Chris Smith
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my fave is using motion sketch recording at 25 or 50%. Shake the mouse around. Playback with motion blur. Or obviously track real footage that was shaking and apply that data to your layer.
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Man on Fire was colored by Stefan at CO3 in a Spirit/DaVinci. One thing I like what Stefan does is use power windows to add touches of color here and there where there wasn’t color before. If you’ll permit me I’m pasting my response from a while back about power windows and how to do them in AE:
This is a standard tool used all the time in film transfer called “Power Windows” all commercials and music videos use them for subtle effect that you don’t directly notice, but a lot of the times (like in this Yamaha spot) they are used dramatically for sky darkening. A power window is a feathered shape that gives the DaVinci another layer of color correction within that shape. In final transfer, we will often use up to 15 power windows in one shot!
So I have created simple power window nodes in Shake, but in AE, it’ll need a little more work.
What a power window truly does is give you additional color correction control whithin a shape so here’s how it would be done in AE:
Have your base footage layer. Color correct it however you wish. Since AE doesn’t have any “good” color correction tools for video internally let’s just say it’s “Curves” that did all the tweaking.
Now to make it true Davinci power windows, we would need an AE tool called “Compound Curves” which would only have the curves effect work on where we gave it a mask (like SHake has on every node!). But it don’t. So we will have to be inconvenienced a bit and copy the footage layer with the curves on it. In the Duplicate (Which should be on the top layer) Create a feathered mask shape. Let’s make it the mask that will “Protect” the color correction you have. So if it is a shot of a guy on a dirt bike, draw an oval around the guy. Now feather the mask heavily (like 100 or so). But you will not see a change because you have masked something over a copy of itself.
Now for the magic. Go back to the bottom layer (your original) and go into the curves and drop the RGB gamma and crush in the blacks a little. Viola! Your sky and surrounding area just darkened. But better yet you have full control. Use the same curves to tweak it’s color or do whatever you wish.
In this scenario we had to copy the color correction and modify it to see a change. However in a real DaVinci or in the Shake node, all you have to do on the second layer of correction is just offset what you want different from zero (no correction). Where as here we are offsetting from the full correction.
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Sure you want to get rid of the shaking? A lot of folks pay extra for that 🙂
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I guess get the backorder of the 3D World it was given out in. If I could get permission, I’d love to post the file but I’m sure that’s not kosher.
Maybe contact 3D World mag and ask about it.
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Jenna is one of the things that makes C4D awesome. It’s a suite of effects that are INCREDIBLY cool and useful. search the Cow archives for Jenna. I know I made a pretty lengthy description of it in the last few months.
Run don’t walk to your comp and install it.
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Motion Graphics are almost always done with a 3D/2D pipeline. Invig will allow you to do some logo stuff that I think is suited for TV logo ID’s and Sports opening titles, but really cool graphics are done with a good 3d app and a good 2D app. I recommend C4D for mograph. Here’s some inspiration from folks who use both:
http://www.hypa.tv
http://www.belief.com
http://www.shilodesign.com
http://www.renascent.nl (he does almost all his mograph in 3D only)Chris Smith
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Then I would put the problem at the Avid side. I wonder if it still shows white on the PC in the quicktime player on the Avid machine. If it is showing white, then I think it’s an AVID Cow question me thinks.
Chris Smith
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