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Rendering at Half Resolution...
Published (2009-11-25 23:57:00)
[Nicholas Shera] "So why are my memory settings being totally disregarded when I render at Half Resolution???" There are two common culprits: You have Open GL enabled for rendering. Turn it off. Turn it off NOW. It's useless. The footage you used is giving AE fits. Read on: Dave's Stock Answer #1 : If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4,...
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Paralax effect/matching...
Published (2009-11-25 16:17:00)
What you're referring to is a simple version of what is often referred to as 'camera mapping' or 'camera projection' . See this page for a link to a free chapter from Mark Christiansen's book that describes how to do this sort of work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated putting the 'T' back in...
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Render settings to avoid banding
Published (2009-11-26 04:20:00)
dnxd and others aren't 4:4:4. even prores is 4:2:2 I think. http://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
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Another 'How'd they do...
Published (2009-11-25 16:17:00)
The titling looks pretty straightforward, so I'll assume you're talking about the background. I see three things going on: Some of the shapes write-on (see this Cow tutorial on growing elements ) Some shapes pop on (with simple scale/opacity keyframes) Some regions of shapes seem to wipe on (perhaps a circular, feathered iris) It's a lot of work. You have to cut the background into many layers for each of those effects. The...
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Mac or PC
Published (2009-11-25 15:31:00)
Oh, puhleeze, not that question. Don't ask this question. Not here. Not now. It's your money, not mine. This decision cannot be made by anyone except you and you must not accept anyone's advice. Weigh your needs against your desires and your budget and buy what you want. I've only ever used Macintosh for my serious video, writing, and photography work. Buy a Macintosh. You will love it. Having a PC may benefit you in some...
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creating track matte
Published (2009-11-25 19:04:00)
Understandable ... I only referred to PNG and Animation as examples of codecs that support alphas ... there are tons of others so just find out which one they want and render to it ... you might even be able to download an Avid codec from their website and render in their native format ... I have a few AVID codecs in my collection, but I don't recall whether I had to buy them or they were free (either as website downloads or shared...
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Mac or PC
Published (2009-11-26 16:44:00)
Is it fair to say that Apple has a more user-friendly OS (compared to Windows), but that a good PC systems integrator can get you more powerful hardware inside the box? Which might reinforce the "hard-core 3D, go PC" idea? (trying to stay flame-free here ...)
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Need to add audio to text effect
Published (2009-11-24 12:38:00)
There are tons of sound FX available on the web and many of them are free ... try searching the "Free Stuff" forum here on the COW and Google.
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Need to add audio to text effect
Published (2009-11-24 21:58:00)
Dave = right. AE is not an editing program at all. But you don't have to have the sound synced perfectly to the animation either, unless I totally misunderstand what you're doing. You just have fast changing text, so get (or create) a fast bleeping/blipping/swishing/clicking/whatever sound and play them together. Most of the time it'll look like it's synced up without you having to do anything. - The Great Szalam (The...
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Contiguous Color Key
Published (2009-11-25 16:19:00)
I've sometimes filled holes from keys by playing with extreme values of matte chokers. Use a big negative choker until the hole is filled in, then a big positive choker to remove it from all the edges.
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Latest active threads on Adobe After Effects::
Started 1 day, 13 hours ago (2009-11-26 22:30:00)
by Sam Olesen
If you use a PC, then hold ALT and click the points.. this converts the points to bezier curves (smooth curves).
Started 18 hours, 8 minutes ago (2009-11-27 18:05:00)
by Dave LaRonde
Foam is a very versatile and complex effect with a LOT of controls in it. Are you trying to use it intuitively, or did you read this:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS387 8526689cb91655866c1103a9d...
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Started 19 hours, 17 minutes ago (2009-11-27 16:56:00)
by Bob Root
Hi Dominique,
At the bottom of your composition panel there is a button for changing views. Right now it's probably set to Active Camera. You can change it to other preset views or customize your own.
To the right of that button, you can select your view layout to view multiple angels at the same time.
Hope this helps.
Bob
Started 18 hours, 31 minutes ago (2009-11-27 17:42:00)
by Todd Kopriva
from "Composition settings" :
"Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website to set the frame rate and duration of the current composition and all compositions nested within it."
I found this with this After Effects Community Help search .
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe ...
Started 1 day, 9 hours ago (2009-11-27 02:27:00)
by Steve Roberts
Fake the 3D by curving the lines so they arc up and back down again. Sure, it's not physically correct since you're viewing from above, but it may be what the client is imagining. Or make the ones at top of screen arc up, and ones at bottom of screen arc down. The start and end points would be the same as before.
Or ... you could use 3D stroke to draw a line that curves up toward camera and...
