Corner pin rotation and transformation delima

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Nice workflow there Glen. My personal fav would be as per Ricardo’s suggestion to precomp the frozen frame. Mask it to crop out what’s not needed and then to resize the comp to fit the new sized image.

As for nudging the points for perfection. Selecting all keyframes for a point and then scrubbing with realtime preview works well for me.

Having said that, an Expression using Layer Transformations should do the trick nicely. We’ll have to get the Expressionists in on the act for that.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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[Dan Ebberts]

If I understand Glennser’s method, it seems like you could apply a layer transform expression to the pins of the second instance of CC Power Pin to tie them directly to the tracking points for the frame. It would look like this:

fromComp(thisComp.layer(“Frame Layer”).motionTracker(“Tracker 1”)(“Track Point 1”).attachPoint)

Dan

[Aaron Bear]

Haha…this whole corner pin deal isnt favoring me too much. I have tried scrubbing the x and y position using ctrl for one of the corner pins but with the shape and rotation of the layer and mask, its nearly impossible to get it remotely close to the picture frame’s dimentions.

I think Im having more luck precomping the freeze frame and resizeing the comp. That method seems to cooperate with me more but the freeze frame becomes slightly blurry.

Thanks for all the help!
-Aaron

[Filip Vandueren]

I think some fuzziness is inevitable, using eny method.

You should shoot in a higher resolution than you’re delivering to, that could counter it a bit.