Al
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PFTrack for sure. we’ve just used it to replace a bg in a multiple pass motion control shot… worked a treat, with HD, without much frigging around.
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Bellypants
‘What’s the difference between moving all attributes to the new comp and not doing it?’The difference comes down to why you are precomposing. for example, an instance where you’d want your attributes moved to a new comp is if you have an effect on a layer that also has a mask. some effects will not ‘read’ the mask — so it needs to be precomped with the attributes sent off to the new comp.
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3D
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you shouldn’t have any problems rendering, but —
what are your comp settings? sometimes you may not be able to render very large comps (say, 5000 x 4000) – but if you’re working normal pal or ntsc then you should be fine. the best thing to do if you’re worried is do a test render.
if you find AE is crashing when you render from memory issues; there’s two things you can.
firstly, render targa sequences (so you can pick off on the render where you took off)
and secondly, access the secret preferences menu and purge your memory every few frames (do this by pressing SHIFT when accessing preferences, and there’s a last page called Secret)
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the trick seems to be matching the camera move. whether they got the camera data and used that to match it; or did it by eye (my guess would be latter). really all the text is doing is rotating at the same speed as the camera, so it wouldn’t be difficult to dummy…
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my comment was tounge in cheek, not intended to be offensive, so my apologies if it was taken as such.
“I’ll just aimlessly try stuff untill I get what I want instead of trying to learn practical techniques.”
that’s exactly, it, nail on the head. the amount of time i have spent experimenting, trying new things etc. far outweighs the time i have spent learning ‘practical techniques.’
if you’ve already been through the meyer books, then you’ve presumably got a solid grasp of the program.
from there, my advice is to experiment. otherwise known as wasting time.
it can often help experimenting if you’re being paid, or at least someone is asking for something… it can give you a bit more focus.
otherwise, if you’re wanting to know how to do a specific effect on the forum, post a link/frame grab and ask for specific advice…
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sounds like you’re in need of one of the new keyboards with the F89 button. works similiar to previously mentioned ‘Make It Look Great’ plug in.
if you’re looking for a book, the chris + trish meyer books are excellent.
and streams of feathery lights can be achieved with an experimental combination of moving mattes, overlays and blurs.
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no that’s not unusual, we all work with blocky edges 🙂 kidding; it sounds like a problem with what you’re rendering as rather than how you’re interpreting it. what’s your render setting?
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have you looked at the text animation presets?
go to Help>Animation Preset Gallery
there is a bunch of them, and you can see them in action before you apply them to your layer
If it’s not there, and you’re looking for a specific effect, it’s better to post a link…
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definately try any save timing technique over roto work. remember that you can use keying to keep parts of your image, not just delete them, which may work to your favour depending on the colours/vision your working with. remember you can use multiple keys on the same piece of vision. remember if everything keys except the eyes for example, it’s quicker to garbage mask roto an eye back in – than to abandon every everything and roto the whole thing… and testing with a quick colour key isn’t the best indication of whether it will key or not. spend some time (5 mins?!) with each keyer (all work differently) and make a decision. if you’ve spent 1 hour testing techniques, but it’ll take you four hours to roto the dude, then it’s time well spent, whether it works for you or not.