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live video source in AE!! cooool!! :-)
I’m talking about Frischluft Lensfeed.
I don’t know if anyone else has happened across this little plugin yet, but I saw it the end of last week, and after playing with the demo i bought a copy. Its pretty darn cool (hence my eagerness to blabber on about it in this mini review). What it does is it allows you to treat a live video feed (from a firewire (and maybe USB2?) video source) as if it was a normal layer in after effects compositions. Okay, now before you scratch your head and go “what possible use is that?”, ….for most users its probably not that useful, but for any of us who work in FX supervising, this is wicked, it means you can take your laptop onto a greenscreen set (with DV camera, or whatever), have some background plates loaded up, and do a key of the live feed coming into the camera, …meaning you can spot potential key problems, and the gaffer can see a continually updating screen as he tweaks lights to match the background lighting. The down points of it at the moment are that DV cameras of course leave a bit to be desired in terms of codec quality (but hey, with the price of higher bitrate format cameras, such as DVCPRO50 and DVCPROHD coming down, that will change quickly, …and even at DV rez its great for a rough guide, …better than nothing), and the other negative is that its not realtime framerates, …you might get a 2 or 3 frames per second update, but thats it under AE6.5 (meant to improve under v7, …but hey, its still perfectly fine for rough checking and light aligning).
I’m using it on a big greenscreen gig this weekend, so we’ll see how it stands up to that pressure. -
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Hello Andrew,
The utility sounds really interesting would be great to know how you get on with this on your green screen shoot. When does After Effects 7 come out and wonder what features we can expect?
LEO BAKER
SYNC FILMS
Web: http://www.syncfilms.com
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I don’t know when AE7 is out (apart from the general 4th Quarter prediction that we’ve all heard for the past 6 months), and I don’t know what AE7 has in store for us, but in the manual for lensfeed it mentions that under AE7 a significant speed increase should be observed (hmmmmmm). Oh well, wait and see I guess. 🙂
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