[Bobby Yarsulik]

Could even doing a layer over the entire piece of glass just outside the border, and then an inner layer that doesn’t track within the inside of the glass just inside the edge do any better with the footage you already have?

I had an issue with a television screen earlier this week, and this helped tremendously.

[Bobby Yarsulik]

I could be completely misunderstanding how this works, but could continuously rasterizing keep the resolution of your corner pin comp?

[Bobby Yarsulik]

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to make sure that the question was clear.

So I’ve got a scene that I used 3d Camera Tracker with, and export the data into a C4D file. I’ve added the rolling coin in Cinema 4D lite, and going back and forth between C4d and AE, I can see the coin I’ve added and it’s rolling animation. Great!

However, I’m not sure how to do a “Shadow Catching” object in C4D that renders invisible but still will show the shadows in AE.

Thanks again for any tips or helpful info!

[Bobby Yarsulik]

Was doing some searching because I don’t personally know how to achieve this, but it looks like someone may have included a project file in this post on Video Copilot that may achieve what you are looking for!

https://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=40384

edit: Although it looks like he is using particular, so I’m not sure if that is required or if you can use the stock particle plugins or not!

[Bobby Yarsulik]

That was amazingly and miraculously simple! Thank you so much for the reply.

[Bobby Yarsulik]

Looks like you are on the right track. Personally, I’m pretty new to AE, and still learning. It looks like you could add some smoke or splats that are the same color as your smoke. It looks like in the movie trailer, there are some composite like splashes or overlays that are dark colored to make it look like the charcoal exploded when it got dragged across the paper.