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Any way in HitFilm or Boris to achieve these looks?
I’ve been looking into HitFilm and the Boris products as alternatives to AE.
A couple of things that I definitely want to be able to do are the following, which I can do within AE:
1) Bringing a still image–WITH A PERSON–to life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_BaQVLOcbs
2) And, text fly-throughs in 3D space, such as (starting at 3:03):
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/sure_target_2/
Are these possible within either products?
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Not sure… But to me personally, there isnt a true alternative to
After Effects, AE is purely Versatile and one should just simply
invest the time in learning and mastering this software if
you are a serious content creator and done!Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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I’ve been totally immersing myself in learning it for the past couple of months!
I’ve been going through tons of video tutorials on the VideoCopilot site that you mentioned in an earlier post!
Thanks.
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Yeah, but now the problem is finding a stand-alone copy of AE…
Steve
Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8
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I have done most of those things in Vegas and Photoshop… I’ve done photo-to-video, “The Ken Burns Effect”, as well as just plain short animations (not for a while… I was getting paid for that a couple of years ago).
And that’s exactly the technique I’ve used for shadows in composite stills.
I’ve done animations like the ball treatment directly in Vegas, then rendered out uncompressed with alpha channel so I could bring it back into an animation.
The “Ken Burns” parallax trick isn’t difficult. The key is what he’s showing — make yourself a clear background. I’ve usually just panned and/or zoomed the “cut-out” foreground figure a bit, never did one with as much complexity.
The thing that really sells it is the “puppet” effect, having the tennis player move really nicely. That would be pretty difficult to achieve directly in Vegas. I’d probably wind up breaking up the character into pieces and key-frame animating them in Vegas in separate layers… possible but tricky, and trickier still to get the motion right. Or just drawing them stop-motion-style in Photoshop… very time consuming if you need many frames.
I just bought HitFilm to make some of this stuff much easier. I have not had a chance to learn it yet, but the sale price was right a few weeks ago.
Just because I can figure out how to do it with just Vegas, Photoshop, and Boris Continuum doesn’t mean I should be happy with just those tools. It’s pretty busy work.
-Dave
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I can use Vegas to do most things too Dave, but i don’t, i’ve been
around long enough to know that no matter how you cut it, you need
a dedicated compositor like After Effects, Nuke, etc if you are
serious about the art….. Busy work yes, that’s why we charge our
clients the big bucks, lolSteve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019
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