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trouble with precomps
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Now I understand what you’re wanting. Any rendered movie that you bring back in is going to be 2D. If you want the original 3D object to be longer, why not just drag the end keyframe(s) out to wherever you need them to be?
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That was the point of my original question. I have a 38 frame animation of a butterfly’s wings flapping. If I do what you say, I would have to replicate those frames over and over for the length of the project. 30 to 40 seconds. I have to believe there is a better way. But as this thread has proven, there must not be.
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How many keyframes are involved in the flap? Two? You could go Track>Generate Keyframes to auto-fill your timeline and then copy/paste the first and second keyframes to every other keyframe, or duplicate the “flap” track however many times you need and stagger them along the timeline. You’d then dump them all into a container and do your 3D manipulations at the container level.
Not an ideal solution in either case, but this isn’t 3DS Max or AE we’re talking about here. AFAIK this is the only way to pull it off in RED.
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Thanks Steve.
I think Boris should aspire to be every bit as powerful as After Effects. It is there in many ways, still needs some work though. -
The butterfly project points our what I believe is a flaw in the direction of the web-based tutorials presented for RED by the BorisFX team. Most of the tutorials deal with how to apply cool filters to achieve certain efects but there is very little that actually deals with the nuts and bolts of operating RED.
I encourage the BorisFX team to also produce tutorials that show more of the intricacies of RED operation and workflow. RED is very deep and is capable of so much. We need more help in extracting its power.
Also it would be great if the Boris RED manual was fully up-to-date.
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