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Jittery “Brush Strokes” Effect
Hi All,
When I apply the “brush strokes” effect in After Effects CS5 (via effect>stylize>brush strokes), I get an effect that looks great when the video isn’t playing (and I can adjust brush stroke width, density, etc. just fine), but when I generate a RAM preview, the effect looks all jittery and every stroke is wiggling around in constant motion. How can I get a more subtle painted canvas look? Nothing looks pixelated, the effect is just in constant motion. Are there controls for the effect that I’m missing.
Thanks for your help.
~Elizabeth -
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Do you know of any other filters that I can use to make my footage look like a moving painting?
~Elizabeth
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You could also try playing with the settings in the Cartoon effect.
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Thanks! Great idea.
~Elizabeth
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I’m loving the cartoon effect, but I have a question about it. I want my character in the shot to look like he’s stepping out a painting. I used the roto brush to isolate him from the background, and he’s got the cartoon effect on right now. But I want the cartoon effect on him to fade away until he becomes a “real person” again. Alot of the effects have the “blend with original” option which makes something like this easy, but the cartoon effect doesn’t seem to have that. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Duplicate your man layer and remove the cartoon effect from one. Then use whatever method you desire to bring in the non-cartoon version. You could use a precomp to drive a Gradient Wipe transition, you could animate the opacity, you could use a mask…endless possibilities.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Perfect! That’s going to work fantastically.
Thanks,
~Elizabeth -
I know this is an old thread, but it still pops up in top results on google, so just thought I’d post my fix for freezing the brush stroke effect in place for any future readers. You can put the Posterize Time effect below the Brush strokes one on a layer and set it to zero to freeze it. Or if you have video and don’t want it to freeze as well, put the brush and posterize effect on an adjustment layer above your footage, and precomp if you don’t want it affecting anything else.
The Grey Cow
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Hi!
The Posterize Time effect work only with non-vector layers. I try to do this trick with vector graphics and the precomposed layer doesn’t move at, even when I change its position or scale. When I turn off continously rasterize mode, it works, but the vector quality is missing. Any other idea?
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Hi Albert,
If you are using a vector layer, just apply the brush stroke and posterize time effects directly to the vector layer. If you need to precomp it, it should be fine as long as the effects are not applied to an adjustment layer. When you turn on continuously rasterize on a precomp with an adjustment layer, it applies that adjustment layer to the current composition.
The Grey Cow
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