Chris Smith
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Personally I use masks since you let AE interpolate the shapes so there is no flickering. Using Paint to me is like taking on the limitations of the Hand Rotorers of Yore, flickering and all. Not to mention time consuming to actually do every frame.
My only suggestion is to undo the area that is flickering and do that part using masks. Of course use standard roto technique of setting a key at the begining and end of the clips, then go to the middle of the clip and adjust the mask, set key, split those keyframes, adjust mask, set key, etc… till it tracks with the object enough.
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Here is my thought:
Separate the camera motion into a few layers for most control. There seems to be 2 major moves the cam is doing. One is simply scanning across the comic with absolutely no pan or tilt going on. It’s as if the comic was just moving below the cam.
The other is the cam dipping in and out of the comic (up and down).
So break that up into two layers:
1. Kill the autoorient to Position of interest that the camera does (check manual for how to do this). Now simply animate the X and Z positions of the camera (assuming it is looking straight down at the comic). So that the camera seems to scan over the comic.
2. Create a null layer. Parent the camera to the null layer (so it takes on the motion of the null in addition to it’s own). Now simply animate the Y position of the null (so when you want the camera to dip into the comic, animate the Y position lower, etc..)
Then smooth the curves of all the keyframes on both layers.
This gives you independent control and a lot more flexibility to change how you do the cam movement.
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Do you have one with the compression settings not so generous? 70 mb was too long to wait. After 12 Mb it was only like 30 sec of material (and only a some of that actaully mograph stuff).
my .02
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It seems you have answered your own question.
Just break what you requested down into steps. Copy the footage. Maybe use the top layer in Screen transfer mode. Move it late in time by 10 – 15 frames. Use scale or corner pin to tweak the height and width. Use the strobe effect on a third copy and set it to ADD mode. Add a blur to it. So when it flashes it will be glowing. Maybe tint it bluish or orangish to make the glow either fiery or cool. Etc..
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Yeah, it’s definitely particles. Don’t think you need Particular though. Looks like a simple stream of simple white particles that are dense enough to look like a stream of light. I bet if you played around with CC Particle World and got the physics right and add a bluish glow on them, you could get extremely close to this.
Geesh, and no one believed me when I suggested to use particles to simulate old video tubes smearing 🙂
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did you set the composition settings to advanced 3D renderer instead of the normal one? The norml one looks like a terrible box blur. The advanced one looks like a very acceptible gaussian type.
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Generally you’re SOL. However you can add noise or use any dithering plug-ins you may have to reduce the effect.
If you notice watching DirecTV or digital cable anytime you see the art card at the end of a spot there is commonly a subtle gradient. It always looks terrible and banded. It’s just the limitations of the medium and that’s mpeg2. Furthermore compression algorithms usually work to group colors together to make them easier to describe making banding worse.
I’d throw a little layer of noise in there first and see if that gets you close enough.
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Well, doing it that way gives up the coolness that the ascii creates the image depending on character. Then it’s just a luma matte thing. Which if you wanted to do it that way would be much quicker to shoot subject over white and turn the RGB image into a luma matte.
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If the intension was to have them put into another “world” like lots of videos are doing lately, it is imperative that you have tracking markers. Yeah, you COULD do it by hand, but in my opinion that it rediculously out of the question.
Lots of the good videos like by Tim Hope and such shoot the band on greenscreen with tracking markers spaced out all over the screen. Then they run the shots through a 3D tracker and generate the 3D files they need for their main work environment (3DS Max for Tim Hope).
If you are just doing one shot or two you can maybe get away with tracking something stable in the shot like something on the drum kit. But more than that, it would be irresponsible for the shoot to be done with that intention in post and not have the elements needed to pull off the effect.
Chris Smith
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