Spencer Tweed
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Hey Paul,
Okay, guess I am just nuts. I just saw that button – plain as day.
– Spencer
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To elaborate further, you are probably just looking through a custom view and so don’t see all of the 2D layers – just the 3D ones.
– Spencer
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sorry if this is already answered below – I haven’t looked through all of the posts yet.
I have freaked myself out because of this too – luckily it takes 2 seconds to fix. All you do is switch you AE viewer to “Active Camera” and presto! (if you hit escape it should toggle between that and whatever view you are looking through).
– Spencer
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Hey Walter,
Shame there doesn’t seem to be a better way yet. I have been doing the “cleanup in Phothoshop” method too, but in some cases it comes out too garbled.
For example every time I export a 32bpc file all layers are washed out. This is something that I never quite understood about linear light; I know that it is a gamma issue (Windows runs at a gamma of 2.2, but linear runs at 1.0) but I’m not honestly sure how this relates to After Effects – which doesn’t seem to have gamma settings (?). I like to render 3DS Max as 32bit and then when I import it into AE I choose “Preserve RGB” in the interpretation settings and everything seems to be happy.
– Spencer
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Statesman seems like a cool plugin – I’ll use it for when the Director is breathing down my neck. Currently I take screenshots and then toggle between them, but then when I have to edit one of them slightly I need to remake it all again which sometimes takes too long. -
Hey Paul,
Sorry for not getting back sooner; I’ve been really busy the last few days on a video. I didn’t see that Contact button on the site.
I was able to convert that project, but will potentially have to convert others in the near future. I would love to have your script for these.
I am actually in the middle of watching the video on AEScripts.com and haven’t finished it yet – I was waiting to contact you until I did (I have a sec now though and thought I’d put in a response).
Let me know where that button is and I’ll be sure to contact you.
– Spencer
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Awesome, thanks! I’ll check it out later today.
– Spencer
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Yeah, it took me a lot of time. The other facility is actually a branch of my organization – so it isn’t costing us anything for me to spend a few hours converting projects. In the long run it saves us a lot of trouble… So until AEScripts comes out with this thing to convert your project I’m just going to do it the hard way.
– Spencer
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No problem!
And you are right about the 1:1 thing.
– Spencer
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It is really just a codec thing. 1:1 is basically uncompressed, while DNxHD isn’t. One other area that this thing can come in is when the footage is imported into Avid. Avid can either link to footage (which is called AMA) – this is what After Effects does – or Avid can import and transcode footage. If you transcode the footage you would usually convert to MXF of the like. During this process you can get these artifacts – so make sure that you either get the source footage, or if this is impossible then make sure that at no point the footage gets compressed – in other words don’t just check your export settings, you also need to check your import.
Here is a frame of that project I was talking about, showing only the red channel:
– Spencer
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This isn’t a field problem, it is a compression problem. Whenever our editor exports files for me DNxHD it looks exactly like this (no matter the resolution). The last project that I keyed we shot 4:2:2 and it still had this issue. All I did to fix it was had the editor export 1:1 out of Avid and it vanished (woohoo!).
I realize that you probably don’t have an Avid bay in your home, but you could still look into the compression. You may not have to re-shoot this!
– Spencer