AutoDesk Smoke :: Can't Seem To Import DPX With Embedded Alpha
Oct 30, 2012Can't seem to import DPX with embedded alpha.. Am getting a checkerboard image.
Is this correct.. PS. Tried with matte container and without.
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AutoDesk Smoke :: Export QuickTime With Embedded Alpha
Aug 3, 2012I tried exporting a container, but that didn't work.... Is there any other way?
Smoke 2012 SAP2 SP4
and
Smoke 2013 SP2 (Smoke Classic Keyboard Shortcuts)
Mac Pro 4,1
OS X 10.6.7
12 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
14 TB RAID (Areca)
AutoDesk Smoke :: Dragging Embedded Alpha Image Into Action
Nov 28, 2012I got single clip in desktop and it got an alpha embedded. If i drag that clip into the cfx , the clip will be interpreted correctly where alpha will be recognized. The problem in action is when i drag into action schematic, the alpha is ignored Smoke should know if there's alpha embedded then by default it should use it. ANother problem is when in media list , i add new media then click the clip twice (to grab F and M from the same clip), the result : i got blank alpha. Again it should load the alpha while there's alpha embedded . I think , this should become the dafault behaviour to deal with alpha. Although loading this clip in cfx schematic will solve the problem, i think the action still need to be fixed.
Also it should be cool feature if i can drag the clip from library and drop it in media list , and it will replace the media of the selected item in media list.
AutoDesk Smoke :: Importing And Using Alpha Channels In Autodesk
Oct 2, 2012I am experimenting with Smoke 2013 pre-trial and I am having issues with importing images and video with alpha channels.
1. If I have a layered Photoshop file or png with an alpha channel (a still frame lower third), I see that I can import it as a multi layered clip, but what is the best way to have it in the sequence to show up properly?
2. If I have a QuickTime in animation format or Pro Res4444 format with an embedded alpha, how can I import that file to show and cut it on a top layer to animate above my video?
AutoDesk Smoke :: How To Repeat Both Fill And Alpha
Nov 26, 20121st issue: I deal with alot of still images. Mostly .png files with embedded alphas. When I import them sometimes they come in able to be put on the timeline and trimmed to any length. Other times Smoke thinks the still image is a clip and it has a set number frames. If I need to extend beyond that set number I have to freeze it. When I import, set the clip options to frames. That works - sometimes. I've tried different formats tga and tiff with no luck. I've also tried the repeat tool but that doesn't repeat the alpha. If I were to use the repeat tool for this, how do repeat both the fill and alpha?
Second Issue: When I put an image on the timeline that is larger or basically any resolution different than the timeline, Smoke automatically puts a resize on it. If I bypass the resize then (depending on the clip resolution) the clip becomes distorted. Is there a way to keep the clip's resolution independent from the timeline?
Third issue: What is Smokes preferred still image format? Today I had a jepg that was 500x350 (or something like that) and after a lot of trial and error I found that it was this relatively small image that was choking my system. After I deleted that file and tried a different file everything seemed to run fine. Is there a certain bit depth or color model etc that I should be using?
AutoDesk Smoke :: View Alpha Overlay On Top Of RGB
Mar 16, 2013Is there any visual tool in smoke so i can view the alpha/matte and rgb at the same time (by overlaying alpha on top of the rgb) ? I can't find a way to do it. Did i miss something ? or does this tool exist ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: How To Combine Alpha Of The Caption
Jul 5, 2012I'm running 2012 Advanced.
I have a caption strap as a matte and a fill. Then a matte to wipe the caption on to it.
Now say if I need three of these on the screen at one time and to be able to reposition them individually.
In batch/action I was trying to combine the alpha of the caption and the caption matte, using a matte source node and a blending mode on the top image, but it didn't seem to work. I thought multiply should have done the trick...
I think the thing I'm stuck on is getting the intersection of 2 mattes. So you only see where they are both white.
