Aharon Rabinowitz
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For creative Cow Training in AE check out https://www.creativecowtraining.net – you can get a direct link to Andrew Kramer’s Creative Cow DVD: Serious Effects and compositing, which is in my opinion, one of the most entertaining and practical AE training DVDs out there. A lot of cool stuff in there.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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I see stuff like that all the time. The fact is, many of the people buying this stuff, don’t know anything about particles – and more importantly, don;t want to know anything about them.
While it’s tacky, there’s certainly no legal issues, and depending on who;s buying it, it’s better than having to spend time and money buying and learning a program they will use only once.
But you’re right. It’s annoying.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Actually – I’m not sure if I’m understanding the question properly, but if I am, you might be able to. You can use Nucleo to render ANY layers in the BG of a comp while working with the rest of them.
The feature is called “commit to disk.”
So let’s say I have a bunch of precomped layers that are quite heavy – the precomp is full of a lot of effects and motion blur that slow after effects down. The end result is that any time I want to RAM preview, even for a small change, I have to re-render all of the heavy stuff too because it’s all in there (just hidden in a nested comp). In my main comp, I can select the nested comp, and choose Composition > Nucleo Pro: Commit to Disk.
This will render the nested comp (and ANY LAYERS I HAVE SELECTED -so even 10 Precomps) as 1 layer of video. The original layer (nested comp) will still be in there, but invisible (it’s eyeball switch turned off).
Anyway, durring the time that you are Commiting to Disk, the commited layers are locked, but you can still work with any other layers.
For clarification, see the most recent AE podcast (creativecow.net/aepodcast) which explains every major feature of Nucleo Pro, or you can just wait until tomorrow when there will be a link to the full 800×600 version of the video on the front page of the cow.
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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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FYI – We have a Trapcode Forum here where you may be able to get even more help.
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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 -
This is not really my area, but I know that you could do a lot with flash. More likely though, this is a programming thing.
On the other hand, you could make a DVD that just had options to choose that played different videos. In that way, it could be interactive. But you’d need to really plan this out.
For my DVD needs I use Adobe Encore, but maybe someone can suggest better.
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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 -
thanks for the kind words! I’m glad they are helping people.
…I’m going to bed.
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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 -
when I work with files that big, I generally just hand off the harddrive to the studio or whomever and then get it back after they;ve copied all the files.
Always good to have a portable 40-80GB drive or even just a large external drive…
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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 -
Several things here – that is not an uncompressed AVI. An uncompressed AVI that was 8 minutes long would weigh in around
14 or so GB. That’s probably a DV compressed video.How are you savinmg it out of AE as a quicktime? Are you exporting it or rendering it? What settings are you using.
Why does it need to be an uncompressed quicktime? Are you delivering it for editing somewhere? If so you can export as an image sequence that will either fit on one disc or that can be split up amoung many discs with no loss in visual quality. You can export a seperate audio file to go along with 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
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Also want to say – if anyone knows better than me (and I;m sure some of you do) please chime in. I avoi interlaced footage when possible, and when not, I rarely scale 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 -
That’s probably because the footage is interlaced.
In broadcast and DV, frames are usually split in 2, so that half of one frame is shown with half of the next or previous frame. It’s split by showing every other line of current frame mixed with every other line of the other frame.
When AE imports footage, it interpretes it and deinterlaces it, so every other line is removed. If you scale it up, you end up with some bad artifacts. There’s no perfect way around this, but this might be worth posting for advice in the main AE forum. There are plug-ins that can help you work around this issue.
Or you might try to render the footage at 100% out of AE and make sure to have interlacing turned off. Then reimport it – i t may look better and give you the ability to scale without artifacts.
No promises – this is a tricky area.
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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