Bill Kelly
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Maybe bring in your photoshop file and use the Mesh Warp effect? I would thinking keyframing the Mesh Warp might accomplish what you’re looking to do.
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Another thing to think about if you’re going to be creating text/graphics and working in DV (widescreen or not): You’ll be sizing everything for a 720×480 space. When you online with your HDV tapes, you’ll be working in a 1920×1080 space for output. As a result, anything you created will be smaller than it looked when you created it in DV space and you’ll have to redo/upsize your graphics.
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Couldn’t you just keyframe the entire layer to scale down as the meteor gets farther away from the camera? Then it would all scale down uniformly.
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The easiest way is to green screen the artist. Edit all your background footage and desaturate it, then key your artist over the top. Basic green screens are pretty cheap. Just make sure you light well so you don’t get shadows on the green screen and the keying should be fairly easy.
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You may be able to motion track the boat and parent the mask to the tracker data. Even if it’s not a perfect match, it would be easier to just have to make adjustments to the mask on a frame by frame basis after it was tracked.
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If you go to the Output settings on your Kona control panel, there should be a drop down box that lists your downconvert options. There should be an edge crop setting. I think by default it’s on letterbox.
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Another thing you could try is to isolate the area where the bride and groom say their vows as David suggested, then drop the Compressor filter on it (Effects
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I’m running 6.0.1 on a Dual 1.8 GHz with 3 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600 XT graphics card. Everything runs fine, including Color.
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**Tip from my post directly above**
When you’re putting the composition together in AE and your cutout is not quite perfect (say the edges aren’t perfect or are a little blurry), use Effects>>Matte>Simple Choker on the layer. Usually around 1.0 to 2.0 as a setting works well, but obviously it will vary depending on your cutout.
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This is what you’re looking for:
https://www.adobeevangelists.com/aftereffects/The3DPIctureTrick.pdf
Warning!! I took this tutorial a while back and it’s kind of addicting after you get the hang of it. Now, every time I put a still in a video, I want to 3D it. Use at your own risk!!