I did do it with 2 source mattes, kind of in a cascade... but it's a messy solution for such a simple thing.
I ended up combining them out of action using blend and comp node. But then if I needed to resize the strap and 2 mattes independently of the caption itself I ran into problems.
AutoDesk Smoke :: How To Enable Generate Alpha In CFX Clip
Aug 30, 2012I'm trying to create CFX clip with alpha so that i can place it over another clip in timeline. CFX clip is build from source and then i generated mask with gMask node and brought together with Blend&Comp node. I created CFX clip from Blend&Comp node. There is option in CFX clip settings Generate Alpha, but it is greyed out. Does some one know why is this so or how can i achieve same result with CXF output?
View 3 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: Can Publish Export Clips With Alpha Channels
Nov 24, 2013I haven't tested every single combination yet in the publish menus. To save me trying them all, is there any option that works to publish all the shots in a sequence together with alpha channel?
I have a sequence of CFXa clips with matte output connected in CFX, I duplicate the sequence and commit cfx... every clip has a matte container. So far, so good. Now I want to output the whole sequence as individual shots with alpha.
Tried the EDL option, changing file type to OpenEXR... no alpha. Tried EDL, changing output type to movie and then selecting ProRes 4444. Alpha was solid black.
Is it possible to get publish to create individual movie files for each shot at all? Everytime I try this it writes one continuous quicktime file even though I select a shot number token. Writing individual shots seems only to work with image sequences, is that the case?
AutoDesk Smoke :: Cannot Successfully Import Clips Via Gateway Import
Jan 21, 2012I can tell you cannot Gateway Import from a drive that is Read-Only. The clip seems to work, it just says pending render, of course when you import a large number of files it always says pending render. Unfortunately it never actually finishes pending render, and will list as failed in Backburner.
So you can for instance think you have relinked an entire timeline and start doing a fair amount of work on it, but you will then be unable to send this large timeline to your flame like you think.
There is no god damned reason it should allow you to gateway import something that you cannot actually gateway import. All it would need to do is check if the drive is read only before it does it and give you an error message IN THE APPLICATION. Rather than everything looking fine, but then making you go tease the meaning out of this from backburner:
smk001 1896942624 swBIOSubJobServer.C:298 01/21/12:18:14:05.450 1896942624 swBIOAdapter.C:403 01/21/12:18:14:06.504 Cannot process tasks 0... in /var/tmp/WireJob/SubJob0.
Read-only file system on processing S+W server..The fact that the color correct house had randomly given me an NTFS drive this time didn't occur to me for quite awhile, since the last two were both macOS.
AutoDesk Smoke :: EXR Look Different On Import
Nov 14, 2011I have RED footage which I exported as EXR. When I import them back in, they look exactly like the RED footage. But when I import the EXR in Fusion, export it back out, and then import that EXR into Smoke, it looks brighter, although I didn't change anything in Fusion. (when I compare the EXR from Smoke and the EXR from fusion in my finder on my desktop, they look exactly the same). So what is Smoke doing with the "foreign" exr on import?I was also playing with the LUT settings. I get a result which is close, but I need to be exact.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: How To Import XML
Jul 7, 2013I am having issues for a long time regarding importing XML into smoke 2013. Will try and explain you in breif.
First When we try an import XML into smoke it just doesnt do anything, in the message history box it comes up saying FOUND 0 SOURCES.
Nothing gets imported at all. No footage is imported, nothing is shown in timeline as well.
Second For a different project when the XML does get imported, the videos get imported but then again nothing is coming up in the timeline and in the message history box we get the following error.
XML Validation Failed.
Cannot process unliked media.
we have checked all the import options to make this work, including max up level and the rest but nothing is working.
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import EXR With Z Channel
Feb 28, 2012I'm not sure if the smoke on mac software handles exr with rgb and z pass, but using wiretap to import exr, I get this error. The file was 16bit FP with and without zipline compression
How to import exr with multiple passes to smoke on mac?