Started 2 days, 12 hours ago (2009-11-25 23:54:00)
by Dave LaRonde
Don't use After Effects to do the conversion to mpeg2. It can't do two-pass or multipass encoding, which greatly improves the quality of an mpeg2 image. Instead, Render a high-quality file from AE, and use a different encoder to do the conversion.
I would double-check those settings on that encoder you used. Someplace in them there has to be place to indicate that this is a PAL-...
Started 2 days, 20 hours ago (2009-11-25 16:11:00)
by Dave LaRonde
Check the basics:
Check if you have enabled Open GL for rendering. If yes, turn it off. It's useless. Do it now. Check your footage. Is it HDV, by any chance? Is it an MPEG or something? How about mp4? Read on:
Dave's Stock Answer #1 :
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, ...
Started 3 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-24 22:41:00)
by Dave LaRonde
If the two suggestions below don't work, you may have to re-shoot. HDV cameras in general don't do well if the picture is improperly exposed.
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If you've got Open GL enabled, disable it. It does more harm than good.
If you haven't converted that HDV footage to a different codec before you import it into AE, ...
Started 3 days, 16 hours ago (2009-11-24 19:46:00)
by Dave LaRonde
Sorry, but what you've done already is a pretty effective solution.
If you wanted to get fancier, you could minimize the blue in the glasses by using the mask you've already animated on a separate layer and applying AE's Spill Suppressor effect... perhaps more than one instance. Just stick it UNDER the layer containing the chroma key.
I've always been apprehensive about that ...
Started 1 day, 18 hours ago (2009-11-26 17:50:00)
by Gary Hazen
Add a small amount of noise (2% should work) to reduce the banding.
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Hot threads for last week on Adobe After Effects::
Started 2 days, 20 hours ago (2009-11-25 15:31:00)
by david bogie
Oh, puhleeze, not that question.
Don't ask this question.
Not here.
Not now.
It's your money, not mine. This decision cannot be made by anyone except you and you must not accept anyone's advice. Weigh your needs against your desires and your budget and buy what you want.
I've only ever used Macintosh for my serious video, writing, and photography work. Buy a Macintosh. You will ...
Started 3 days, 16 hours ago (2009-11-24 19:46:00)
by Dave LaRonde
Sorry, but what you've done already is a pretty effective solution.
If you wanted to get fancier, you could minimize the blue in the glasses by using the mask you've already animated on a separate layer and applying AE's Spill Suppressor effect... perhaps more than one instance. Just stick it UNDER the layer containing the chroma key.
I've always been apprehensive about that ...
Started 5 days, 19 hours ago (2009-11-22 16:50:00)
by Todd Kopriva
Most plug-ins are compatible from one version to the other, as are virtually all animation presets.
As you can probably imagine, I have several versions of After Effects installed on each of several computers, and I have not had problems with an installation of a new version messing with the installed plug-ins or animation presets for a previous version.
In most cases, you can copy ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-19 15:09:00)
by Jeremy Allen
It may help if you mask out the alpha edges... And you may need to precompose the masked version also.
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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1
Started 3 days, 14 hours ago (2009-11-24 21:17:00)
by Chris Wright
that looks just like an animated corner pin.
http://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-19 21:36:00)
by Dave LaRonde
[anita sancha] "I have a still image of a decorated tree with lights taken in the day time, which I could darken... how can I get that sparkle and color of the lights flickering."
There's more to this than you're considering. A LOT more.
In the daytime, lights come from different sources. Those shiny Christmas tree bulbs reflect a lot: you'll see walls, shop counters, the sky, ...
Started 3 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-25 08:43:00)
by blair dobson
Hi Mike,
I don't know if this helps you at all but the easiest and fastest way to get that effect is not in after effects (although it can be done in a rather lengthy way...) but in sony vegas using a built in plug in called " light rays".
you can email me for a tutorial or if you are really stuck you can send me your elements and i'll do it up for you. i can send you an element you can...
Started 1 day, 9 hours ago (2009-11-27 02:27:00)
by Steve Roberts
Fake the 3D by curving the lines so they arc up and back down again. Sure, it's not physically correct since you're viewing from above, but it may be what the client is imagining. Or make the ones at top of screen arc up, and ones at bottom of screen arc down. The start and end points would be the same as before.
Or ... you could use 3D stroke to draw a line that curves up toward camera and...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-20 16:23:00)
by Dave LaRonde
There's a Spill Suppressor in AE's keying effects. Try adding an instance. Or two.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-19 22:58:00)
by Dave LaRonde
[Judie Luszcz] "...I'm really hoping for chart form for an easy read. Suggestions?"
Sorry, but don't hold your breath.
AE is such a flexible application that it's extremely difficult -- if not downright impossible -- to produce such a chart. It really does come down to what you're expected to deliver to the next person who will use your work.
The chart for a guy who works ...
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