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Chris Hayner
December 22, 2005 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Archiving in FCP and Firestore FS-4?

Tom,

Thanks so much for the info. I’ll be sure to try it to see if it works. You helped me a bunch. Thanks again and Happy Holidays.

Chris
Chris Hayner
December 22, 2005 at 12:54 pm in reply to: Archiving in FCP and Firestore FS-4?

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I would have the footage recorded to tape as a backup.

So would the timecode be the same on the tape as it is in the firestore?

Thanks,
Chris
Chris Hayner
August 22, 2005 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Layer Offset or Tracking Program?

Aharon,

Thanks so much for the advice on the tracking. I still wasn’t really getting smooth motion even with the Track Fields selected. Then I got your DVD in mail and the first tutorial I watched made me realize what was wrong, I wasn’t starting the track at frame 1 and I didn’t have a keyframe at frame 1. As soon as I did that, it was smooth, so thanks for having such a great dvd resource.

I do have another problem though, the emitter is offscreen for the beginning of the shot in PI, when I insert the offset and say the effect starts on frame 60, just before the emitter turns on around frame 55 or so, you can see the full emitter in the right hand corner for a few frames before it slides into place where it belongs. Any ideas??

Thanks again,
Chris
Chris Hayner
August 18, 2005 at 12:52 am in reply to: Layer Offset or Tracking Program?

Thanks Elvis, Aharon, timoteo and Alan

I tried tracking the footage in AE and importing it into PI. It work very well. Now I’m trying to figure out how to mkake it a little smoother. The emitter in PI moves slightly left and right as the camera is moving until it stops the pan. I tried different settings and tracking points but haven’t got it quite figured out yet. I’ve also tried the smoother but that didn’t seem to do much. But, much thanks for the info.

Chris
Chris Hayner
August 17, 2005 at 3:36 am in reply to: Layer Offset or Tracking Program?

Aharon,

How would I go about getting the the position data from AE to PI? What do I need to copy or export? I have After Effects 6.5 and would like to see the way you would go about doing it. I tracked the footage in AE and now don’t know what to do with it.

Thanks,
Chris
Chris Hayner
August 16, 2005 at 11:17 am in reply to: Layer Offset or Tracking Program?

Aharon,

Thanks for the response. The part of the shot where the emitter is bieng placed isn’t always in the shot. the camera starts on a character running into frame towards the camera, as he reaches his mark the camera pans around 180 degrees to show the city with smoke colums rising in the city so does your advice of picking one point that is always there still aply?

This has been a part of PI that I have always tried to learn but have had little success.

Thanks, Chris