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I’m having trouble opening this link from where I am at the moment, but it sounds like it’s Spike’s music video that was shot with motion control rigs. The cameras would make two passes, once with skaters doing their tricks on green boards, a second pass exactly the same with no-one in the shot. Then it was just a basic key and clone of the two shots.
People have imitated this with rotoscoping but usually the shots aren’t as elaborate or have complex camera moves like Spike’s clip because, well, not everyone can afford to set up motion control rigs.
Alex
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Sorry to say this, but that is an incredible ambiguous question. What do you want the plug-ins to do? There are no “make it look cool” plug-ins as they all have specific tasks. For example, Trapcode have a range of awesome plugins, but they won’t help you much with colour correction.
It depends a lot on what you want to achieve, and what it’s worth to you. Is there any more info you can give us – there’s seriously hundreds of plugins and a lot of them have a specific function so it’s difficult to say “here, buy this one”.
Alex
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Agree with the rest. All looks pretty much 2.5D with some clean cut-outs. If you watch the stairwell by scrubbing frames back and forth you’ll see if doesn’t actually change perspective relative to itself confirming the cut-out. They also use a lot of cuts to keep things moving before you pick out the illusion. The technique is old, but what they have done with it is very clean and tight – I like it.
Alex
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Check out “Twixtor” by RE:Vision. Very good for what it is.
Alex
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Easily possible in C4D, although a bit overkill in my opinion. In C4D I would just stick a reflective glass layer over your screenshot, just like iPods etc have. As the camera moves the glass will reflect the surroundings which you can texture onto a global sphere. Either use the lighting off HDRI or fake it with some point/area lights to give the specs.
In AE you can do the same thing on a slightly lower-tech level. Just stick another layer over the top holding your environment, add another layer for speculars which you can create with the Ramp or circle effect, and then it’s just a matter of blend modes and animating the layers position in a fashion that would mimic real life. This means you could do it all in AE but would require cheating. C4D would give you free realism as it does all the calculations for you.
Good luck.
Alex
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I don’t think I can ever recall AE on XP dynamically updating it’s font library. I have also worked on systems that use font management tools and none of them seem to affect whether AE sees the fonts ‘live’ so to speak. Always had to close and re-open.
Would also be very interested in hearing if there is a solution or whether it’s just how AE starts up and does it’s one and only font check then.
Alex
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The fact you mention the stutter happens at different points makes me think it’s a playback issue and not render. That is a hefty frame size so I would try a few things. Render it out as AVI as well and see if another play has the same problem. Also, render out 200pixel wide version of it (same height) and see if that plays smoothly, just to see if it’s a data bottleneck with the frame size in the player.
What is your final delivery medium? TV, PC, Cinema?
Alex
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Hi,
Please check this article which should explain things and also give an example script which is very useful for speed control.
https://generalspecialist.com/2006/06/ae-presets-smooth-vertical-scrolls-for.asp
Good luck.
Alex
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Looking good!
Keep us updated with further improvements.
Alex
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I’m also on the camera tracking wagon for this one. In some episodes you can even see that the trackers slipped when the titles reach the edge etc.
Check out https://www.ssontech.com/learning.htm which is a FAQ on camera tracking by a company that wrote a very affordable and usable camera tracker and also now support AE imports of the camera data. If you watch the video tutorials you’ll hopefully quickly understand the concept behind it – faster than me writing pages of explanation 🙂
Alex