[Andy Bentley]

This is great. I think it’ll do what I need. Thanks for letting me know about this awesome plugin.

[Andy Bentley]

And I will play around with my green screen setup to see if I can get your original idea to work.

No problem,
media3sixty5

[Andy Bentley]

If you havn’t already shot the interviews, the best thing to do would be to not do any zooming with your camera and take care of that in AE. Bring both layers (greenscreen shot and background clip) into AE, and key out the green from the greenscreen shot. Then you should make both layers 3d (hit the cube checkbox next to the layer’s name) and put the greenscreen shot right on top of your background footage. You should then add a new camera (file: new: camera) and do all of your zoomins and stuff there. This will give you much more control and much smoother zoomins than doing it manually with your camera.
As for your question about mattes and tracking, I have an idea, but I’m not exactly sure. You could put a few spots on your greenscreen and motion track them in AE, but the above method would be much better.

Hope this helps,
media3sixty5

[Andy Bentley]

The Radial blur effect wiil definately work for you, just follow the links in the previous post (if your even still visiting this sight). Also, to help you with your audio problem, I run AE on a sony Vaio dual prossessor and also have this problem occasionally. My best advice would be to open the audio file in Premiere if you have it (or any other program that will let you view the waveform, ie. Garage Band) and get familiar with the waveform of the file. Then open your waveform view in AE of your audio file and do your animating based on the waveform. If your trying to do somethind like animate to the beat of the music, this shouldn’t be too difficult with the waveform view. Post back if this helps just to let me know (and why don’t you give Creative Cow one more try, maybe subscribe to the podcast or something).

Glad to help if I did,
Andy

[Andy Bentley]

Unfortunately, there is absolutely no way to extrude objects in AE without a plugin and even if you extrude your picture in Illustrator, it will still import into AE as a flat image. But there is a way to import Illustrator files into AE. Simply go to file, import, and select the file that you want to import. Once you do that, a dialogue box will appear giving you some options for importing. If you want the layers to be seperated in AE just select import as: composition, and then tell it to import all the layers.

Hope this helps,
Andy

[Andy Bentley]

I,m not exactly sure what all those terms mean, but I might be able to help with the rotation thing. 1) Try adding motion blur to the objects in your scene (make sure the master motion blur is on). 2) Try adding a point light beside your object to give the object a little glow. I’m relatively new to this so beyond that, I got nothin’. You might try adding a little camera motion to your scene, but I don’t know if that’ll work for what your wanting to do. Anyway hope you can get your problem solved.

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