[Adam Lewen]

Thanks Michael!
You understood my question completely, and it helped me pinpointing what I am looking for.
I am trying to find a way to have a video-wall which I could control every video/tile in it, but also to suddenly apply a video or image on the whole wall.
Do I make sense here?
Let’s say 8X8 tiles/screens. This can be easily done by hand.
Each one of them is a video. We see a mosaic of 64 screens.
Even with a simple dissolve I would like to have a NEW video cover all screens…

Thanks for reading!

[Adam Lewen]

Paul you were right on my problem.
Thank you!
Dragging the edge and putting it in ‘its own new spot’ made it happen.

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks! Did a precomp to all BUT the Top layer and inverted based on the top layer’s boxes…

Worked.

[Adam Lewen]

What I want to see eventually is the BG layer with “holes” of transparency where the white squares were. (the transparent checkered ‘nothing’ behind…)

Thanks for reading

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks for replying.

I tried a couple of different methods when burning to DVD. With no real luck. I also need the files a bit compressed, without burning them to DVD (the situation now is 1GB for 42 sec…) an whenever i compress it a bit a lot of info is being jagged…
I think i am doing something wrong while rendering, but I am not sure.

[Adam Lewen]

Serge, this is like a mini tutorial!
I think you should put it up on the site.
It is also great help. thank you very much.
If I will have any further questions I’ll ask.
But this is exactly what I was looking for.
Adam.

[Adam Lewen]

Yo were right to be confused. I replayed way too fast, and I am looking for reflectiveness on the letters… So your post from 2 days ago helps, I just did not understand one out of the two main things you said;

-To have more control on what is reflected on an object best is to use a comp as a layer map, add your environment to this comp and scale it way down until you see a clear reproduction of your map on your 3D object.

I will try to play around with it, but I am not sure what exactly you mean by that.

But Thanks a lot for catching my thread!!

[Adam Lewen]

Great help! I was looking for a couple of days now under ‘reflection’ ‘3d metal reflective’ etc…
this is a good start
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/okerstrom_jon/reflections.php

[Adam Lewen]

I will do that.
Had no idea that this is the term. Thanks.

[Adam Lewen]

Thanks for the replays, I have been trying with Zaxwerks, I guess I am trying to achieve something too specific to describe. I will keep on trying through Zax. I think what I am looking for will need to combine a matte that will ‘reflect’ on the moving text…