AE Preview Looks Awful

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Stuie

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For the past several months I have been shooting small clips on a HVX200, using RayLight to bring them into AE CS2. In AE I use KeyLight for compositing because all the clips I shoot are on green screen. I gotta say, I just love the fact that KeyLight can save even some of the worst lighting shots I've made.

My problem is that all of a sudden, when looking at the clip in the Composition window, the clips look awful. They look like a low resolution shot, all pixelated. I know it's not from the video clips, as I've opened past projects (anything before tonight) and see the same thing.

Can anyone help me with suggestions, as I have only a few days to get about thirty clips done to a new background and it's impossible to do with the window looking so bad. Is my graphics card going kaput?

Stuie
 
You might want to check your preview settings at the bottom of the composition window - are you sure you're looking at a 'full' preview and not a 1/2 or 1/4 resolution preview?
 
Nope, I checked that earlier. Here is a screen shot of my problem. You can see by the settings that it is on "Full", yet the image is really pixelated. I used to up the manification to get a better mask on some of the more stubburn clips, but never with this loss of quality. I did it this time to better show off my problem.

Any other suggestions? Please, I'm at a loss.

Stuie
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Check your source file.
Check your Comp settings.
Check your scale parameter.
Check your timeline buttons like "continuously rasterize/collapse trnasformations"
Check your view menu?
Add another clip to your current comp and see if it's doing the same.

Good luck.
Add that other clip to it's own comp and see if it's doing the same.
 
Check your source file. Same as the hundreds of other clips I've used over the past few months. Besides, it affects the old clips as well, and these never had that problem before.

Check your Comp settings. Comp setting are posted below. What specifically am I checking here?

Check your scale parameter. In the past I've NEVER had this problem no matter what scale I viewed it at.

Check your timeline buttons like "continuously rasterize/collapse trnasformations" I have never touched these from the beginning.

Check your view menu? For what?

Add another clip to your current comp and see if it's doing the same. Yes, it's doing the same. Again, even clips that weren't doing it from before are doing it now.

Good luck.
Add that other clip to it's own comp and see if it's doing the same. Yes, ALL clips are doing it, old projects, new projects, old comps, new comps.

HELP!
CompShot.jpg

 
Once again, the zoom doesn't affect it like this. I have zoomed up to 400% in order to more carefully apply masks, and it looked better then than now at 100%. Please, doesn't anybody have a clue at what might be happening? I desperately need to get these projects done.

Stuie
 
Okay, How's this for a suggestion. I work on the PC. I take the MXF files into RayLight and make them into an AVI. Once I do my AE work, I then output to a Quicktime file. Since this started last night, any file I open (old and new) that was a converted AVI looks bad. The newly outputed QT files also look bad. The old QT files that I rendered out previously look great.

Could I be looking at a curupt codec associated with the Raylight conversion?

Let me know what you may think.

Stuie
 
After I thought about it and wrote the last response, I went to try out a few variables using RayLight. It turns out that I had the setting on RayLight set at half resolution. I turned it back to full, and bam, everything was back to normal. Man, I thought nothing but doom and gloom, thinking I might have reinstall something or another, but all it was was a simple setting that I had no idea how it got changed. Bottom line is I'm back in the saddle again, and I wish to thank everyone who tried to help out. I really appreciate the response. Here ia a comparison of what happened after adjustment, the half resolution on the left, the best on the right.
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you can check off make self contained avi in raylight and it will not have the embedded proxy. You had it set to low proxy and not the full res. raylight has a built in proxy system.
 
Arson said:
you can check off make self contained avi in raylight and it will not have the embedded proxy. You had it set to low proxy and not the full res. raylight has a built in proxy system.
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That's correct "Self-contained" will turn off the proxy when you make the AVI, however more important is the Blue/Green/Yellow setting when you render from AVIs or playback the AVI, and that's independent of whether it was made with a proxy or not. From the screen grab it looks like it was in Yellow.

Raylight has a frame marker feature which everyone should use. It puts a green, yellow or red border around the frame as a warning when you are not in high-quality mode.
 
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