AutoDesk Smoke :: How To Import FBX Camera
Oct 19, 2012I tried to import a FBX camera from Mocha v3 and noticed that there is no FBX selection under the Object Tab in Action. Is that coming on the next Pre-Release?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: Import PSD Into CFX Schematic?
Nov 26, 2012i can import the .psd using mediahub or desktop import or in action bin, i can use 'import' node. But i want to spot importing psd file directly from cfx schematic using 'read file' node in I/O tab. I will get one single file . I believe this node is containing multiple information (channels/layers). How can i extract the layers from that node ? how can i make this node usable since i can't make any connection to other node. Like in Nuke , there's a node named 'shuffle' which can extract or pull out a selected channel/layers from a single node. How to do this in cfx schematic ?
Talking about 'shuffle' node in Nuke. Is there any node similar to that? so the node not only can pull/extract channels but also can 'shuffle' or re-pipe the channel . For example pipe chan Red to chan Green, or Alpha to Red etc. What is the best way to do this ? do i have to use CC module ? any similar node in cfx schematic level?
AutoDesk Smoke :: How To Import The Files In 25 Fps
Feb 1, 2013we normally used 1280 resolution clips with 25 fps..
i do settings with 1280 resolution but, when we import the raw footages in media hub its normally import on 50 fps... its really difficult to always check the fps ...we want always to import the files in 25 fps.
is it possible...?
AutoDesk Smoke :: How To Import An AAF From Avid MC6
Jun 26, 2013I'm trying to import an AAF from Avid MC6 into 2013 ext1. I get the message
"Smoke cannot import the AAF file because it is either incompatible or unreadable:
AAF: Error. Missing XML or AAF file.
I went back to 2012 SE2 Sp3 and the same AAF loads perfectly fine (albeit with inaccurate speed ramps). Am I missing something here, or is it broken?
AutoDesk Smoke :: Can't Import Graphic Files
Jun 21, 2012I've been unable to import ProRes 422 files son I have to work with the H264 native files, which suck. But now I tried to import a couple of PSDs and a TIFF and they don't appear in the media hub nor can I drag-and-drop'em to the media library.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: R3D Import Resolution Incorrect?
Aug 4, 2012I'm trying to import 4K-5K R3D files from an Epic into my 1920x1080 project. Oddly enough, Smac thinks the clips are 1280x675 resolution. Why and how can I get them in at 1080HD or even larger?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: XML Import From FCP - Unlinked Media
Aug 25, 2011I've been trying to import a XML from FCP (xml version 2), bun everytime I only get a timeline with unlinked media...
I placed the XML one directory above my media. But when I drag the XML into my library (having Store Local Copy turned on), I only get the "empty" timeline...
When I try to relink my media from the gateway, it's not relinking anything (it says, no video and audio found). Is there no way to import an XML without having to import the original media into my library? Also, no matter what kind of clip I'm importing, it always soft imports my clips, although store local copy is turned on...
Attached is a picture with the settings for my xml import (and on top the unlinked xml, which says SOFT, although, as you can see on the bottom of the screen store local copy is enabled).
Smoke 2012 SAP2 SP4
and
Smoke 2013 SP2 (Smoke Classic Keyboard Shortcuts)
Mac Pro 4,1
OS X 10.6.7
12 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
14 TB RAID (Areca)
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import Audio File
Apr 13, 2011I´ve a problem when import all types of audio file, the application crash...but is curios that if I export the file that crash the application (in Lost and found) to the desktop and try import this audio there aren´t problem..import ok...and if this audio is edited with a image and import with import media tool (audio and video) import ok.
Another question about import / export...when a tried export a quick time in the column of status of background tasks appear the message that my "host" does not seem to exist, and not process the quicktime move.
