Brian Tetamore
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Thank you for the link. Once you know what it’s called, it’s a lot easier to find isn’t it?
Appreciate the response.
The Visual Rabbi
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Well, now that I know what the technique is called – Tilt Shift – I found a web site tutorial. Here’s a link.
https://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php
The Visual Rabbi
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The mirror effect doesn’t quite seem to work. I’m probably not explaining this very well. The post from Don Sciore on looping a single image is the right idea.
The problem is that I’m hoping to create the illusion that the Camera is moving Right to Left/Tracking along a landscape in a looped sequence. So, the end result would be the same as a looped still image, HOWEVER, I have multiple layers in 3D that form the landscape (mountains and trees) with snow falling.
Is this effect not possible?
The Visual Rabbi
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The majority of the project is in 8bit uncompressed NTSC. It’s a feature that includes a custom intro, graphics, text, music, and the animations. It’s presented on DVD, but portions will be uploaded to their web site.
I’m assuming that next time I should ask the animation company to be sure to send an interlaced version, correct?
I was thinking that FCP and Motion would handle the formatting correctly. I guess that’s not the case.
The Visual Rabbi
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yeah. I created a copy of the Motion Project and changed the project settings to NO fields. Then mastered that out as animation NO flds, and in FCP created a sequence using Animation NO Flds (needed to add music) and then mastered that out as QuickTime Conversion Animation No flds and finally formatted to mpeg2 using compressor. The results are better that what I was getting, although there are a couple areas where you still have some slight skipping. Maybe it’s just the limitation of NTSC video?
The Visual Rabbi
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yes, good question. I asked the production company to format ntsc and lower fields. And the info in Quicktime player says 29.97 fps, and in Final Cut “Info” says it’s lower field. However, I don’t see fields. And when I import the original file into Compressor the Info pane says it’s progressive frames.
My assumption is that it is not interlaced.
The Visual Rabbi
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Thank you so much. I knew I was totally missing something very simple.
The Visual Rabbi
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The LitePanels look awesome. I can’t wait to give them a whirl. Thanks for the great feedback everyone. Very helpful.
Brian Tetamore
TheVisualChurch.comThe Visual Rabbi
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Maybe I’m learning and posting at the same time. I changed the Z position keyframes to linear rather than trying to set them for Easy In and Easy Out. That seems to have settled the inter-frame issue. So, I assume my learning problem is understanding how to use the Easy In/Out feature without screwing up the movement.
Any tips are appreciated.
The Visual Rabbi
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Yeah, I ended up printing the image on paper and then shooting stills of the process of crumpling the paper. I’m playing with the length of each image in the timeline and their spacial relationship to each other so it looks organic.
I found footage of crumpling paper on istockphoto.com, but overlaying my images on it just wouldn’t look right at all. it did however, confirm that doing it by stop motion was the right way.
As usual, I was looking for a short cut.
Thanks for the suggestion.
The Visual Rabbi