Chris Smith
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Well, tell Adobe to make AE node based as well, To offer a GUI that is one unit (like Shake or Combustion), and to fix their trackers and roto to be completely usable, and to use Core Image or someway to use GPU’s well. LOL 🙂
And to please add a usable integrated color corrector and stop using PS tools as the only built in options for Color Correcting. Geesh, Curves and Color balance is not remotely intuitive. And CF is implemented so poorly as a plug-in, it’s too much of a hassle to actualy take advantage of for anything quick.
Okay, I’ll stop ranting 🙂
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C4D uses meters and Maya defaults to centimeters (i think). Like in Maya if you put in a Cube at Pos.X -1, it moves over a good bit (one grid position). In C4D -1 moves it almost imperceptably. It really does seem to be 100 times as fine of movements. Which would make sense. If a cube is 100 units in C4D then it is pretty small, but in Maya would be HUGE (100 grid spaces).
So I haven’t tried it, but change Mayas default unit and see if it changes the scale once imported to AE. You may find a scale that works well.
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Meaning so as from the POV of an athlete looking back at the crowd. So the twinkling lights from all over the crowd?
Hmmm. Maybe messing with Vegas? If you own Combustion, Particle Illusion, or Motion, they have particle effects that look amazingly real for that effect. Of course you can give Particular or PP a go for it as well.
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All an effects house may have that AE does not is software with better algorithms for scaling up footage. Like Shake has a handful of options. A little bit of scale isn’t going to kill anybody though and is used on TV a LOT. Watch any reality/news magazine/Entertainment show and they are pulling, stretching, and zooming their video all over the place to take one clip and give it spunk for ppl with the attention span of a small field mouse like myself.
If you originated on film, then it’s always far cleaner to go back and do a select transfer of that shot and zoom in on the Spirit so that you are just looking at the grain a little closer instead of down rezing in the digital domain. If you shot Super 35 and framed for a BIG TV ground glass than you would have something like 20% extra neg to play with than acadamy 35 and have lots o’ room to zoom in on. I did a CU of a Nokia phone once and framed it off-center for a more interesting frame. In the end they just wanted a crazy ECU of it. We zoomed in on the neg from the S35 framing something like 60%, cranked up the noise reducer a bit more than usual and it looked great! So go figure. I joked that I’m just going to shoot everything with a 12 mil lens from now on and worry about framing later 🙂
What people are calling broadcast quality is now quite often cheap DV cameras shooting news and reality programs, so anything flies.
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Well, cool. I’ll get the plug-in. When I read through the whole reference manual last week I never saw how to center it. Then I went back through and scoured the ref again and never found it. Glad I saw this thread. Yes, so strange that something I think would be used more than a lot of other functions isn’t standard.
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The post around these parts for a package of a few :30 spots for broadcast are 40k on up. Especially since you have to consider your overhead, employees, building, Avids, inferno costs, etc. I know you are a one man show, but it doesn’t mean that you have to come off of that a whole lot. There is a post house here that once said “We don’t even turn on our Avids for less than $30,000”. I’d at least charge $10k. To do offline, online, motion graphics, and DVD mastering is a lot to ask. Pick up an AICE (Association of Independant Commercial Editors) bid and use that as reference.
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Ah, yes. Ease in would have flat tangents. Well that’s what I get for not testing before posting.
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Not that I am aware of. Obviously you can do it the other way around. If you’re desperate, you can re do your camera move in C4D and using a little trial and error replicate it. Then you can share this with AE to get a locked camera.
Chris Smith
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