The Basics Of EXR’s For After Effects

The Basics Of EXR’s For After Effects

on Jul 4th 2012 with 5 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects, 3d Software, and Free Project File
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 19:55 min

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When using 3d compositing with After Effects it takes a while to get your footage looking good and if even one of your 3d passes doesn’t look good or your shadows are to dark etc. you have to re-render and that takes time, however there is a solution; EXR’s. In this video I will go through the basics of EXR’s in AE and give some tips on how to use them well.

Tutorial

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  • Hicham

    Nice, and thanks for the source file.

  • glutenfree4u

    i’m sorry. but in 4 days this will be obsolete when Video Copilot releases Element 3D. easy import into after effects for 3D models and insanely fast render times!

    • http://vfxbyjames.info James Whiffin

      This workflow is for getting rendered files from max or maya to a compositing app. VC’s element doesn’t make any of those programs obsolete.

  • http://www.zebravideo.ca corporate video toronto

    Not sure about AE but in nuke layered exr slows down the comp like hell. i am trying not to use them , renderinf to 32 tiff

    • http://www.youtube.com/coldsidedigital Daniel Dye

      When rendering EXR for nuke, it’s best to render to scanline (instead of tiled) and use ZIP compression. This will give you the best read times in nuke.

      Cheers,

      Daniel Dye.