using COLORISATA in After Effects CS3
by Augie Ingratta
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Feb 20, 2008 at 9:13:47 pm
Hello:
I apply Colorista on a clip in Adobe After Effects; select the eyedropper tool for "white Balance"; click on an area where there is white in the clip...........when I release the mouse, the whole clip goes black.
Re: using COLORISATA in After Effects CS3 by Dave LaRonde on Feb 20, 2008 at 9:18:25 pm
If the video is any of the following: native HDV, H.264, mp4, or mpeg2... you could have problems. AE doesn't like ANY of those. Change that clip to something else and see what happens when you use Colorista in AE..
Re: using COLORISATA in After Effects CS3 by Dave LaRonde on Feb 21, 2008 at 5:11:14 pm
Just like Quicktime, AVI is simply a container for media. And as in Quicktime, you can have a variety of compression-decompression algorithms, or codecs.
So you still might have a codec with temporal, or interframe compression, which the codecs I named earlier all share. The bad thing about them is that they don't contain complete information about each and every frame, which AE REEEEALLY likes to have. So when you eyedroppered a color, there actually may not have been information there, and AE went nuts. At least that's my guess.
I did make one bad assumption so far: I thought you were on a Mac. I didn't know Colorista could run on Windows boxes. AVIs are common in windows, and rare on macs.
