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September 28, 2022
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Update the Add Grain effect to use GPU and 32-bit

  • September 28, 2022
  • 44 replies
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I need to apply grain frequently in my work to clean plates I’ve created, and it needs to match the 6k/4k HDR plates I’ve been provided. I prefer Add Grain to Match Grain, as it’s quicker and more accurate for me to manually set it. Because of the size of the plates, and the lack of GPU acceleration in this plug-in, it’s the main bottleneck in my rendering speed, plus 32-bit would help with color fidelity. Obviously, multiframe rendering would be great, too, but I would at least love GPU acceleration to start!

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mrk888
Participating Frequently
April 30, 2023

I've checked out today Boris FX UltraGrain plugin, part of the Sapphires plugins, and it seems to work pretty well in my 32bit ACEScg comp without doing any clamping. Pity we have to buy 3rd party plugins for such basic functionality. All BorisFX stuff is 25% off until midnight CET today should anyone be interested. 

mrk888
Participating Frequently
November 14, 2022

One more vote from me. ACES without 32bit support of basic film postproduction plugins like regrain/degrain is rather useless. Same goes for Photoshop and the lack of 32bit support for the content aware functions that make generating, say, clean plates so much faster.

C'mon Adobe - let's make "I'll do this in AfterEffects" great again.

K.

Participant
November 9, 2022

This is absolutely essential. As others have said, with more and more jobs working in ACES, some kind of noise matching is absolutely essential to even basic compositing. I'm currently facing two series without this vital tool, and its a bit awkward to have to ask the camera crew to shoot noise plates for me everytime.

 

I know its not as simple as pressing the "make 32bit" button when you're coding, but we desperately need this tool to be able to make use of literally anything else in it. Content aware fill is, in practical terms, useless without the ability to match noise.

Participant
October 20, 2022

Just coming back to be a squeaky wheel!  I love a lot of the workflow improvements Adobe made in the 2023 release, including ACES!  Let's keep the momentum going with more quality of life enhancements and fix Add Grain!  Come on Adobe, you can do it!

Inspiring
October 20, 2022

People, please remember to upvote to keep Adobe's attention. Seem to be that the only way to get improvement, is to shout loudly and often.

 

Shame

Participant
October 20, 2022

Adobe please.

It's literally a 30 minute job for a dev.

We're already getting OCIO ACES support in the beta, sweet.

Please just give us a working 32bit grain effect, without it, all your efforts with introduceing ACES into AE are mute, because the minute anyone uses Add Grain (which is probably on 80% of vfx shots) it will kill the entire ACES workflow 😕😕

Inspiring
October 3, 2022

Upvoted again.

Please Adobe. I have spent the better part of a year looking for a decent alternative for the grain plugin. So far nothing as capable and uncluttered as Add Grain. The tool does just what I want, but lacks 32-bit support.

Participating Frequently
September 28, 2022
Not just the grain and noise settings but the color management as well. If you ask me color management in AE is terrible and the whole thing needs an immediate overhaul. Working with multi channel exrs and ACES in Nuke is a breeze compared to the crazy and often confusing processes in AE. Have been using AE for 20 years now and if things dont change I'll have to abandon it completely
Participant
September 28, 2022
update the grain to 32bit, add gpu support to speed things up, and maybe even consider native OCIO/ACES color workflow or, as others have said, you are completely irrelevant in the current VFX space.
Known Participant
September 28, 2022
Adobe, do you hear us? We don't need a new AI gizmo! We need BASICS!! Like a grain effect that actually works with today's workflows! I'm seriously considering switching to NUKE for any compositing because of this, and how sloooooowww AE is with EXRs.