Andy George
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David
One of the demos the studio used moved a camera down a dank, dingy hallway of green textures, as vines grew along the walls.
It seems I remember seeing some images like this over at
https://www.videocopilot.net/-Andy
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Hi Henriette,
If I understand you correctly you are applying an expression to link object “A” and your audio
and the expression is overriding previously animated parameters in object A?Depending on what exactly you want to do-
You could precompose object A and then apply your expression to the precomp-
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Try Parenting object A to your music null rather than
using an expression.-Andy
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Hi Chris,
I think your getting true 16:9 and anamorphic
confused. NTSC is not capable of displaying
a 16:9 image in the same manner as HD.NTSC video only comes in 1 aspect ratio. 4:3.
Because of these restrictions think of this as a workaround to
put a 16:9 image into a 4:3 frame. That workaround is called Anamorphic widescreen.The 16:9 data is horizontally squeezed
to fit into the 4:3 frame (squashed like you say) and we need to tell AE
to un-squeeze it so that we can view it as it was intended.The proper way to do this is as Simon stated.
NOTE: It might initially look squashed in AE because the programme by default shows everything on screen in square pixels, but if you toggle the button in the bottom right of the composition panel (hover over them one by one and you’ll find the one you’re looking for), you can correct the view to 16:9 so you can see what you’ll expect to see on the DVD...by making the source video bigger is that making the pixels bigger and worse??
Yes.
You do not want to scale your video in any way if you want to maintain the highest quality.
.also if i do export in quicktime as 720×480 and then import into FCE do you know if I have to make that footage anamorphic in FCE to get 16:9 result ??????Again its just a matter if setting your FC timeline up for it to
interpret your anamorphic footage correctly. Dragging and dropping a clip
into a new timeline should prompt you to set the timeline with the same properties
as your rendered clip.BTW you can set up your compositions in AE in a similar fashion by dragging and dropping
your video footage into the “make new comp” button at the bottom of your project panel.
AE sets up a new composition based on the length and format of your footage.This process of stuffing 16:9 into 4:3 continues to happen every step along the way.
When you create your DVD the DVD software will put a flag on your 4:3 content telling the
DVD player to correctly interpret the footage again.-Andy
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Hi Bill,
Yes there are a handful of ways to go about it.
The easiest/cheapest route is probably a script like this one
https://aescripts.com/3d-layer-distributor/Here is a video on how to install scripts at the
same sight if you are new to them
https://aescripts.com/faq/how-to-install-and-run-scripts/You could also use expressions. Here is a relevant thread
on the expression forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/4152#4159Here is a plug-in that does layer distribution.
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/planespace/Or you could use a particle effect like shown in this tutorial-
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/birnholz_rob/red_giant_3d_montage.php-Andy
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Hi Henriette,
There are many tutorials on the topic. The top two in this
list are probably the most relevant for what you are trying to
do. Although he uses a plug-in to extract the keyframes from
the audio, the same can be done using AE’s built in tools as the
other tutorials show.https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/6/
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/5/https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/audio_to_animation/
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/drozda_jerzy/SmartVolumeMeter.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/al_khatib_talid/volume_meter.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kahlenberg_roland/led.php-Andy
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Dustin,
If you twirl open your pick-whipped Z property to reveal the expression on your “seperate xyz”
effect. Add a minus sign to the beginning of the expression to reverse the motion.Should look something like this
-thisComp.layer(“Green Solid 1”).transform.position[0]
-Andy
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Hi Dustin,
A handfull of ways to go about it. One would be to apply the “Seperate XYZ position”
animation preset to the layer that you only want to move along the z.Pick whip the Z position only
to your audio Keyframe layer.-Andy
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If your ultimate goal is layer controll
check out this script for tagging layers.https://aescripts.com/zorro-the-layer-tagger/
-Andy
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Hi Ron,
I thought the active camera would render, but it’s not so.
It is so. The active camera is the topmost camera in your stack.Not to be confused with setting a camera from “active camera” to say “camera 2”
in your composition window.
This only allows you to view from the perspective
of “camera 2” but does not actually change which camera is the active camera.I’ve got to, apparently, turn off the camera in the comp (if it’s above the camera I want). Is that correct?
Correct. Or move it lower in your stack.-Andy