Chris Evans
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I’d go for a mic. If you ever shoot an event, or some run-and-gun stuff, you’ll want a mic that picks up good audio without a primary speaker.
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The Metabones Speed Booster doesn’t actually give the camera a Full Frame field of view. A telephoto extender should get rid of the vignetting, but it zooms your image, making the angle of view of the 8mm pointless.
TL,DR: you can’t.
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Graphics Cards matter, but not as much as CPU’s or RAM. The one you have listed is a great choice. My suggestion is just to find a good one that is the best money for what you get. Don’t spend excess just to get one that’s absolute top of the line. Get a decent Quadro if you can, but don’t worry about it too much.
With your current setup, if you’ve tried things, then it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be.
After effects is designed to utilize multiple cores and it uses them if you have the multicore enabled or not. The only thing that does is render multiple frames at the same time as opposed to using multiple cores for one frame at a time. (there are advantages to both). More cores and a higher clock speed are both valuable. However, without a LOT of testing on different CPU’s it’s impossible to tell how many Ghz you should sacrifice to get more cores or vice versa. Just do pricing research and get the best deal you can.
Sorry I can’t give you a better answer. I would decide on a rough budget and find the best deals you can get for that money.
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Unless you do some extremely complicated, effects-heavy compositions, you shouldn’t need any more RAM than you have listed. Your CPU is great also, the thing to remember is that a second CPU doesn’t double your power, I have been told that you actually need 4 CPU’s to double the power from one (for normal computing, multiple CPU’s are great for servers). So, if you can go with maybe a 12 core or one with a faster clock speed, you might come out ahead for roughly the same cost and you can probably get a cheaper motherboard.
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Your last sentence is correct. Ray trace render does use the GPU to render, but if you’re doing 3D things, it’s better to use Element 3D or an actual 3D software. The AE team won’t be improving the ray tracing feature because they have since gone the route of C4D integration for 3d stuff. So, other than Ray Tracing, the only thing a better gpu does is improve the viewer rendering speed(and element 3d if you use it), which is nice, but not worth spending a ton on a GPU for. Just get an awesome CPU and you’ll be good.
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I also found this one which you just pull the legs to extend and press a button to collapse them.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/336188-REG/Manfrotto_458B_458B_NeoTec_Pro_Photo.html
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I saw this post and it got me interested in what the ‘fastest’ tripod is. I found this after a few minutes.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554073-REG/Manfrotto_058B_058B_Aluminum_Studio_Pro.html
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If you watch the tutorials that come with the plug-in, it will explain things like this and a bunch of other important things. There are several ways to achieve what you are looking for, including what Joseph and John said, but Andrew Kramer actually recommends changing the transfer mode to screen instead of add because the lens flares were actually designed to be used that way and the falloff will look a little more natural. Of course, you should do whatever gets the best result, so play around with the different ways of doing it to get what you want.
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I don’t really know of a tutorial on this exact kind of thing, but if you understand how to use transfer modes, solids, masks, and keyframes, you should be able to pull this off pretty easily. Those are largely the basics of after effects.
https://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs6/
I would check out those tutorials. Start with the “Getting Started with After Effects CS6” part, which isn’t at the top for some reason. Others can probably recommend other places to learn. After Effects is a massive program with massive potential, but the learning curve is just as big. Take your time, watch as many tutorials as you can, and practice, until you understand how to do most of the basic stuff, it’s really hard to explain things without a lot of typing.
For some more advanced things, check out Video Copilot, it’s where I learned almost everything I know about AE.
If anyone else has tutorials, feel free to give more.
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Just put a masked white/yellow layer over it. If your shot is moving, track it with mocha. How long have you been using after effects?