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In Illustrator you have to make sure that the clipboard preferences are set to paths (I don’t know the exact name as I don’t have Illus here). Then copy the path, go to AE, create a new solid and just create an empty mask. Doesn’t matter what sort. Now just highlight the mask shape and paste. Bingo! Now just set your mask to NONE so it doesn’t actually mask the solid and apply trapcode stroke.
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I don’t have access to AE right now but look for an effect called “Exposure” I believe it allows you to ramp the brightness in a similar way.
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Look into external eSATA drives also. Supported if you have a newish motherboard and the backup speed makes USB2.0 users cry. Don’t rely on hard drives for long term storage. For that look into some older DLT tape backup systems, or if you have the cash, LTO. For file sycronization google “syncback” who have a nice utility for keeping two drives mirrored.
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If you don’t need much control over the 3D path then trapcode 3d stroke can do it I believe. It can twist mask paths into 3D space.
For full control and distortion of pictures text etc along a path that you can fully define in 3D space – use a 3D application instead of AE.
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Dave, did you want to try a speed comparison with the dual output module method? Be interesting to see what results you get on your rig. So TIFF and QT at same time.
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As far as I’m aware there is no speed loss in having multiple outputs during the one render, except of course the time it takes to actually write the extra file. The idea is there are no extra rendering time though. So AE renders the frame and then outputs it in multiple formats.
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I might be misunderstanding the problem, but could you not also simply add you comp to the render queue and then have it output images sequences, but then add another output module from the menu to output a quicktime at the same time? One render, two outputs (or more if you wish).
Mind you, I didn’t know you could do this project-drag stuff rendernyc mentioned.
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I believe they are installed separately off the original install discs. Check the install menu.
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Note a big one on the list that Harm linked to is the Hard Drive specs. HD moves a lot of data and besides RAM and CPU it needs to get onto the drives fast. You didn’t mention your hard drive setup, but personally I would not even try to play with HD without RAID drives.
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I think you’re going about this the wrong way. You should use the ae tracker to track the position of the glass. However, if it is tilted and otherwise moved in a 3D way I think you’ll find yourself manually keyframing. Anyway. You need to animate the position of the tennis ball by keyframing it’s POSITION property so that it matches the glass movement. Unless I misunderstand you really don’t need to do anything to the glass layer, it’s all about animating the tennis ball to match the glass movement, whether that is through the tracker or you manually doing it frame by frame.
To sell the illusion you may have to play with the blending mode of the tennis ball as well as lighting and distortion if it’s to look like it’s IN the glass.
Alex
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