Slammed every 4 frames
Arggg. I'm plagued with technical problems. There's an awesome color scheme that I cooked up that makes Tooth Fairy dreamy and nostalgic. I call it colorize-NormanRockwell. But it looked terrible when rendered so I gave it up a while back. Then I discovered that After Effects defaults to 8-bit color depth. So I tried again in 16-bit mode. Much better but still unacceptable. I tried again in 32-bit mode. Even better but I caught hints of something maybe not quite right.
So I brought in the big guns: Aaron. I may have mentioned that he's a genius but I don't think I've mentioned that he has super-human powers. He can SEE things.
He saw a few things, the most major of them being that there are clips that have what looks to him like an interlacing problem. I couldn't see it so we looked at it frame by frame. Sure enough, once every 4 frames, there's a frame that has lines where there shouldn't be. We backtracked to footage before the color scheme and it's still there so it wasn't the color processing. So what's causing it?!
Ug. This is the not-so-fun part of filmmaking. :-(
Susan Ee
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