Chris Smith
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I think you are looking for the equivelent of Shake’s ‘colorX’ node. Which basically let’s you do whatever math expression you wish on the channels. As far as plug-ins I think the closest thing is using Channel>Arithmetic, but it only gives you one simple option.
I’d look into expressions as they may be the only way you will get most control out of the channels.
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Well, the Duck certainly does what it promises. It rebuilds your FCP timeline pretty accurately in AE. If you find yourself doing this manually enough that it is diminishing returns, then I would get the Duck.
It works extremely quick and easy with very little hassle if any. The first time I used it, I was so impressed I went to the Duck Cow and posted how brilliant it was (2 years ago).
…actually I found the thread, lol:
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=104943891622248&forumid=116&archive=_2003|9|8
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Hey Aroon,
Like Ron mentioned, to offer project files is perfectly fine if you’re feeling generous. Just asking for them is a tall order.
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I thin’k it’s possible they just drew streaks and animated the position, no? Akira was done late 80’s I think so I would imagine it was a simple animation technique. I could be absolutely wrong but just a thought.
I once wanted to get a comet tail looping around a logo. I tried animating a little sphere in an orbit then trying to crank on a lot of motion blur. Looked steppy. Echo looked more steppy. But then when I actually just modeled a long skinny cone in 3D and made it loop around a circle spline with it’s tale conforming to the circle spline, it looked smooth as silk. So this xperiment makes me think that if the Akira thing looks smooth, it may be just a moving pre-drawn cone like streak.
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Yeah, I responded in your last thread. I’ll repaste my response here:
Go here:
It’s Barend’s review of CC’s new plug-ins. Check out the one called CC Environment. It allows you to wrap the image on the inside of a virtual sphere inside AE that locks to the comp camera.
Although I still say this is what you should do in the first place inside of Max.
This is basically how the big movies do BGs. They put images on the inside of sphere’s in 3D. Or in 3D compositors they do a simulation of it called ‘pan and tile’. Pan and tile you can do in AE without plug-ins, it’s just a practice to get it to look right. Look up “Pan and Tile composite” on the web and learn about it as well.
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Here:
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=110165944855163&forumid=2&archive=_2004|1|0
And Here:
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=110076772284807&forumid=2&archive=_2004|1|0
And Here:
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=109956650281884&forumid=2&archive=_2004|1|0
And Here:
Chris Smith
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Okay, found the thread. It wasn’t the artist, but Jeff Dobrow descibes how he did it:
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111138478570122&forumid=2&archive=_2005|9|8
Chris Smith
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There has already been a thread about this. Don’t remember if it was AE Cow or C4D Cow, but give it a search. If I remember correctly, the guy who did it said how it was done.
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As far as playing them, if it is a codec that QT uses, it seems to play fine for me. If it’s not, you can go to versiontracker.com and there should be converter programs.
Why would you voluntarily want to use AVI when there are all the codecs in Quicktime and the universal codecs like targa, IFF, and so on?
Chris Smith
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Go here:
It’s Barend’s review of CC’s new plug-ins. Check out the one called CC Environment. It allows you to wrap the image on the inside of a virtual sphere inside AE that locks to the comp camera.
Although I still say this is what you should do in the first place inside of Max.
This is basically how the big movies do BGs. They put images on the inside of sphere’s in 3D. Or in 3D compositors they do a simulation of it called ‘pan and tile’. Pan and tile you can do in AE without plug-ins, it’s just a practice to get it to look right. Look up “Pan and Tile composite” on the web and learn about it as well.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com