Bob Woodhead
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COW Coins
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Why thanks Jason. I don’t even have a formal project yet… I’m doing preproduction research so when it comes to the script/shoot I haven’t painted myself into a corner, effects-wise. aka, “seemed like a good idea at the time”!
What I’ll have is some tracked positional data, translation only – rotation and scale aren’t necessary I think. And a Bezier curve (dotted line) with one end manually animated, and the other end getting the XY tracking data.
I was hoping to put time into it this morning, but had 5 other projects get in the way. And I wonder why I never have the time to get expert in AE…..
W/O having spent the time I need to on Rope, I’m wondering if it can work with say 1 out of 3 nodes on a Bezier curve (or maybe just 2)? Imagine a simple half sine wave curve, it can be defined by as few as 2 nodes. So if Rope can “drive” that, the solution is there. Though in a perfect world there’d be more complexity to the curve, and the tracking data “pulls” one end…. now that I think about it, EXACTLY like inverse kinematics in 3D. yeah, that!
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Yeah, I’m playing with ConnectLayers right now…. a bit rusty in AFX, so it’s going slow.
Still searching for some kind of “line” plugin that uses points that could be null-driven (from a track path).
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That’s right, not masking anything, this will be a visible line connected at one end to the tracked phone in the hand, and the other end of the line connects to a “thought bubble”.
Would a puppet point distort the line in an odd way? That is, I’d want the line to love as if I was simply animating one end vertex.
Maybe there’s another approach…. how about applying track data to a point in a plugin that creates a line? So there’s direct keyframe access to the point (unlike a shape vertex).
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Yeah, the above comments, ya can’t fix “garbage in”. How about treating the footage heavily so there’s something else to distract the viewer from the focus.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Just download the free Canon codec plugin. Don’t start without it! My partner didn’t realize one was needed, started a project, and then a ways in had big performance issues. Plugin solved it, but he needed to re-import.
We use the C300 and love the image! Got a shoot next week with it all rigged out; Steadicam, wireless focus & video, Zeiss CP2 primes….. yummm!
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Take a look at Backups for FCPX. Great cheap tool to handle both your questions. But even with that, I still use duplicate copies of timelines for versioning (beyond the “try that” scenario).
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option-s expands audio, allowing the selection of video-only for trans. not as good as an option, but better than detaching audio
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Thanks for that, Oliver. Imagine what the results will be with the MacProTrashcan and an optimized version of FCPX.
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Just came across this question months later, so hopefully you’re got notification turned on. 😉
Use “open in timeline” command on the clips in question (already edited into storyline). You can range-adjust levels to your heart’s content. I’ve found that using blade tool doesn’t work. (Unfortunately, as I’d rather do it that way.)
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Lust.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
CMX-Quantel-Avid-FCP-Premiere-3D-AFX-Crayola
“What a long strange trip it’s been….”