[Steve Drew]

Hi Luke – What are the dangers, if any, in changing the P-JPG capture quality from 25% to 50% or 75%. Obviously there’s a filesize hit. I can’t test this for myself as I don’t have a HD card yet, but have been wondering about using P-JPG for online.

Thanks in advance.

[Steve Drew]

Answer: C – for me

I also get paid for overtime, have total creative control in my work, and have never had a computer error.

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[Steve Drew]

– Workflow for 2K in AE
– Gamma shifts between RGB/YUV
– How to ‘dustbust’

[Steve Drew]

– Workflow for 2K in AE
– Gamma shifts between RGB/YUV
– How to ‘dustbust’

[Steve Drew]

If you’re on mac type (in the text field) “option+8” and it gives you a ‘

[Steve Drew]

If by any chance you’re using FCP – I can recommend the Retro_TV plugin by Digital Heaven ( https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk ) It’s a transition effect that has old ‘channel change’ and ‘on’ & ‘off’ settings, with & without picture roll etc. Even comes with sound effects! It’s $10 or $20 or something, and well worth it if it’s the effect you’re after.

[Steve Drew]

Hi Aidan,
I go back and forth between FCP and AE (6.5 and/or 7) everyday with no visual changes in colour. (Yes, we Aussies write it with a ‘u’!) 😉

What capture card are you using?

I render to Blackmagic’s 10bit YUV codec in ‘trillions’ of colours – good as gold.

I think at one point a while ago there was a problem with gamma shifts going into & out of AE6.5 & FCP, but it was sorted with an update – can’t remember if that was a FCP, QuickTime or AE update though. If you haven’t already, update everything you can.

If that still doesn’t solve the problem, search the archives (here in the AE forum, and the FCP one) for ‘Gamma Shifts’ and the like and you should come up with the solution (or work-around as the case may be).

Good luck.

[Steve Drew]

Thanks for the response Steve, I thought it would just be a display thing as all my renders look as they should.
You guys have a damn fine product on your hands and I look forward to the patch next week.

(hopefully it will sort out the EPS issues too!?)

Regards,
Steve

[Steve Drew]

I capture in 10bit, have a 10bit sequence, but render in 8bit YUV.
Why?
Because this problem has been around ever since FCP ‘supported’ 10bit.
The fact that it’s STILL a problem is frankly an embarrasment.
I never render in 10bit within 10bit sequences because of this.

The workarounds?
Render in 8bit – sure, that works, but you don’t get quality 10bit grading/FX.
Set your Motion Filtering quality to it’s worst setting (linear) – sure, that works, but if you have any digital moves, re-framing going on, looks like puss.
I’m not flaming here – just really disappointed with the lack of commitment by Apple to solving this.
I have reported the problem to them, as should you all, but it’s been what, 4 years now?

[Steve Drew]

Good luck – that’s how video does ‘lens flares’.

Save manually painting it out (which will take forever and be incredibly hard to get perfect) you’re stuck with it.