Chris Smith
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Bobby,
Watch this. Everything will be clear:
https://trapcode.com/in_action/particular_custom.html
Chris Smith
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Particular can easily do that. I don’t see anything there that can’t be done by it. The movement would be just tweaking the emitter and particle settings. I don’t know what you mean by it can only do one particle. It can do as many custom particles as you want. Just create a precomp and put a different image on every frame and tell Particular to grab a random frame from that precomp for each particle emitted. Looks very standard. Also it looks like an AE light was shined onto the cluster of words because you see where there is a white beam through the middle of them. As far as the face, it looks like a standard mask to bring in the sides and a luma matte to reveal the words in the bright parts of the face. If you notice, the words only appear where the cheeks go white and where the teeth are.
This is all pretty standard stuff.
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It doesn’t look any different to me than AE’s stock depth of field blur when you use a 3D camera. But if you want a better blur, the “Lens Blur” in AE7 looks very nice as it simulates a rea lens which blurs completely differently than a gaussian blur.
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No. AE won’t be updated for Intel for quite a while according to Adobe. That’s why I still use AE on a G5 while using the MacPro for other apps that have been updated. I’d stick with the PC for now.
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Not sure, but if there is greenscreen stock footage, you can key it then use the auto-trace function to get the lines around the edges as masks.
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Yup, it’s in there with all the other CC effects. It’s in the blur section.
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That’s normal behavior. It works just like most 3D programs. Where if there is no lights in the scene then it defaults to an “auto light” where you see everything. But if you add a light, the auto light shuts off and only the lights you add in the scene are lighting anything. So make sure the light you added is actually shining on something. You can also turn up the ambiance setting as well.
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Well FCP works in YUV color (16 to 255 in 8 bit) and AE only works in RGB (0 – 255 in 8 bit). So depending on how you’re getting your video in and out there may be level shifts. I usually render out of FCP into an RGB codec like Quicktime Animation at millions of colors/best quality. FCP should convert the levels for you. Then it will be in RGB land thru AE and Back then hopefully get rerendered back to YUV levels in FCP. However I haven’t done this since using AE7. But my point is that it’s 2 different color spaces and if there isn’t a proper conversion, there will be level shifts. If nothing else, you will have to fix it manually by using levels in AE to bring the blacks back down to 0 and the whites back up to max.
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If using AE, I just do a track (you only need a one point track if the perspective doesn’t change) using the Raw track mode. Then copy the positional keys to a null layer. Then just parent anything I want to track to the null layer. The beauty of this is that you can just move around your graphic layer as you wish to offset it’s position. As long as it is parented to the null then it tracks right along.
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Are you asking what people’s favorites are or guess what software was used in that demo?
Probably all of the above. Obviously there were 3D elements and compositing elements. The standard MO for VFX is to generate elements in 3D and 2D then composite them so any of the programs listed would do this reel. The obvious statement is the program has almost nothing to do with the result you see. That’s pure talent, ideas, and design. It’s like looking at a beautiful building then asking what kind of hammers and saws made it.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com