Andrew Bardusk
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What about rendering the quicktime out as a image sequence, and then importing that sequence and interpreting it however you’d like?
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Ok it’s a little late,
I had the exact same problem. And after googling I have actually found that Microsoft released a patch to help with this problem. And it worked for me.https://support.microsoft.com/kb/941282
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That is a placeholder that after effects uses when it can’t find an image anymore.
It looks like AE can’t find your .avi file, and put that placeholder there and that’s what you’re rendering into jpegs.
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When you import your PSD,you get a dialogue asking if you want to bring in your PSD as separate layers or as a flat image etc. Somewhere in there is a checkbox somewhere that says “live 3d photoshop comp” or something to that effect.
This is most likely the problem.
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The I track masks is I put all my masks on a solid, and then I connect the solid layer with all my masks on it to my track.
Then I take the footage and track matte it to the solid.
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Is your viewer quality set to “Full” not half or quarter?
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If your reference point goes out of frame, you can hold in alt and move your tracker to a new point. If you have done this correctly you will notice that the boxes have moved, but the crosshair stayed in the same place.
What this does is uses a new reference point to track, and applies the movement to your existing track.
I hope that helps.
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I would be suprised if that worked, but give it a try.
What I would do, is pull a really hard and crunchy key, just to fill her in as much as possible.
Then pull the softest key possible, by color dropping close to the subject. Then masking out any of the remaining blue screen that didn’t key. Try to use the clip black and white settings as little as possible to maintain some edge detail.That still won’t give you an acceptable key. But combining that with your roto, may help things go a little faster.
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Depending on how crazy you went with the handheld, you might be able to do a static(non animated) corner pin to give it the right perspective. And a simple 2 point Position and rotation track might just do the job.
If you need to animate the perspective, then I would still do the best position and rotation maybe even scale track that I could, and then hand animate the corner pin, to match the perspective.
That’s what I’d suggest right now without seeing your footage.
That being said, maybe boujou would work straight of the bat and be less painful. If you already have it, why not give it a shot?
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I find the 3d import borderline useless, like said above, it doesn’t interact with lights and shadows as a 3d layer. You have to animate a null that’s expressed to control it. And on top of that motion blur doesn’t work on them either(as far as I can tell).
So if you do a boujou track or bring in a 3d camera of any sort you still aren’t going to get motion blur.
So sure, it’s neat and a big step, I just don’t know when or why I’d ever use it.