Bill Kelly
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I think this tutorial by maltannon is exactly what you want.
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/simple-camera-rig/
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Andrew Kramer’s tutorial on Speed Variation will show you how to get good results using pixel motion.
https://videocopilot.net/tutorials/speed_variation/
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If you still want to use the denoiser, turn it back on, then precompose your green screen layer. Now draw your mask on the precomposed layer and it should work.
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There’s a few stores on pricegrabber that are selling After Effects CS3 Full Version.
Here’s a link and you can look from there:
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Whoops never mind, I just reread and saw you said everything is shape layers. My bad 🙁
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By transcoding I mean changing your footage to a different codec than HDV. AE and HDV don’t get along really well. Export your HDV footage as Apple Pro Res if you’re on a Mac with Final Cut Pro, or try the Animation codec if you’re on Windows.
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In the Render Que, right below the render bar, there’s a little menu that you can click called Current Render Details. Click it down and start your render. It gives you a blow by blow account of what is rendering at that moment. Whichever layer it gets slowed down on will be obvious, because it will be displayed for a long time.
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Ya the reason I suggested rendering out the comp as HD, then rendering that was that he said when he took the HD comp and dropped it in an SD, it messed up the precomps. If it doesn’t mess up the precomps then the one render method is the way to go.
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Two different things I can think of to try, no guarantee either will work though.
1. If your project is 8 bit, try switching it to 16 bit.
2. Transcode your footage to something other that HDV and reimport it.
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I’m not all that active in the forum answering questions, but I do read through it almost every day, even on the weekends. I’ve noticed as well the increase in “noob” type questions. I say, hey, if people have questions, let ’em ask!
I would say answer the question and mention that there is a forum for beginners, and that they should direct future questions over there until they know the program well enough that they could actually come in to the main forum and answer other people’s questions.
That being said, maybe there’s a place for an “advanced member” forum for people that have been members here for a year or more, or can be invited in. I’m a member of a message board (sports related) that has a hidden “premium member” board that you have to be invited into, and the motto of the premium board is “The first rule of Premium — is that you don’t talk about Premium —“. Kind of like Fight Club I guess.
I found this board back when I was just a lowly editor. I got into After Effects a couple years ago kicking and screaming when they let our graphics people go. Now I actually enjoy AE thanks mainly to this forum, VideoCopilot, and a lot of practice.
As to the comment about nobody reading the manuals, I remember when I first started editing, many a day taking the Avid (and later Final Cut) manual with me to the facilities for a nice long read. Those were the days!