Alex Kuzelicki
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Ahhh!
Thank you.
Why didn’t I think of that? (so many answers to that question)
Appreciated,
ALEX
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Hey,
The music vid is not due to be released for awhile yet, but the Producer has put up a website that will lead up to it. I think he’s going to post a movie-type ‘trailer’ soon – though I’m not sure if there will be any of the comic backdrops in that one.
Check it out though, if you’re interested:
Cheers,
ALEX
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Cool.
Thanks guys.
Will try out the suggestions.
Appreciated,
ALEX
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Hey guys,
Thanks for your replies.
You’re right, ‘crappy’ is pretty open to interpretation. I just mean’t ‘low-rez looking’ (oh damn, that might be another one).
As you both mentioned, the Devil was in the Render settings. I had a hunch it was, on account, of that devilish-red render line leering out at me.
I went back and made another project, this time making SURE it was set to exactly what I was importing… and this time it was fine (silly me). I had changed the settings from another format, in another project, in my first try, so perhaps there was some little thing I hadn’t noticed (?).
Anyway, all seems fine now. I did, however, get to learn something new about Quicktime (thanks for that), and also a bit about… hair (hee hee).
I appreciate your help a lot.
Thanks,
ALEX
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Hey,
Comic Life isn’t a plug-in (it’s a stand-alone program) but it’s very cool and very easy to learn.
You can set up panels and speech bubbles, etc in minutes then export the image files to a multitude of high-rez formats.
You can also import images from video to ‘treat’ in endless combinations of comic book looks. The best part about it really is how easy it is to use.
We just made a music vid that uses the good old, ‘comic book panels as backgrounds’ (what an original idea, ha ha). Looks great though and took no time to set up with Comic Life.
Highly recommend it (and no, I’m not getting a commission).
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
ALEX
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Cool.
Thanks Aahron. Will check out the forums.
Much luck,
ALEX
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Thanks for the suggestions, Jeff.
Have pretty much done all of them – out of necessity – as I’ve progressed through this ‘very big’ project.
It’s a music vid and I’m trying to do a ‘finish’ in AE – as suggested by Stu Maschwitz in his DV Rebel’s Guide – to avoid any visual loss through compression.
I do miss the speed of Final Cut though – the rendering time in AE kills me!
It’s all a grand experiment though. I’m going to do a comparison of a final render in AE as compared to a re-render in Final Cut (of all the composited shots) and see if there really is that much of a visual difference between the two.
I really do prefer just bringing in specific shots where needed in AE, but apparently taking them back out to Final Cut and re-rendering for a finished cut will noticeably degrade my footage. Will see.
Would be interested to know what other people’s workflows are for maintaining optimum quality in the final output.
Appreciated,
ALEX
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Hey moldyboot,
You know what?
You were right!
It was just Moving All Attributes into a Precomp.
For some reason, every time I Precomped I ‘thought’ I was doing this but I was Leaving All Attributes with the source layer.
I can’t explain my brain-lapse here – I did this test about three times and each time I ‘saw’ the Attributes as moved into the Precomp… but obviously they weren’t.
Must be going senile.
So thanks, and sorry, at the same time.
Much appreciated,
ALEX
PS – I only discovered this by accident, when I noticed that the Scale of the Precomp was over 100%. It bugged me so I thought “I’ll just do ONE MORE test” and… real problem discovered: human error!
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Hi moldyboot,
Thanks for the ideas.
With the Precomp I did Move All Attributes into it, and I did scale the BG within the Precomp itself.
Also, the Light Wrap effect doesn’t scale the BG at all – it just basically sticks to whatever the original background size was.
As you can imagine, this isn’t very useful as (if the BG is originally smaller than the FG) your Light Wraps only cover a portion of the foreground footage.
I do have a workaround: which is to render out all my backgrounds at their new dimensions… but that just seems like a whole lot of extra work for a plug-in that I bought because it was a ‘one-click wonder’.
There must be something I’m missing here?
Hope there’s an answer out there in Cow-land.
Thanks again,
ALEX
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Rork, I’d like to buy you a drink… it’s just that I live in Australia.
Thanks so much for this simple tip.
Believe it or not, it’s changed the way I work: has added precious minutes of (saved) time to my every AE session.
Very much appreciated,
ALEX
PS – Mind if I have that drink on your behalf?