[Barend Onneweer]

Box Blur at 3 iterations is identical in quality and ‘look’ to Gaussian blur – although the ‘blurriness’ and ‘blur radius’ parameters don’t match: i.e. Gaussian Blut at 5 looks more like Box Blur with 3 iterations at a Blur Radius of 1.8.

So Box Blur does everything Gaussian Blur does, and more.

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Twixtor and Timewarp are not based on the same code.

Timewarp is based on Kronos software licensed from The Foundry, and Twixtor is developed by Re:VisionFX.

I usually get better results with Twixtor – but occasionally Timewarp does better. Twixtor Pro has elaborate tools to help the software solve complex shots but I have no experience with those.

Barend

[Barend Onneweer]

With After Effects the efficiency depends on the type of effects you’re using and how well they can be multithreaded. But Cinema 4D will definitely make good use of your 12 cores.

[Barend Onneweer]

It’s called light leak – usually achieved by overlaying footage of light leakage (if you opened the can of exposed film before it was developed) on top of the video.

Artbeats has light leak stock footage, but if you take a close look you might get reasonably close playing around with colored solids and animated masks.

https://www.artbeats.com/footage/search?keywords=light+leak

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Ha! That’s actually more than I expected, so thanks again. Being able to burn project name into the picture would also be helpful, but this is not bad for a start. Now that I do a lot of work in Assimilate Scratch, After Effects looks somewhat metadata-impaired…

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Works like a charm… Thanks!

Greedy as I am I’m now wondering if I can burn in things like the AE project name and possibly the current date… But I’m guessing that expressions don’t have direct access to things like that?

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

To be more precise: I’ve got this expression working that displays layer name and source name, but how do I get the framecounter to work in this scheme?

layer_name = "";
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
if (i == index) continue;
my_layer = thisComp.layer(i);
if (! (my_layer.hasVideo && my_layer.active)) continue;
if (time >= my_layer.inPoint && time < my_layer.outPoint){
try{
layer_name = my_layer.name;
}catch(err1){
layer_name = my_layer.name
}
break;
}
}

source_footage_name = "";
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
if (i == index) continue;
my_layer = thisComp.layer(i);
if (! (my_layer.hasVideo && my_layer.active)) continue;
if (time >= my_layer.inPoint && time < my_layer.outPoint){
try{
source_footage_name = my_layer.source.name;
}catch(err1){
source_footage_name = my_layer.name
}
break;
}
}

layer_name + " " + source_footage_name

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Ah.. waitaminute, it was set to work with layermarkers and I was using comp markers. No problem, it works now.

Another question.

Let’s say I’d like to get some more data rendered into text, like source clip names for top layers and comp timecode. I can use multiple text layers of course, but how would I go about combining for instance timecode and the clip frame counter into one?

Thanks,

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Hi Dan, thanks, but I keep getting “0” as the output when I paste this into the source text expression.

Barend

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects

[Barend Onneweer]

Oh boy, that’s so simple it’s embarrassing (for me). Thanks!

Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects