Bill Kelly
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If you have Final Cut 6 or Shake, you can use the Smoothcam filter. I’d stay away from the Stabilize filter in Shake because, like in AE, you have to set tracking points. The Smoothcam filter compares each frame to the previous frame and makes adjustments based on that to stabilize the footage. The down side in that your footage will have to be enlarged after the Smoothcam to take away the black space that’s generated by moving frames up and down, left and right, to make the image stable. In FCP’s Smoothcam it’s done automatically. In Shake you have to do it manually after the filtering.
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Since you’ll be hooking up the LCD as an external monitor, try playing straight from Final Cut using Desktop Cinema Preview – Full Screen. This setting will show the full screen video on your second monitor. The bad news is that it’s not full resolution, but about half. HD stuff usually still looks pretty good when you do this, but not as sharp as you’d be used to seeing on an external HD monitor. The good news is that it shouldn’t skip.
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Put in the old version CD or DVD and click on Setup. From there you should have the choice to Repair or Uninstall. Run the uninstaller and then you should be fine to run the CS3 setup. I had a similar issue.
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You can make those swishes with Trapcode 3D Stroke or could probably get something similar using the regular Stroke effect (Effects–Generate–Stroke). Keyframe the start and end paramaters and use the tapering as well. Apply a little glow effect and that’s pretty much it.
Take a few of the tutorials:
https://trapcode.com/products_3dstroke.html
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I’m running 10.5.2, After Effects CS3, and QT 7.1.4 and haven’t had any problems. I also did the After Effects 8.0.2 update from Adobe.
Like you, I too was being cautious. Luckily, the posting on the Cow alerted me to the 7.4 update before I installed it. After 7.1.4 came out, there seemed to be posts indicating it had fixed the problem. I waited about a week or so, and not hearing any horror stories, decided to take the plunge. Everything I’ve tried seems to work okay so I’d say you’d be okay to upgrade.
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You could probably get some good engine exhaust from Andrew Kramer’s frosty breath tutorial. It’s pretty much the same principle you would use to simulate engine exhaust. I believe he uses Trapcode Particular to do it, but with a little modification it shouldn’t be hard to use the particle generators that come standard with After Effects to do it.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=96
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I’d try ProRes 422.
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On the tags in the youtube video, two of the words are particle and illusion, so I’m guessing that’s what he used. You’d also have to duplicate the original video layer, put it on top of the explosion, and do some masking around the foreground areas so that the explosion would appear to be taking place farther from camera.
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You might want to check this out, then follow the post on the YouTube link. This dude got incredible quality by YouTube standards.
https://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,198547,198547#msg-198547