Bruce Wainer
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i believe effects are applied after lights. Try precomping the text layer (with ‘move attributes into precomp’ selected), as AE will now treat the text as an image with an alpha channel, rather than text with effects applied. To change the text, just go into the precomp.
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nice merge of footage and motion type. I wish I know what was being said though!
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he had a comma in his link – https://www.flashxml.net/3d-carousel-menu.html – that should work.
as to the effect, I have no idea.
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did you try the 3D glasses effect?
I believe you put both clips on top of each other in a new composition, apply the effect to the top clip, and change the type of 3D to red/cyan. -
[Mikko Kovasiipi] “maybe it’s because of the CC Ball Action filter and how it makes the balls. It makes black borders to them so it looks a bit 3d or so.”
If that is the case, try the unmult effect (it should be included in AE). It is meant to remove black edges from multiplied footage, and should remove the fringing. I’d make the effect as an adjustment layer inside the CC Ball Action precomp(s).
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With a high enough bit rate, any video codec can be “almost” lossless – this may be what you are experiencing. however, only one pass through a compressed codec should/would not show major artifacts, it is when a file is compressed multiple times that you might be a problem. If the clip will only be compressed once or twice (to go into your editor and for delivery), you should be fine, but if multiple trips were made (add an effect in AE, cut two clips from AE together in your editor, export to AE to add more effects, and so on) each generation would have worse quality. You may not see it at first, but it will add up.
My other concern is the particular codec you are using. FLV and F4V are codecs invented for Flash on the web, not intermediate codecs for editing and compositing. I understand you want to save space, but there should be better codecs out there for you to use. Light compression (such as ProRes for Macs or MS-DV AVI on Windows [only for SD]) would be preferable to heavy compression, such as FLV, MP4 (the basis of F4V I believe), or WMV. The amount of space you save compared to the amount of compression applied (while maintaining quality) decreases as the file is compressed more, so even light compression (QT Photo-JPEG at high, for example) will save a lot of space.
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if you use a compressed file as your source in another application (such as your editing application), and then compress what comes out of that, the compression artifacts from the first pass will be re-compressed. I believe this is generational quality loss. After a few or more times being re-compressed, quality can be unrecoverable.
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Or on Windows, right click the window’s taskbar icon (button? label? I don’t know what to call it. The part of the taskbar that represents the AE window, with it’s icon and name [or just icon in Win 7]). Click on ‘move’, then use the arrow keys to reposition the window.
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No Joke! But, I haven’t ever gotten a virus myself, just removed them from relative’s computers.
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if you notice in Google Earth, as you move around, the bottom of the screen tells you who owns any part of the image you see in the window. At times, four or more different companies may own a portion of hte image you’re seeing. Google Earth stitches them together (as does Maps) to make what you see. I don’t know the specifics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d need permission from every SINGLE one of those companies. Since Google doesn’t actually own any of the images, I don’t believe it can give you any rights to use them. The NASA product should have none of these issues, but it may have less detailed (close in) images since most of the images will be sourced by NASA.