ivan Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 so I'm spitting out a lot of layers (14) into .tif files in a deep raster, and several of them are floating point .tifs. The .tif files look great here (mplay under linux) tiffinfo claims they are good everything seems hapy. I deliver them offsite to a MAC after effects facility, and they can't read the files. They can sometimes read some of them, but not all of them. I have not found a common explanation. For a bit I thought they couldn't contain values outside 0-1, but that doesn't seem like the case now... any leads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualAlex Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hey Ivan, I think you might have to change your tif compression style (to "Adobe Deflate"?) in your ROP if I remembered correctly... could this have been it? EDIT: hmm... looks like the default is already on Adobe Deflate... I guess one of the compression for tif then (or perhaps "No Compression")... i can't remember... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I didn't think After Effects supported Adobe Deflate compression. Try LZW. However, since you can open *some* files, I don't know what the problem is. Are you sure they support floating point tiffs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 After Effects does support float TIFFs (I just checked). However, they're supported only in the Professional version and one has to pay attention at the color settings of the project, otherwise the floating point files might get their color altered. Maybe some of the workstations don't have the Pro version installed? Also, I generally use uncompressed TIFFs for better compatibility. It's also good to know that After Effects 7 also imports float OpenEXR. Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico D. Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Try using EXR, it should work better with After Effects, if you want tiff, use LZW. And be carefull that everytime you open the houdini file, all your compression setting goes back to default, then If you changed to LZW compression, and you reopen the scene, all setting are Adobe Default again, then is better to use EXR. There is a config file you can change to specify what compression is default for tiffs, but I dont remember where is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 The config file is FBoptions, in $HH. To change the compression permanently, chage the line marked "TIFF compression" to: TIFF compression LZW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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