Ben G unguren
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As far as I’ve been able to tell, it can’t be done in current releases of PPro. (I’ll venture a guess that you’re coming from FCP where this was common, eh?) I suspect this has been requested of Adobe — maybe I’ve requested it, can’t remember — but if you want to ask them for it, here’s the link.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Try adding a slight Gaussian blur. About enough that you notice it if you toggle it on and off, but wouldn’t think anything of it if you happened upon it. (fwiw, I add a slight blur to all my vector graphics and it makes a HUGE difference!)
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I’ve never used .mts files in mocha, so we’re it me, the first thing I’d try is to convert the .mts into a lossless .mov (with the Animation codec, or PNG video, for instance). I realize this is the sort of thing you are resisting, but you may want to export the SOURCE footage (in QT player, MPEG Streamclip, or Adobe Media Encoder) and use that, rather than exporting your edit, where resizing or other things can degrade the quality of the original. When I am working with RED proxies, I will export whatever needs to go to Mocha into an image sequence. Makes things a lot easier.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Think of your comp as the camera viewfinder. You can make your landscape much larger than what you see in the viewfinder. So your comp should be 1920×1080 but you can keep your landscape 12,000 pixels wide.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I bet you cab get a decent result with his hair and shirt (using key light, calculations, levels, etc). The skin, headphones, other bits and pieces will require rotobrush or mochaAE. If it were me I would think of this as a full roto job, and then be grateful that some of the stuff can be done procedurally. Then you are in a glass half-full situation!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Overall, I am with your partner on this one. When the effects are this heavy in each shot, you lean more on ae than on ppro. That said, here is another option: use the media manager in ppro to export your edited clips with, say, 1-second handles. Your ae guy can do the effects work on the exported clips, regardless of how you are editing things. Render the clips in ae, giving them a similar name (if the original were “joe001.mov” you would call it “joe001-fx1.mov”, then make a copy of your ppro project and replace your green screen clips with the new ones. Assuming he renders out the entire clip, you can do this in the project window, effectively replacing it for any sequences in your ppro project file. (thus the need to make a copy first!)
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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There’s an option when importing an image sequence in AE — I think it’s called “Force Alphabetical Order” — which will ignore any skipped frames. (Just make sure you are skipping frames evenly!)
Once you’ve imported your sequence, right click on your footage, “Interpret Footage –> Main…” and change your frame rate accordingly. For instance, if I were working in a 24fps project and rendered every 12th frame, then my sequence would be 2 frames per second.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I agree with Angie that you will get the best results working everything in AE. That said, a good approach to this is to make a 50% grey solid, apply grain/noise to it until you’re happy, render it to a high-resolution codec (like Animation or ProRes 444) then bring that into FCP and set it to the OVERLAY blend mode.
In Overlay, anything brighter than 50% grey will lighten the image, and anything darker than 50% grey will darken the image. Pure 50% grey does nothing. Your noise on the 50% grey will effectively lighten and darken your image with the graininess, and might be enough to get you through.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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You probably have the wrong keyframes (or sorts of keyframes, like a checkbox) selected. You could try the F9 key, which is the shortcut for easy ease. Use Shift+Cmd+F9 (or Shift+Ctrl+F9) for Easy Ease Out, and Cmd+F9 for Easy Ease In. Plain old F9 for both.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Not that you really want to do this, but you could do a relatively simple expression on the opacity. Just add a Checkbox Control effect to the layer, then give your opacity this expression:
if (effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox")==1) {
100;
}
else {
value;
}
Now when the box is ticked, the opacity will be 100%; when it is unticked, it will return whatever value the keyframes dictate.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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