Chris Smith
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Since we have talked about this before, do you have a reason why you don’t do your Background in Max? Is this just an exercise to try and do it in AE or is something in Max not giving you what you want?
As far as adding the text in AE and needing it to look layered, If you add the text as layers, you will need to split them up into duplicates. When a word is in front of the statue, make it higher in the AE layer stack. Then before that word makes it to the back of the statue, split the layer to another layer and put this below the statue layer in the layer stack. So it will have the illusion of going in front, then behind it.
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Have you tried DEcreasing that allocated amount? Gotta leave some for the OS itself. Put it to 1GB, restart and see what happens.
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Not a general thing. Are you using OS9? You said you have 2GB allocated to AE. You can only allocate memory to a program in OS9. OSX is dynamically allocated.
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First of all don’t use compressed audio in AE like an MP3 convert it to AIFF or WAV first. Also make sure your audio icon is on for your ram previews.
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Actually Filip gave you the useful info, I just made the bad joke 🙂
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lol. The only way to make roto easy is to do a still frame 🙂
Well, there are too many techniques to mention here and is worth some searching through the cow archive. But basically, if you want to decrease roto time, exploit the differences between your subject and it’s BG. If your subjects hair is dark over a light background, copy the layer, crush the levels to isolate a matte to use as a luma matte just for the hair. Or use a luma or chroma key.
Don’t ever think of a subject isolation as a one layer thing. You may use 1 key and a garbage mask to isolate the arm from a red BG, then a luma matte and garbage mask to isolate the hair, you may a color key on the subjects bright shirt to key parts of it.
Ideally you use garbage roto to get most of the innards of the subject, then use mattes to get the edges of the subject, especially hard things to roto like hair.
AE’s roto masking is archaic so it makes it harder. You can’t attach tracking data to mask points. However you can create a mask and use tracking data on that layer, then use that layer as an alpha matte.
But if it’s an intense roto job and you happen to own Commotion, Combustion, or Shake, I would use them instead.
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Have you tried not doing the scaling in PS and just scale up in AE while keping the rough settings on so it doesn’t kick in Ant-alias. Just wondering if PS scaling is the culprit.
I would think you could still scale up and not “lose quality” because blocks are blocks when you are dealing with that low of a res.
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Have you tried not doing the scaling in PS and just scale up in AE while keping the rough settings on so it doesn’t kick in Ant-alias. Just wondering if PS scaling is the culprit.
I would think you could still scale up and not “lose quality” because blocks are blocks when you are dealing with that low of a res.
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additional note. When you apply tracker data, I suggest applying it to a null that the camera is parented to. This way your camera parameters are still free to be animated independently.
Chris Smith
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