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How’d they do that – 3D Page Transitions
I ran across a video that uses a very unique way of transitioning between slides. Not really used for live video but something for announcements, product slides, etc. I’m guessing they are using 3D space, and cameras. But I can’t wrap my head around how exactly it is done.
The video can be checked out here –
mms://wm1.christianvideochannel.com/gccwired/wkndSun1015Current.wmv
The first two minutes of the video are a cleaver way to do announcements/events.
The church actually has some amazing videos, very professional media content.http://www.gccwired.com/mediaplayer/playerHome.asp
You gotta check out iDate if you go there.Thanks for any insight, I hope there is an easy way to create this and just change the slides as events change.
Josh
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I think that was done in an app that has nothing to do with post production. It’s probably some shareware Open GL program that you input pictures and it does that effect. Just like iTunes 7 does with album covers.
But if you want to do that in AE it’s pretty simple. For the reflections, just duplicate any of the picture layers and flip it upside down, put it “butt to butt” with it’s original. Then drop the opacity on it to about halfway. Then put a square mask around it, but have the one part of that square mask cut across the picture. Then feather the hell out of the mask. This will make the “reflection” fade off as it get’s further away from it’s original. Lastly you can try a slight blur on the reflection layer, although you may want to keep it crisp. Parent the reflection layer to it’s original, then lastly place all these pairs in 3D space in AE and parent all the originals to a null that you can spin around a static camera.
But I still think it’s a simple program that does it for you. Apple’s dropping one built into the next OS that will give you those kind of options very simply using it’s coreImage technology.
Chris Smith
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Here’s the formula:
A. Place four (4) equal sized video/still image frames into four independent precompositions.
B. Align those precomps in 3D workspace in a cube-like configuration with no panels behind, over or under them. As a precautionary item, you might want to use a solid black background with a 10% luminance value just to make sure that your background doesn’t cause luminance fluctuations in your foreground motion images.
C. Parent all four precomped image panels to a null object precisely in the middle that will rotate with ease-out and ease-in motion.
D. Set up a 3D camera inside of the rotating object just behind the null controller on the same exact plane as the null, meaning that the camera is between the null controller and the viewer and looking directly through the null at the foreground.
E. Create a simple 15 to 30 frame movement for your camera that begins and ends at the same precise location and add a keyframe in the middle of those frames to have the camera glide backward toward the viewer about 40, maybe 50 pixels so that the cube rotates and the camera pulls back so that one of the cube
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Pretty sure it was just Apple’s Keynote.
https://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/
You can export QT movies of the presentations with it.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USACurrently producing these popular podcasts:
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jon,
You hit the nail on the head. Apple Keynote Reflections transitions. I watched the Apple demo for Keynote and it shows the exact transition. I own both Mac and Windows, so I think I’ll export out of Keynote as Quicktime movie.
Thank you all for you suggestions.
Josh
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