Ben G unguren
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Not quite sure what you’re referring to; maybe this will give you some ideas for faking it?
https://www.karlklomp.nl/mda/still.htmlBen Unguren
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Yo don’t want old film — you want an old video look. Do an online search for “AE old video look” and you should find lots of good resources, e.g.:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/rewind-time-with-an-old-vhs-tape-style/Ben Unguren
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To get them as masks, you’ll need to copy in Illustrator, paste in AE. Note that you can copy a lot of masks at the same time, but it will take a while to get everything looking like it did in Illustrator, I imagine….
Ben Unguren
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If you have very contrasty graphics (deep blues against white, or deep reds against grey, e.g.) then most compressors, especially ones for online streaming, will struggle. H264 should work pretty well, but you’ll need to pull back the saturation and contrast a little bit (hard to know for sure without sample images).
There are other codecs out there, of course, but the best thing to do is try them out. I don’t mean to come across as mean-spirited or anything, but in my experience the key to finding the right compression is try, try, and try again — different codecs, different settings within a single codec, etc. For more important projects, I like to grab a 10-second sample of my footage that represents the whole pretty well, and spend a few hours fiddling with compression settings until I get something that balances a nice image with acceptable filesize.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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The filter is displacing the images that you have — it can’t create additional images of the guy walking horizontally for displacement, if that makes sense.
If you had shot this at, say, 1000 frames per second instead of 30 frames per second (a much more expensive project), then you’d have enough images to get a very smooth transition.
If you want, you can fake more in-between images with Timewarp: Slow down the footage and create interrim frames using pixelmotion. I’d suggest you render that out and reimport it into AE and try the time displacement again. (You don’t want to do it all in AE without the pre-render, as Timewarp would have to do its work on a lot of frames, and I imagine it would take a heckuva long time.)
Ben Unguren
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Plugins are easiest. There are a few on aescripts.com — I’ve used this one with success: https://aescripts.com/ft-cubic-lens-distortion/
If you want to do it yourself, you need three copies of your footage, then isolate the red, green, and blue channels on each respective layer (using the Shift Channels filter), then apply the Optics Compensation filter to the red and blue channels and distort them in opposite directions. Finally set each layer to an Add mode and they should combine back together properly, with aberrations in the chroma at the edges (depending on how much distortion you apply to the red and blue channels).
Ben Unguren
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If 24 is the only option you have then go for it, but make sure to preview the final result. What you want to look for is if the audio remains in sync, especially as you near the end of your video.
If you’re going to NTSC DVD, by the way, 720×480 is in fact the ONLY size you can use. Blu-Ray allows for larger resolutions, if you have it. A lot of people play DVDs on HD screens and don’t know the difference. But if they were to see it at 720P or 1080P, then they’d start to notice….
Ben Unguren
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One way is to make a layer that is ONLY shadow. Then you can use a mask to limit it to the ground, or make a separate layer with the mask and use it as an alpha matte for the shadow layer.
Ben Unguren
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Can you be more specific? I don’t know of any specific tutorials, but I also don’t quite understand what you mean by “old film” titles. Old as in 1970s, or as in 1910s? Can you post a sample of what you’re trying to achieve?
Ben Unguren
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The most glaring error in this is focus. Right now the girl is slightly out of focus, while the background is extremely crisp. You’d be hard pressed to get this kind of shot in real life. It looks like she was filmed with a zoomed-in lens, which would mean, were she the focal point, the background should be quite fuzzy. Or else she needs to be out of focus. But to have them both there, it doesn’t look right at all.
Some other points: the lighting doesn’t match — the background light is coming from the left (more or less) and she is lit from the right (more or less). Color: too much magenta and red in her image in contrast with the greens and cyans in the background.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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