Aharon Rabinowitz
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I could look into it, but I’m not sure how it would work.
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my experience with Smedge is a bit old, but I used it at a studio with maya. It was simple enough to learn if you went through the manual. Shouldn’t take more then a few hours to get up an running.
No experience with any other network rendering system though. Sorry.
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Hey there-
Windows: CTRL+Alt+F
No “command” on a windows keyboard… alas. Dave I know you knew that, but its a mac force of habbit thing, I’m sure.
I believe it’s called “Fit to Comp” but I’m not sure.
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to my knowledge, skip existing frames is meant only for image sequences, and there’s no similar option for video files.
If you’re just using AE, You’ll have to divy it up amoung several machines.
Although – I beleive that Smedge – a batch rendering prgram – most closely associated with Maya has the ability to control batch rendering with AE.
https://www.uberware.net/smedge3/?PHPSESSID=b45b9723adbb7114f1500e0c3c0db998
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Emitter library: emitters_03_10.il3
The reason for multiple versions fo the same layer:
when you have many layers with low opacity but the “add” transfer mode, if they interact whle they move, you get a shimmer or varying degrees of glow. Exactly the same as the emitter I mentioned, but more time consuming becasue you have to do it by hand…
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Emitter library: emitters_03_10.il3
The reason for multiple versions fo the same layer:
when you have many layers with low opacity but the “add” transfer mode, if they interact whle they move, you get a shimmer or varying degrees of glow. Exactly the same as the emitter I mentioned, but more time consuming becasue you have to do it by hand…
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
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If it’s a single ray of sunlight – shine won’t help. You could make a yellow/ornage solid, draw the shape of the ray with a mask, and feather the edges. It’s not very active though. Set the trasfer mode to ad, and bring the opacity down a bit.
For more motion in the ray I’ve also done this using particleIllusion, which has an emitter called “from on high” which looks like a ray of light from the heavens that shimmers. You could probably simulate this using the method above but
Make many copies of the layer and adjust their width
Bring down their transparency a bit
Set their anchor point to the top center of the layer
animate their rotation randomly so they move over eachotther a lot and seem to shimmer.—————————————-
Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
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If it’s a single ray of sunlight – shine won’t help. You could make a yellow/ornage solid, draw the shape of the ray with a mask, and feather the edges. It’s not very active though. Set the trasfer mode to ad, and bring the opacity down a bit.
For more motion in the ray I’ve also done this using particleIllusion, which has an emitter called “from on high” which looks like a ray of light from the heavens that shimmers. You could probably simulate this using the method above but
Make many copies of the layer and adjust their width
Bring down their transparency a bit
Set their anchor point to the top center of the layer
animate their rotation randomly so they move over eachotther a lot and seem to shimmer.—————————————-
Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
Like Yikes said, I have a tutorial on making everything broadcast safe – it’s not a perfect solution, but it ensures that you will stay within color safety.
I also want to mention that the sorenson codec brings reds up a lot. So I’d suggest that everything you bring into AE be brought in uncompressed. Only your final output should be compressed, and even then, only if it’s going to the web or a sample you’re puting on CD.
BTW – Animation compression is a lossless comnpression so colors stay exactly the same.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
Select them in order from top to bottom. Then copy. That should do it.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com