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August 3, 2018
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Cineware Turns my Video Texture Yellow

  • August 3, 2018
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Hello! I've searched many a forum for this answer, but cannot find what I need. I hope someone here can help!

I've made a fairly simple animation in C4D Lite of a cube spinning with some lights, etc. It renders out of After Effects just fine until I add a video texture to it (under colors in the material editor). In C4DL the file looks fine and renders correctly, and in After Effects it looks fine in preview - and then I hit render. About 15 frames into the render, the texture turns completely yellow and almost crashes the program (the render never finishes either). Then the texture looks yellow in preview until I restart After Effects.

I've tried rendering out of Media Encoder and the Render Queue. I've followed some of the other recommendations online and "saved project with assets," relinking everything - no dice. I've created new files entirely, all in the same folder on the same drive. Nope!

It's frustrating because it looks fine in C4DL, even doing a multi-frame render in picture viewer looks fine. The problem occurs when After Effects becomes involved. Does anyone have any ideas? Or can anyone suggest how to render directly out of C4DL?

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Thank you!

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Correct answer Rekno

Thank you for the suggestion!  Unfortunately, C4D doesn't like either the Cineform or DNxHR file.  Out of curiosity, I also tried a ProRes422 - even though C4D took the file, it still turned yellow in After Effects.


Did some more tests.  C4D and After Effects are both happier using a .png sequence.  I was able to export 6 seconds - I'll do a longer trial (2 minutes) and see what happens.

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Participant
August 21, 2023

For me this had everything to do with memory pressure.

P.M.B
Legend
August 3, 2018

It might help if you provided details about the video file and your render settings.

~Gutterfish
ReknoAuthor
Participant
August 3, 2018

The video file is an .mp4, 860x1080.  Render settings out of AEX are the same.

Szalam
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 3, 2018

Try using the Adobe Media Encoder to make production codec version of the footage instead of using an MP4. That is, make a Cineform or DNxHR version of the footage and use that in C4D instead.