Add video to blank sweeping screens in a room

[Darby Edelen]

Did you create these 3 screens in AE or is this video footage?

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Vincent Eckstein]

No this are 3 screens in the video shot.

the video is like this. It starts with just one screen showing in the room then it pans to the right sweeping over a tv in the middle and go to the far right one and then it pans back to the middle one and zooms out to show all 3.

[Simon Bonner]

I will assume you already have the animation of the screens completed. However, it’s still difficult to say what you should do next as I am unsure as to whether you have animated using a camera that is moving in 3D space, or you are simply animating the screens’ position properties to budge them in and out of the visible comp area.

If you are animating screen position, you should consider using a camera instead.

The reason I’m thinking you might be animating screen position is that, if you were using a camera, you would not have to worry about making your footage “stay in the screen” when the screen moves. The footage would share much the same position as the screen, and this wouldn’t change when the camera moved.

However, if you have the animation just as you want it, place the footage beneath the screen in the layer stack, use the pen tool to draw a mask around the edges of the screen if the screen is not already transparent, set the mask to “subtract”, position the footage how you want it, then parent the footage to the screen. When the screen moves, the footage will move with it.

Also remember to turn on motion blur for all your layers and for the comp.

Hope this helps.

Simon Bonner

youtube.com/simonsaysFX

[Simon Bonner]

Ah, it hadn’t occurred to me that this might not be motion graphics… Well, you could try corner pinning it but it might not look too good.

Simon Bonner

youtube.com/simonsaysFX