[Tim Kolb]

A couple of questions come to mind:

Are you working on a 32 bit float sequence in PPro?

If you are, the use of any effect that isn’t designated as 32 bit will clamp the entire sequence to 8 bit.

PPro doesn’t have the same color management as AE does, so for the moment, working in linear on a dynamic-linked comp may not supply the same results as rendering a clip from AE…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

…Jeff’s right on the data rate…it’s rather massive for a DVD file.

If it’s all exactly the same…(frame size and pixel aspect as well?), it may be a bug in the software.

I still suspect there may be a very nuanced differnce in there somewhere…

(Sorry for the double post…I didn’t see my initial response post, so I tried again.)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

CS4 would be better, but CS5 would be best.

Maybe there’s a kind CS5 owner near you who could help out?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Yeah…that’s why I want you to double check the interlace setting as the DVD preset is likely defaulting to interlace and you may not want that if you are using progressive source material.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Well…that’s why I’m saying you should try to backtrack and check the interlacing setting. The DVD settings likely default to interlaced.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

CBR or constant bitrate encoding doesn’t adjust the bitrate when high detail situations come up…or adjust it when there is a static shot and a highly reduced bitrate would be fine.

If you didn’t inadvertently get an interlace/progressive setting wrong in the CBR version, I’d guess the titles are highly detailed? …maybe animated somehow?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Ugh…

So no other clips in PPro are rendering blue? …just the AE renders?

What is the sequence preview format set for?

Actually…what are the sequence settings? Can I assume a run-of-the-mill 8 bit RGB render from AE?

The problem is intermittent?

Have you tried exporting a small bit including one of the problem clips? Does media Encoder also render it blue?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Hey Bob,

Do you have a CUDA display card on board? If so, what happens when you choose to run “software only”?

What is the nature of the content? Any other commonality than the blue render?

…and after you re-rendered in AE, did you re-import?

I have seen where the “replacement” file has some sort of a linking/permissions issue on some Macs…but I’m not a Mac OS expert, so I don’t possess the details.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Skin tones are usually the target of these types of actions. Boris Effects has a great effect called “Smooth Tone” which can be confined to specific values within the shot (like skin tones) and leave the rest alone…

I have no experience with Neat Video, so I don’t know how it is deployed.

It’s all a bit of “season to taste” really. What is a beautiful shot to one person is too contrasty to another. I find human faces with some signs of age to have much more interesting character than a “glamour shot” smooth almost ‘airbrushed’ look most of the time, but if Revlon is writing the check and the model has visible pores…it’s Smooth Tone to the rescue. “Real” has nothing to do with the deliverable for many projects…ever see the one with Halle Berry squinting as the VO talks about the harsh sun? (…and she’s obviously under a 12 by and is lit with nothing but super-soft creamy, wrapped light? She looks typically radiant, but it might have been a touch more convincing had they at least hit her with a hard HMI backlight.)

I also like Boris FX Smooth Tone for smoothing wrinkles in my collapsible green screen on location shots as I can confine the effect to the green/blue and it makes pulling the key easier as it’s very difficult to get a screen that’s been crunched in a ball to smooth out in a half hour on a shoot.

So…there are a few scenarios where you might want to “soften detail” on something as opposed to “suppress signal noise.”

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Do your sequence audio settings fit your sound card? How is the audio output specified for that sequence?

Or…do you have a video I/O card in the machine? Sometimes the audio output is targeted to some other destination than your sound card.

The source monitor will still send audio to the sound card, but the sequence sends it elsewhere based on your sequence settings.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,