Brian Charles
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Even the Foundry’s Camera Tracker has a free 15 day trial…
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I’m sure you’ll get suggestions and tips involving Null objects and planar trackers — however what you need to record the translation of the 3D space is a camera tracker like the Foundry’s.
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/cameratracker/
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You enable the Disk Cache via preferences.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS155A1BB2-BB32-4833-A079-F8396553D7B0a.html
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Masks do persist but the Mask Path (the shape of the mask) can be keyframed. Typically this is how roto work is done prior to CS5’s Roto brush.
This may help:
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You can set the light intensity to 0 and in Particular change the Particles/sec modifier from Light Intensity to None, then use the regular Particles/sec property under Emitter.
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When you paste the path to the emitter do you see Roving Keyframes?
Is your path too small to register? Turn Directional Spread and Velocity Distrubution to 0.
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If you really want rounded 3D shapes you will need a 3D app or a plug-in like Zaxwerks Invigorator https://www.zaxwerks.com/invigorator_pro/index.shtml
On its own After Effects is not capable of anything but 3D rectangles.
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The Pixel Aspect Ratio you have selected is 1.33 so it will look stretched if you are working with square pixel sources in you project.
720 x 480 is the setting for NTSC DV, which has a PAR of .91.
See this:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f3aa.html
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Is there any way you can create a matte from a duplicate of the rock footage using the shift channels effect (or similar channel effects)? Then use that as an alpha matte for the one you want with blinking lights.
The fact that it illuminates may make it tricky…
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