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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-05-01, 12:28:49 »

tried in every format possible, wouldn't post 1st if I wouldn't have had tried to make it work,

doing the material ID , color  key alpha route

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-26, 21:19:43 »

now that you have the pass in and crypto applied, try to do a selection,

to do multiple selections, shift click, for one select, just one click,

then you should see the alpha selection , in the view port ant selection number on the crypto plugin side

thanks much !

 

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-25, 23:32:22 »

"1. Render the image sequence with ''Automatic saving on render end'' in the Corona preferences. This will save an .CXR file for each frame."

I will try this, thanks much!!!

autosave interval (min) =3min or 5min ( this setting gets me confused, if I put 0, would it save regardless #of images kept on render end =1 ? )

# of images kept during render = 0
#of images kept on render end =1

should do the trick

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-25, 07:40:15 »

Hi Ben,

if you output a regular crypto pass, looks like its rendering correct, only when applying crypto mate in AE and trying to extract the channel, the layer (layers info ) to be extracted its not there, therefore the error.

if you have a couple minutes, follow this quick tutorial, and explains in detail how to get the passes working,

I tried trough the years, with all the other engines, and works fine, the look of corona gets you in trouble, as it looks good, but when it comes down to practical compositing you are stuck without crypto passes, obviously you remember when you hit the wall

am I making this change in system prefs for corona, and should output .cxr,

For the future, can we have a click for .cxr output,

Thanks!!

Eric

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-20, 04:34:19 »

Fixed in what way? The only known requested change at the moment is enabling "by material ID" as an option (which is not yet positioned on the roadmap), so if something else need fixing, do let us know!

Hi Tom, appreciate the fast reply,

I figured that cryptomatte was/is mainly focused/targeted towards cgi vfx heavy production environments, making work easier when masking/adjustments are needed out of the blue for a certain element and you are to far down the process, to render again the entire thing

https://academyofanimatedart.com/an-introduction-to-cryptomatte/

Im trying to understand why someone would  assume:

"They need cryptomatte, they can export one image at the time from VFB as .cxr and then convert it to .exr

If they are doing production animation, and they are thinking of using Corona to export cryptomatte as a pass, we gonna pretend we have no idea what they are talking about "

And when brought up, sounds like a blasphemy in the room, when everyone else is using it for this sole purpose, making compositing easier,

"Apart from saving time during compositing, the tool also comes with reader plugins that are freely available for major compositing packages including:
The Foundry Nuke
Black magic Fusion
V-Ray
Houdini
Blender Cycles
RenderMan
Redshift
Clarisse
Arnold
Flame
After Effects"

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-19, 21:11:03 »

we are in production running 3 tv opens  ,

as a general rule, most of tv opens , usually go for 30 seconds @ 24 frames per second =720 frames to be rendered,

the look and dev was done in SP and exported to c4d with corona, but this can be exported in any form or format, for any other engine,

crypto mate its a big chunk of consideration going forward, as this allows me to adjust on the fly any object in the scene, in terms of colour, adjustments levels etc,

it would be a little time consuming to save every frame to .cxr, convert it , save it to exr etc etc to get the cryptomatte pass out

in other render engines, you output an 32 bit crypto pass, as with any other pass , and extract from that in compositing

Corona outputs the colours pass for crypto , but when you try to extract the pass in AE you get this error (attached)

Thanks

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[C4D] I need help! / cryptomatte for AE

« on: 2023-04-19, 12:30:54 »

 saw the .cxr export method from VFB for a single image in photoshop, which dos not work if you have 720 frames project and multiple passes and compositing in After effects or other compositing software

Are the crypto matte passes fixed in corona 10 ?

Thanks!!