Everything Changes Now: Cryptomattes in Octane/AE/C4D

[@cg-senpai]

First I thought it would link Octane to Bitcoin or something. Much more happy with this feature though ;-) Thanks for sharing

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'll have to give it another try. I tried cryptomattes last year with no luck in AE

[@Teheiron]

Awesome! I've been looking exaclty for tutorials like this about cryptomattes. Thanks Joren!

[@simontrickfilmer]

After apply the Cryptomatte FX, apply the EXtractoR-FX and choose Layers: Beauty. No more Masking needed :-)

[@matthiasz2338]

It`s always nice to listen to your tutorials and knowledge. Thanks!

[@oriolysmedia]

Glad I watched this before hitting render . Thanks man ! Youre the Boss!

[@briantriesart]

Thanks a lot, do you know how to do it in photoshop? Thanks

[@MikhailKuzmenkov]

This is just fantastic! Thank you so much for your very useful and short tutorials!👍

[@JustinEastmanMedia]

Almost worth upgrading my licence to get this

[@dwisenhower]

Hmm is it possible to use with photoshop?!

[@alans056]

So the cryptomatte pass doesn't contain the beauty pass, only the masks ?

[@vid828]

Joren, can we get an updated version fo this?

[@VladislavBespalko]

Thank you!

[@jackserpell4652]

EXR Plugins are now included in the latest release of AE

[@wetelbow]

My goodness, If only I'd have known about this about 22 hours ago hahaha.. great video as always man.. keep rock'n!

[@thepixellab2011]

Thanks boss!

[@JJ-ze6vb]

Great to hear that it's finally working. Quick workflow thing that might be good for your viewers: don't teach them to copy the footage a bunch of times when the could just use adjustment layers for the color correction etc.

[@gregorzimmermann2514]

Well, this is not correct. If you put an adjustment layer above, it will change all(!) layers below, as it uses the composite of all layers that are below.

[@rudybertazzo]

It would make sense in a node-based workflow, but not in AE, since an adjustment layer will affect ALL layers below it, so in AE you have to duplicate the footage.

[@menakhovsky]

God bless you!

[@onur.nidayi.1344]

Thanks for this Bro !!

[@REDPanti]

Wooo hoooo finally

[@drvndrvn]

Hi, could you look into setting up Cryptomatte using c4d Arnold 5, the only tutorial is in german. much appreciated if possible.

[@WPSoul]

the only problem which I found is that cryptomatte effect in AE is much slower than extractor for big scenes

[@thepixellab2011]

Good to know, thanks for that input mate!

[@brown2840]

Do you notice some aliasing or fringing when you matte something this way? I have noticed it's not showing super clean edges.

[@filmkaar-nitin]

Thank you for your excellent tutorials. Using Cryptomatte gives a 1pixel white fringe in the AE layers. I have had to use Refine Hard Matte effect to remove them. Is there any other way to not get the edge errors while creating the Exroctane?

[@eternalsnows6071]

Super helpful, thank you!

[@piotrek20101977]

Revelation !!! thank You

[@danielgarmizo]

hey thank you! how can i increase shadows and reflections with this system

[@Chewbacca2000]

Thanks man!!

[@Hellodentist]

This is awesome!

[@fabioapelbaum8840]

Hi there! thanks for the video! I have been using Cryptomattes since they became available to AE! As we all know, it does slow down everything until it caches! Very very slow... have anyone found any way to helps improve the speed when using it? So far in order to be able to work faster?

[@Willopo100]

does it work with octane scttaer?

[@malcolmo668]

Awesome! Side question...how are you able to type the name of an effect you want and add it? Is that a separate plugin? Thanks!

[@thepixellab2011]

It's Videocopilot FX Console, it's a free plugin on their site and it's awesome. Highly recommend...

[@malcolmo668]

@@thepixellab2011 bonus game changer!

[@KowProdMedia]

@@thepixellab2011 100% couldn't live without it!

[@kapilchakre]

Great!!

[@KowProdMedia]

Has anyone been having an issue where the animation and the matte don't match up? Not only do they seemingly get out of sync, but the matte (EXR(Octane)) file is just flat out shorter by two frames than the animation itself. Maybe I'm doing something incorrectly, (I am new to Octane and Cryptomatte) but I don't see any extra checkboxes or anything like that.

[@devenjameslangston]

sounds like it's a frame rate issue. C4D outputs whole frames at 30 or 24fps, and you might be importing your image sequence to AE at 29.97 or 23.976 fps. It's just enough different to slowly get out of sync. Hope that was it!

[@KowProdMedia]

deven langston Nope, that’s not it. I was rendering at 24fps, and I was utilizing nulls so I just bring in the .aec file along with the EXR files. So, then I decided to just drag them in manually and still no dice 😕

[@devenjameslangston]

@@KowProdMedia Have you tried yelling at it loudly?

[@KowProdMedia]

deven langston A lot of “eff you, you effing effer!” And some empty threats 🤷‍♂️ I’ll give it another go soon.

[@hunterh3d]

@@KowProdMedia did you make sure that not only your output frame rate from C4D was 24 or 30, but do Ctrl+D to make sure the project world is also at matching framerate you want? Mismatching those two can cause issues when importing to AE or other compositors

[@TheEpicAB]

Does this make render times with octane faster in general?

[@Teheiron]

If You want to render masks, it's a game changer.

[@thepixellab2011]

It will speed up renders only if you were rendering masks. Rendering the masks takes a lot of extra time. If you're not rendering masks, this won't speed up the overall render.

[@flx3329]

Awesome, thank you so much! Too bad it doesn't work in the pathtracing render mode... or am I missing something here? *edit*: Have to correct myself: it does work with pathtracing render mode!

[@thepixellab2011]

Are you sure? I'm almost 100% I used pathtracing and it worked?

[@flx3329]

@@thepixellab2011 Oops, sorry, my bad - it DOES work with pathtracing! Phew! Not sure what went wrong when I tried it the first time...

[@devenjameslangston]

What a rollercoaster!

[@umpfdesign9468]

Amazing technology however excruciatingly slow on a 1080p render. Basically unuseable for me at the moment. Running a 9940x @ 4.6ghz + 32gb ram + 4 x 2080 ti.

[@ramvo001]

Meant for super low sample with AI upSample and AI Denoiser

[@hunterh3d]

@@ramvo001 what do you mean? This entire plugin is meant for low sample renders??

[@Justinjaro]

@@ramvo001 this is totally wrong wtf. This is for matte's you need a clean matte, why would you ever denoise anything to be used for a matte