AutoDesk Smoke :: AAF Import From Adobe Premiere
Jun 13, 2012Import from Adobe Premiere via AAF in Smoke 2013 Trial1 seems to work fine except:
a) only two audi tracks got imported
b) additional mono tracks in Adobe got lost during the conversion
Might be worth investigating. Bug?
AutoDesk Smoke :: Crashes In Library On XML Import From FCP
Oct 21, 2011I'm new to Smoke and have an issue. Im importing an xml from FCP and Smoke crashes in the library. I'm taking a class @ FXPHD and the first class is an easy xml import reading the source media.
As soon as I load the xml into the clip library Smoke crashes. I've already gone thru the system set up requirements and have a great machine built to Smoke requirements. I'm wondering if it is a network configuration of some sort? Not sure...
image attached at freeze point
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import AAF From Avid Symphony 6?
Aug 2, 2012I am trying to import an AAF from Avid Symphony 6.
AAF is detected OK, when I try to import it gets stuck looking for sources. I have put the AAF files as close to the media as possible (1 folder up) as I do not want to put the AAFs in the MXF folder as it will upset the Avid.
I have simplified the AAF to have no speed changes, layers or effects - its a one layer cuts only sequence.
Smoke ends up not responding and I have to force quit.
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import As Frames / One Clip
Jan 31, 2013If there is still an option somewhere where I can force my import to be frames and set duration to 5 or 10 frames like in 2012. or force a set of sequences o be imported as one clip.
Update: Found the frames option but no frame durations available. But no single clip available in case of importing multiple sequences or frames that need to be in a single sequence.
Currently dancing between Flame Premium 2013x2sp3/2013Sp4 nd Smoke on mac 2013Ext1
AutoDesk Smoke :: Slow Import Of JPG File?
Nov 11, 2013I m importing 400 jpg file(4k resolution) and it is quite slow when comes to bin. and when i tried to open that folder in bin and trying to select all of them and taking on timeline, it takes hell of time and sometime gets crash.
I m usining Mac pro latest machine with 32 gb RAM and usining quadro 4000 graphic card. While same thing we are doing on other mac machine which is 3 years old with FCP 7, does not have any issue at all
( i m using smoke 2013 ext.1)
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import Media FAIL
Aug 10, 2012I'm having some difficulties in importing the material for the 2013 Smoke PR-2, when he gets care LINKED with the file, if I change the file folder on the desktop it disappears. How should I proceed?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: Choose Layer On PSD Import
Mar 15, 2013In previous versions, when we’ve want to import a psd file, we could choose from several options (all/layer/flat). Particular, we could select the layer of the psd you want imported.
In the 2013, we can’t do this. Is it possible to have these opportunities again?
AutoDesk Smoke :: Can't Find EDL Or XML Import Function
Jun 12, 2012Can't seem to find a EDL or XML import function - aren't that in the pre release ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAutoDesk Smoke :: Can Import Vector As Geom
Nov 29, 2012I'm making an HD version of a moving matte I did a while back in After Effects. I'm considering rebuilding it in Smoke.Basically I need to zoom into a shape, I guess cut by a mask, but I need to retain the crispness of the edge.
Having a Gmask on a media layer is rasterising the vector shape by the time it gets into Action so I can't blow it up.Do I need to do all the animation in a Gmask node? I see that it has it's own axis and schematic so so that could be ok, but I wonder if you can do it in Action.
Also, can I import a vector into Smoke as a Geom any how? The Geoms in Action and Gmask are interchangable are they?
AutoDesk Smoke :: Import Or Export Rotoscopes
Oct 11, 2011is it possible in Smoke to import dfsh, ssf or fxs files? Or export those? Or is there any other way to exchange rotos with fusion?
Smoke 2012 SAP2 SP4
and
Smoke 2013 SP2 (Smoke Classic Keyboard Shortcuts)
Mac Pro 4,1
OS X 10.6.7
12 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
14 TB RAID (Areca)