Aharon Rabinowitz
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if you have a 3D camera in there, make sure Depth of Field is turned off.
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selecting a 3D layer and hitting AA will reveal it’s 3D material properties. One of those properties is Accept lights (on/off).
BTW – hitting AA on the camera reveals all of the camera properties.
AA is the special “reveal 3D properties” command in AE.
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That’s how I would do it…
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Choose: View > Show Rulers
Then: pull out guides in the same way you did it in photoshop
Then: View > Snap > to Guides.
Then start snapping them together..
However, because of the missing pixels on the edges, it might be worth it to leave a little extra stuff in the crop, and the use the layer transfer/blending mode called difference to line thing up. I actually covered this in my tutorial called Blending mode Tips #1 – click on my head and scroll down a bit.
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I’ve actually been thinking about the new puppet tool (AE CS3)and spidey web effects. I wonder if you could get something nice out of that…
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At this point, I honestly have no answer for you. If your system is balking, you cannot have a comp at that resolution.
I just don;t understand why you need a comp that big. Perhaps after making the comp, you can make it a more managebale size and the in the main comp, collaps transformations. That *might* do it.
No idea about the image seams. What format are you using (Tiff, TGA, PNG)?
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I guess it depends on what your compressing. Ounce for ounce, I have found that lo-motion video, like my tutorials, look much much better when compressed as flash then as WMV or H.264, and they are much smaller in file size.
Plus H.264 can overwhelm slower processors (which any format at a high enough Data rate can do, but H.264 is particularly guilty of this).
WMV – which I think looks better then H.264, at least with regard to color (and of course that’s a bit subjective), is still a shot in the dark because of the whole mac thing. Most Mac users prefer to keep Bill Gate’s stuff off their machines.
Plus I hate that with WMV you can’t scrub through time while watching the video. In other words, the image doesn’t update until you let go of the time slider. It makes it difficult for clients to navigate through your work. At least with flash you can see the keyframes as you scrub. Quicktime of course, trumps all of them with the ability to scrub and see.
Anyway, Not that I disagree with you, but from a purely readability perspective, flash is always going to be your best solution, because no matter how good the quality of your video, it can’t be seen if people don’t have the latest versions of those players. With Flash that;s never an issue.
Whenever I use Flash for showing work to clients, I don’t receive calls about not being able to watch my videos. Can’t say the same for any other format.
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Just a though but – if they were compressed using a combo of interval based keyframes (so like 1 every 10 seconds) and automatic keyframes (based on scene changes/difference in look) and there are a lot of keyframes at the end, perhaps it’s causing an issue, when being read by squeeze.
does the very end of the video have fast moving or rapidly changing video?
This is complete conjecture, btw – I have no idea if this would cause a problem – but I do know that keyframes often cause a repetition of frames when decoded (played back). That migth explain why the video seems to play at a low frame rate. It may actually be playing at the right frame rate, but just showing repeated frames.
Try this – turn off automatic keyframes in squeeze (in the advanced settings) and see if that works.
Also do a frame by frame check of the original video and see what it looks like – is it distorted or repetative?
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Of course your most likely to reach the most people if you use Flash video. The lfash 8 codec (On2 VP6) is a great codec that delivers nice results to the largest amount of people.
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yes. The precomp size is calculated in the image buffer.
Curious – are you precomping this? if you just connect these images together in the main comp, that will solve your problem.
Here’s a hint – set up all of the images so they look like one seamless image.
Create a Null at the center.
Make them all the child of the null.
Lock the layers.
Make them shy, and use the shy button to hide them.
Now you can control everything through the null, and the images will behave as one image, with no risk of messing up all the peices.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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