Monday
May222006
HDR Tutorial on the Cow
Monday, May 22, 2006 at 11:05PM There's a cool new tutorial on creativecow.net about 32bpc comping in AE7. Check it out, as it quickly and effectively demonstrates the fundamental idea behind HDR and a couple of things is does really well.
I just have a couple of technical notes on Andrew's tutorial. Andrew shows how to extract an HDR from a camera raw file, and he does this by taking Exposure, Brightness, and Contrast down to their lowest settings. This is fine for Exposure and Brightness, but you want to set Contrast to zero, along with Shadows, as we discussed here.
The second note is that Andrew keeps reaching for the Gaussian Blur effect, but we know better, right?
Anyway, it's still a great intro to float, and it's cool to see others taking up the evangelism cause.
Reader Comments (5)
A couple of questions:
1. Is there any value to working in 32bit if all your footage is 8 bit?
2. How does one use the compander (or whatever it is called)effect so that you can use 8bit and 16bit effects in float?
Thank you.
isn´t Andrew Kramer missing something? how does he work in 32 bpc mode? the tutorial skips the part where he changes the project settings. does he use a linear color profile or anything else?
help appreciated
payton
!!WOOT WOOT!!
Our studio should be going up a step with AFX7 and the rest of the production bundle shortly, good to see that there is a blog related to this sort of thing!
Really looking forward to being able to work in float too!
flakester.
so 32bpc can look awesome and allows some very nice effects, but how do you export it? Seems kinda useless if all you can do is RAM preview the beauty in AE.
The really annoying thing is I can see the improvement of the 32bpc on my screen (yes in 8bpc land) so I know that AE could in theory export a normal 8bpc movie that would show this... but no, it always crushes down to 8bpc first then export and it looks horrid...
Any suggestions?
Your screen is only 8-bit, so anything you can see on your screen can be saved to an 8bpc file.