Return-Path: Received: from atl4mhob10.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.48] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5088290 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:51:38 +0200 Received: from mail.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.71.203]) by atl4mhob10.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4U016a1005798 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 20:01:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 21321 invoked by uid 0); 30 May 2013 00:01:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.6?) (torno@sydefxink.com@76.169.86.67) by 0 with ESMTPA; 30 May 2013 00:01:06 -0000 Subject: Re: [AE] GIF Effect References: From: David Torno Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B329) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <443CAAA3-ACD5-4F58-9107-78C572968BEF@sydefxink.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:01:04 -0700 To: After Effects Mail List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Nice Brian, that actually did the trick. Spot on. Thanks! David Torno Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor http://www.ghosttownmedia.com O: 213.739.2290 C: 818.391.6060 --------------------- http://www.sydefxink.com http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com http://mactex.blogspot.com "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field On May 29, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Brian Maffitt wrote: > The first stop for me would be Colorama... set the input phase to "Hue" an= d the modify popup to "Hue", Add a few more color triangles around the edge b= y clicking (but not modifying) the color wheel, and then turn off "interpola= te palette". This will give you an excellent posterize effect (much better t= han the one called "Posterize").=20 >=20 > Add some noise in a pre-comp (so Colorama picks it up) to simulate dither,= and adjust the scale accordingly, and it should be a dead ringer for a post= erized, dithered GIF. >=20 > Brian >=20 >> Yes, but the prerender layers and/or batch processing a series of frames w= e were trying to avoid for project simplicity. For example, the JPG damage p= lugin gives a really nice jpg compression feel without pre-rendering or batc= h processing image sequences. Having a plugin that creates the look makes fo= r a faster workflow and it allows for easier blending of other elements we a= re combining in the same piece that are not effected by the same look. >>=20 >> It's not a loss if this type of plugin doesn't exist, we just like to kee= p our pipelines as tight as possible when creating these setups. We like bui= lding templates versus processes. It works better for our system. >>=20 >>=20 >> David Torno >> Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor >> http://www.ghosttownmedia.com >> O: 213.739.2290 >> C: 818.391.6060 >> --------------------- >> http://www.sydefxink.com >> http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com >> http://mactex.blogspot.com >>=20 >> "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" >> -Charles Field >>=20 >> On May 29, 2013, at 3:03 PM, "scott.aelist" wrot= e: >>=20 >>> Could you simply render at 256 colors in your render settings? >>=20 >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to >=20 >=20 > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to >=20