ddustin Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 Here is an image of the comparison between AE (Adobe After Effects) and images rendered out of AM (render farm). I'm trying to work out an issue. David Quote
jamagica Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 That's very strange..I dont' know anything about AE, but that's just plain weird Quote
John Bigboote Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 You've wandered into 'the grey zone' David... Sometimes it's obviously better to render an entire scene 'in-camera'... Sometimes it's obviously better to composite a scene in AE (or like) Sometimes nothing is obvious...the grey zone. I like the light I see on the moon from the particles. Did you render the particles with an alpha? Last I knew particles did not appear in alphas...maybe thats new. What I did back then-when particles didn't show in mattes...was to use a Photoshop action to generate an alpha channel from the particles own luminence. In Photoshop: Open a frame of the particles.Make a new action and start recording. Copy the entire image to clipboard (cntrl-A, cntrl-C) go to channels and make a new channel and paste(cntrl-V) the image. You'll notice it lost its color info as alphas are 256 grey. Adjust brighness contrast on alpha until you have the particles in various whites and greys surrounded by black. Done! Stop recording. Close image. File: Batch: specify that action and apply it to the folder of particle frames...now open trhem in AfterEffects...I think you'll like. Gotta run. Quote
ddustin Posted January 9, 2005 Author Posted January 9, 2005 John, Yes I rendered it with an alpha channel. The particles seem to show up in individual images. What I notice is the coloring is off in AE. Perhaps I can adjust it there. I'm re-rendering the flames and text right now with about twice the amount of particles. We'll see how that works out. Thanks, David Quote
ddustin Posted January 9, 2005 Author Posted January 9, 2005 Is there a chance it's an AE thing? Here's a screen shot using a viewer to look at the frames. The flames look full. David (I use TMPGenc to preview frames) Quote
jo b. Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 that's hard to tell by just looking at those images.. all i can tell you is that the black background is a preset in ae and is visible where your images have an alpha value. it's always better to use background images or colored layers to adust the background color than changing it in the komposition settings. the rest depeds on your individual layers, the tranfer modes, the transperency... Quote
ddustin Posted January 10, 2005 Author Posted January 10, 2005 I re-did it all in AM and am reasonably satisfied with the results. The aspect ratio needs to be tweaked and the water direction changes. I'll work on that. David dustin_moon0.mpg Quote
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