Reflections video template

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

All you need to do is to make your layer 3D, then duplicate it once. Move the Anchor point for the copy that is going to be the reflection to the bottom, centered. Rotate it 180 degrees around the x-axis. Depending on your setup, another rotation around the z-axis may be required.

That’s your reflection. Parent the reflection layer to the ‘proection layer so that they stay together should you commit to transformations later on. Adjust Opacity to the reflection layer.

To make your reflection more reslistic than what you see in the video, add a mask and feather it to create a fall-off for the reflection.

HTH
RoRK

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[Luka Tisler]

You can find tutorial as well as free preset here.

[Belinda Edwards]

Neither of the posts are the one I am refering to. This is the one that I am refering to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-GmYaiIuuA.
But, thanks for the quick responses.
Steve

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[Darby Edelen]

I think it’s ridiculous that they would charge $90 for that template and do the reflections incorrectly! For shame, but I guess there have been more egregious failures of business ethics in the past 🙂

Here’s my recommendation for your reflections. Position and animate ALL of your 3D layers (without a camera or lights) in one composition. Use a 3D ‘Guide Layer’ as the floor, rotate it 90 degrees on the X-axis and place it at exactly half the vertical height of your comp (if you have a 1280×720 composition, make sure that it’s Y position is 360 for example). You must respect this floor in the pre-comp or your final reflections will be wrong. This means you cannot animate any layer going below your ‘floor’ layer in the pre-comp.

Once you have your pre-comp done place it into another composition, enable its 3D switch and enable the ‘collapse transformations’ switch. Now, duplicate the pre-comp and give it the following scale values: [100,-100,100]. This will flip all of the elements vertically around the anchor-point. Instant reflections. Reduce the opacity of the duplicate and add a blur for bonus points.

Note that adding the blur to the duplicated pre-comp with its transformations collapsed will ‘break’ some of its 3D properties, so you’ll need to be careful with its placement in the timeline (it should probably go below the unaffected pre-comp).

You can now animate a camera and lights in this main composition and the pre-comp (and the reflected pre-comp!) should both respond accordingly.

Darby Edelen

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Darby Edelen] “I think it’s ridiculous that they would charge $90 for that template and do the reflections incorrectly!”

Perhaps the pricing takes into account , the inclusion of the wedding footage? 🙂

FWIW, using AE’s Light Transformation properties is another way to get reflections.

Cheers
RoRK
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[Darby Edelen]

[Roland R. Kahlenberg] “FWIW, using AE’s Light Transformation properties is another way to get reflections.”

Unfortunately, light transmission will not give the ‘proper’ perspective for the reflections. In addition, light transmission only works by multiplying color values, where as a reflection will only add to the color values in the reflecting material.

Basically, you can fake reflections in a number of ways that will read as ‘reflection,’ but there’s no perfect way to do it in AE. The technique I outlined before is the best one I’ve found personally.

Darby Edelen

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA