Just to update. We have one group that did brilliantly. I will put that up here once I have checked to see if it doesn’t prevent us from entering any student competitions ;)
Just a huge thank you to Eric Mootz as well. It was him helping our students with his plugins that allowed their awesome to shine. Kind regards Angus From: Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday 14 November 2013 at 6:38 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: AE Help request Hi all Thanks for the help. In the end we got by with a combo of the Avid free Codec and Mpeg Stream clip between the groups. Kind regards Angus ________________________________ From: olivier jeannel [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 14 November 2013 01:53 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: AE Help request MPEG_Streamclip encodes better than AE (imho) and it's free. Le 14/11/2013 04:05, Byron Nash a écrit : Yeah, I never do any compression out of AE. I always use AME, or Episode or something else. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Adam Seeley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Once you get salad involved there's bound to be trouble. You could try rendering the comp out using a high MoJpeg setting and then re-encode straight out of QT for an H264. I find QT will give a better compression than AE. Adam --------------------- http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21162305> https://vimeo.com/adamseeley<https://vimeo.com/album/2280465> ________________________________ From: Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 19:12 Subject: Re: AE Help request Hi Byron No scaling involved. In more testing I found that they have a vinaigrette type effect that might be the source of the problem. Kind regards Angus From: Byron Nash <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday 13 November 2013 at 9:01 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: AE Help request Are you trying to scale the render in the Output Module? If so, don't. I would suggest using one the of the presets in Adobe Media Encoder to start. If you need to scale the comp, be sure to use "Use Maximum Render Quality" and "Render at Maximum Depth". One of those switches uses a bicubic scaler which is better. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: And apologies for not changing the thread title Hi Guys Quick question. We are having a lot of issues in after effects (which I don’t know – I can get it to work in Nuke but I don’t have the time to redo all of their comps) where we are getting a lot of pixilation on the final AE render. Currently using H264 max quality, streaming off which has always worked well in the past. This is AE6. I have checked the image sequences and they are great. Anyone have a suggested codec / setting which is not prone to this. As this is a student render its at half HD i.e. 1280 x 720 not not the best of resolutions to begin with. Kind regards Angus From: Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday 13 November 2013 at 8:00 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry Hi Guys Quick question. We are having a lot of issues in after effects (which I don’t know – I can get it to work in Nuke but I don’t have the time to redo all of their comps) where we are getting a lot of pixilation on the final AE render. Currently using H264 max quality, streaming off which has always worked well in the past. This is AE6. I have checked the image sequences and they are great. Anyone have a suggested codec / setting which is not prone to this. As this is a student render its at half HD i.e. 1280 x 720 not not the best of resolutions to begin with. Kind regards Angus From: Chris Marshall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday 13 November 2013 at 7:35 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Freeze ICE tree to geometry Hi, Just following this thread up. Is there a way of freezing instanced ICE geometry, into a single poly object? I DON'T need it to be live, just want to bake it. Thought this might be doable without plugins. Thanks Chris On 4 November 2013 17:56, Jonny Grew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Cheers Andreas - I know about that one and know it works a treat but the studio I'm working at doesn't have it. Have heard about em_topolizer2 too and price wise I might be able to convince them to spend some money but ideally I was looking for something that could do it without having to go through a laborious process of trying to get money spent!! -- Jonny Grew Ltd www.Jonnygrew.com<http://www.jonnygrew.com/> http://vimeo.com/jonnygrew/showreel2013 07855 212722 Jonny Grew Limited is registered in England and Wales. Company number:07735521 VAT number: 122713057 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. 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Andreas On 11/4/2013 6:39 PM, Jonny Grew wrote: Following on from my thread about issues of importing and ICE Cache for my MB feather tools it's been recommended I start another thread to see if anyone can point out a script/tool to convert my instanced geometry (multiple instanced objects) to geometry. - Hopefully this remains live so I can point cache it out for the render scene for submitting to the farm. It seems that PolyMesh Duplicate only allows one instance.... Taking a look at guillaume's 'create poly mesh from instance shape'..... Any more recommendations or pointers out there?! Cheers Jonny -- ANDREAS BÖINGHOFF 3D Artist schönheitsfarm production GmbH & Co. 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