Bill Kelly
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I don’t know if this will help, but you may want to try rendering it out as a Quicktime movie with the Animation codec. If this gives you the correct result, open up the movie with Quicktime pro and export it as an image sequence.
I’d first try just rendering out a few frames as a Quicktime movie to see if it works (so you don’t waste your time waiting for the full render if it doesn’t).
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Highlight the whole URL and paste in it your browser. Clicking the link doesn’t work because I didn’t put underscores in the file name instead of spaces.
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Okay, I saw your screencap. What you need to to is make the path in 3D space. Delete whatever path you have now. Select your 3D Stroke layer in the timeline. Turn it into a 3D layer. Select the pen tool. Change the view to Top View. Make the path go around and behind and then in front of your phone.
Your screencap looks like it’s CS3 you’re running. Here’s a CS3 project file with what I’m describing.
https://rendertainment.com/3D Stroke around object.zip
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Do you have the phone as a 3D layer? If it’s just 2D that’s your problem. If you do have it as a 3D layer, try moving it forward in Z space.
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For the side shot of the arm coming out of his mouth and staying that way while he’s moving around this is what I’d do. I’d shoot the arm on a green screen, key out the green, crop the arm to where I needed the length to be, and motion track the video. Something on the man’s head would be a good track point. After I got my tracking data I’d assign the position to a null object. Take the arm layer and pickwhip its position to the position data on the null object. Offset the arm layer so it’s lined up coming out of the mouth. That should put you pretty close. You might have to tweak some of the position keyframes a little bit if it doesn’t match up exactly.
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I think you’d need a program that downloads .flv files. You could google youtube downloaders, as that’s the same format youtube uses.
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Try this:
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
It’s like Google Earth, but you’re free to use most images without having to pay. You’ll have to read the disclaimers, but pretty much unless you’re using an add on to the basic program, you can use whatever you zoom in on.
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You should be able to do it with Trapcode’s plugin called Shine (www.trapcode.com). Download a demo and try it. You may also be able to do it with CC Light Rays in the Effects>Generate section. A lens flare if configured properly might do the job too.
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Another way to do it is to render your lens flare out of AE with the black background, and when you get into Final Cut, put it over top of your footage and right click, choose Composite Mode and select Screen. Screen mode takes the black background away.