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Flying through 2D space?
I’m relatively new to AE6.5, so forgive me if this is so simple it hurts, but here’s my question:
I need to create the look of flying through a series of hanging TVs. They are suspended on a string and drop down from above, they swya as if blowing in a breeze. Now I need to “walk” through them, focusing attention on the nearest on as I pass.
In each frame will be frozen video, which will begin to play as you approach it.
Is this extremely hard? I’ve built it all on AVID Symphony, but I can “walk” through it with out obvious quality loss and I don’t have global control over all the frames.
If anyone has any thoughts, I’m listening with frateful ears!
Thank you!
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10 Replies
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Well, it’ not so difficult to do…
Select all of the monitor layers and make them 3D, select the TOP view on the monitor window, reposition the monitors and animate the camera throgh the monitors…
I think that’s all you need.
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Thank you for the quick response. I’ll report my results.
Sorry for the typos… my ears are grateful, not frateful (whatever that means)…
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Ok, I hope it helps you.
About the loss of quality, if you draw the monitors in Adobe Illustrator, you’ll be able to zoom in as much as you wish without any kind of loss.
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I made one huge one in photoshop and plan to scale it back for the farther layers. Would that achieve the same effect? I do not have Illustrator.
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Not to be rude, but isn’t this covered in the AE Help under “3D compositing”?
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Don’t forget you have to parent all of the monitor to the first one. That would be a lot more easier.
Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional -
I can’t see any reason to parent the monitors to each other…? If they need to drop independently, and sway independently, then you definitely SHOULDN’T parent them to each other.
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You might want to look at this tutorial. It uses road signs that could be substituted for your monitors.
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Hey Andrew,
Okay, you’re maybe right. In my thoughts, if I wanted to travel in 3D space with those monitors, I’d take the closer one to the “camera” (’cause I wouldn’t create one) and I would parent this monitor to all of the further monitors. Then, I’d just play with the Z axis of the first, so all the others follow. But I wouldn’t parent them to drop independently, logically.
Hey, relax bud, ‘just giving my way of doing it, and it would work just fine.
Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional -
OK, I’ve set it up, watched all the tutorial… had a glass of wine…ok two! and I’m thinking I can do it. I do want them to drop down separately, and have a natural sway to them as the camera walks through. The first part is so easy to set up, it’s this camera 3D thing that I can’t quite make work. I have just 3 monitors, all at different focal lengths via Z axis. I think I just need to spend a few hours figuing out what does what.
As an AVID editor, I dabble in compositing, usually just faking it to look good enough for air, but now I have time and a budget and I want to do it right. I never knew AE was such a different way of thinking. I’m impressed! I hope I can do it justice, and do appreciate this and all Creative Cow discussions. You are all an invaluable resource!
Thanks again!
Jason
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