Chris Ellingworth
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Sorry for not being more thorough. Thanks for your assistance. The solutions that I’ve found are:
1. Try and export in 2k or 4k so that I get the VP9 codec rather than the crappy avc1 codec that YouTube normally tries to give.
2. Increase the bitrate to 2 or 3 times the YouTube recommended bitrate.
3. Schedule the video publish date to give YouTube more time to process the video.
4. Add mild noise / grain to the image if people have static parts to their video so that YouTube gives more data to those areas of the image.
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Nothing bothers me about the export, it’s the way it looks in YouTube that I’m trying to improve by exporting it with settings that might help it to look better. It’s ok, I think I found the information that I’m looking for.
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Brilliant! Thanks so much for your help!
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Thank you. I see my problem was that I had the random statement in the same expression as the opacity ‘if statement’. I have put the random statement with the posterizeTime statement in an expression on an adjustment layer with a slider now and it works the way I need it to. Thanks again.
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Thanks very much for your help.
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[Duke Sweden] “Well, I don’t know how much movement will be involved with your cake monster,”
Hi Duke, here is the final result. There are a lot of in-jokes here but you’ll get the gist. I’ve put the host’s head on from different footage of him. The very end animation is intentionally rough. They showed it on the show recently and it got great comments but I’m not happy with what they did to the sound and the res dropped also so here is a direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX-pez1kuyo
Feel free to make any suggestions on improvements. Some of the roughness is fine but there are some things that I’d like some advice on. I was thinking that I maybe could have feathered his head on the scone. To tell you the truth though I had spent too long on this anyway. It was a really hard slog.
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[Duke Sweden] “What is this community on youtube that gets a few thousand views?”
It’s a video game review show with about 7 – 8 thousand regular viewers on YouTube each weekday and another few thousand through the local (Australian) tv station’s website. There are a lot of in-jokes and the content is based mainly around the host (who is hilarious) and games. They pick a 20 – 60 second piece that someone has sent in to play each day. Most of them are pretty bad but there are some really clever and well edited ones in there as well. I’m trying to raise the bar by putting in a lot of effort with this one. I’ve been working on it for about 3 months (I have two little ones and a full time job) and it will only be about 50 seconds or so. A LOT of work starting at 3am most days (yawn)! I’m not sure it will be what you’re looking for but I may post a link here to the ep if they play mine. It may be another month or so away though.
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[Dave LaRonde] “This weekend, I took the grandkids to see Steven Speilburg’s “The BFG”; a fine story in itself, brought to life by special effects. I won’t soon forget the images.
Whenever I hear or read of an individual attempting complicated special effects using Adobe software, I think of such movies. I think of the effort it took to achieve such a high degree of realism. Mostly I think, “How the hell did they do that?”
I think many people assume it’s easy, particularly those who are new to doing such things. When they ask how to pull off things that took Spielburg years of professional man-hours and state-of-the-art hardware/software, I get a little cranky. I feel they denigrate the high degree of expertise required to achieve such images. They are, indeed, jaw-dropping.
It may be a knee-jerk reaction, but I can’t help but think many people are thinking, “I’ve got a camera, I’ve got Adobe software, I’ve got the WORLD!” Sorry, but it’s not that easy. Not by a long shot.
I think questions such as the OP’s are a slap in the face to the individuals who have the intelligence, the high degree of ingenuity and the profound creativity to do such things and make us believe what we see.”
1. I want to learn how to improve my skills and this is meant to be a fun step towards becoming better.
2. I mentioned that this is not meant to be professional. This will be seen by a few thousand people online, but other efforts by other people on this YouTube show are pretty basic also. It’s a community creative thing.
3. I mentioned that I am just looking for general pointers at the directions I should take and I would go and find tutorial videos myself and see how much of my vision I could achieve.
4. I thought it was a place to ask questions for people who are looking to improve their skills. I have some very good skills in some areas of Adobe software and others I am just keen to learn.I can’t believe that you have become so upset at my question. I can’t understand how I have upset you so much. I have asked simple questions here before and found some helpful answers. I will be happy to just make the start and finish images in Photoshop, use the reshape effect in After Effects, morph from one to the other and use After Effects puppet warp record feature and bring it back into PP and I think this will look perfectly fine. I am dumbfounded at your response. Absolutely dumbfounded.
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[Duke Sweden] “I have an idea of how you could go about it but I’m afraid Dave might yell at me ;-)”
You’re teasing me now Duke. I may just take it into AE and use the reshape effect and make a morph between the arms and the tentacles. It’s for an internet show and people get creative for the fun of it so no stress if you’re idea is just a stab in the dark. -
[Dave LaRonde] “THEY KNOW. THEY DON’T TAKE CHANCES.
Have you done this? If you have not, you only have yourself to blame for the success or failure for the work you have already done.”
I’ve puppet warped the individual arms frame by frame in PS to move in a particular way and this looks great. This doesn’t need to be very professional, it’s going to be quite cartoony. Now through my creative process I’ve come across this idea that I’d like to see if I can make work. I just want to black out the shapes, warp them a little so they don’t look so much like arms and put a different texture on them. I’m not looking for step by step instructions, I’m just looking for some PP or AE tools / effects that I can research tutorials on to see if they will work or not.