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Not to diss on the great resources at the COW, but for blender, you should spend some time at the blenderartists.org forum. Some amazing discussions and ideas there — when I first started using Blender I visited the page at least daily for over a year. Immense help.
Ben Unguren
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Here’s another tutorial that could prove very useful for your project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OOOp6nB-4oBen Unguren
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if you’re only seeing it on a monitor, it sounds to me like your monitor is displaying the image with fields and your video is outputting frames (no fields). Another possibility is that your project is 24, the monitor is playing 30 and thus adding 3:2 pulldown, but has the field order backwards….
Have you tried rendering out the animation and previewing it via a video editor? Or burning to DVD/BluRay and watching it?
Ben Unguren
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I’d try doing the main camera animation, then nest that in a new comp, duplicate your comp, mask it with a small box, scale it up and move it to the corner, etc. Would that work?
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Take your text animation minus the animated mask, then nest that into a new composition. Apply the mask to the nested comp, or use a track matte.
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When you collapse transformations, the influence of adjustment layers are ALWAYS carried into the nested comp. (Unless the adjustment layer isn’t visible, etc, in which case it doesn’t have any effect in any of the comps.) This is very useful when you want to use chains of effects repeatedly (you can make multiple adjustment layers, put them in a nested comp, collapse transformations, dup to your heart’s content). In my experience, there is s way to work around the issue you’re experiencing most of the time, but the solution will change each time, depending on the situation. I can’t give much advice without more details on what you’re doing….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I’d go to a college library and look for books with old illustrations — books with expired copyrights (stuff from the early 1900s etc). I’d scan or photograph those pages, then use those as the basis for my scene.
Since you’re working in AE you probably are going to end up with “Planar” 3D buildings — is that the idea?
Ben Unguren
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Have you tried stabilizing with MochaAE first? Mocha’s tracker works differently than point tracking (I haven’t used Camera Tracker yet so I’m not certain how it holds up against MochaAE.) Depending on your shot, this could help stabilize some of the more extreme camera bumps and might help the camera tracker come up with a better solution….
Ben Unguren
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Use Mocha for the masking as well as the corner pin! Mocha is designed to act this way. You motion track to get the right movement (via corner pin, for instance) but then you can use that tracking data to create an accurate rotoscope of the area where the properly moving footage is placed.
Two exports from Mocha: one with the corner pin, one with the mask. Obviously you’ll have to do some extra work in Mocha to make the mask, but it’s soooooo much easier in Mocha than in AE.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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The “heavy reverb” sounds to me like two separate (but otherwise identical) audio tracks that are slightly out of sync with each other. Do you have more than one audio track running side by side?
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