthews]

I’ve changed to 16 bits per channel now and that seems to have done the trick 🙂

[Simon Matthews]

Hey, thanks for that info about Dynamic Links! So when I finish working on an After Effects project, instead of rendering it out I can just create a link to Premiere and drag the composition in as though it were just another clip. That’s cool, I will definitely use that!

Ahhhhh! You may have stumbled upon a problem that I had no idea existed! You mentioned something about the client’s footage being darker than expected. Well, I haven’t had it confirmed yet, but when I first viewed the original footage that was sent to me to work on, my first thought was that it was a little dark. Is this what you mean? And if so, how do I rectify this issue (in After Effects first and then also in Premiere)?

PS. I made a mistake when I said the client used H.264. He actually used Apple Prores I believe.

Thanks.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi, I think I spoke to soon. The issue has returned, but this time it arose when I added a completely new curves affect to a layer and only used a single point. For some reason though, the issue still vanishes when I click the pencil, but when I create a dynamic link to Premiere the issue is still present, even when it is not present in After Effects, which tells me something is not right. Please see screenshots below:

Initial curves screenshot with issue:

After clicking pencil icon:

Screenshot of issue still present in Premiere, even when not present in After Effects:

Any ideas what could be causing this undesirable effect?

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Ok, thanks man 🙂

[Simon Matthews]

Thanks, I never noticed there were three points, there was only meant to be one but I must have inadvertently added them when adjusting. I’m getting old lol! The issue vanished when I clicked on the pencil icon to the right of the graph – I have no idea what the pencil icon is for, I just clicked on it to see what would happen and the issue corrected itself. If the issue comes back in future I’ll know now to check how many point I have!

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Ah I think I may have made a mistake with the details regarding the original file I received from the client. I think the format he used was Quicktime Apple Pro Res.