Image Sequence Problem

#1

I have been having a small problem with combustion. I am working on a fly-over composite shot, in a matrixy sort of way. Anyhow’s that is beside the point… when I import an image sequence [ i have tried both TGA’s and TIFF’s I get black, as if i have done nothing in the viewer I see the same thing as before i imported… except in the timeline i have the correct number of frames listed.

I have tried importing as a .mov sequence and that has played without trouble; however, the boss [ quite reasonably doesn’t want renders in .mov or .avi format… so that leads me to the question… what button am I pressing wrong to give me this black screen… I know this is a newb question I normally just stick to cinema 4d.

#2

mhh, this is weired. i’ve never had any problems importing a tiff or tga sequence and i can’t recall of ever heard of one…

although you said when importing a mov file things are ok which makes the situation even stranger, you might want to look at these areas:
dou you import the sequence into the composite or into the workspace? in the later case, the sequence hasn’t become a layer of your composite and hence can’t be visible as such.
do you have your viewport set to display the composite level? if not, you could look at some layers, but because the newly imported sequence is in top off all layers, it’s not visible in the viewport.
do you import it at first frame? if not, the sequence starts at the frame of import. if you look at an earlier frame, the sequence hasn’t started yet and can’t e displayed in the viewport.
you might have tickedd the invert alpha button. if your sequence didn’t contain any alpha, this would make the whole layer transparent.
does this only happen with this special sequence or does it happen with all tga and tif sequences?

best,
-rayk

#3

Maybe the alpha of your whole scene is black of any weired reason. When you view your sequence in a viewer like Acdsee you can see it because Acdsee is not capable of alphas, but combustion is. Have a look at a frame in Photoshop and in the channels-tab look at your alpha.
Maybe this helps…

#4

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