Chris Smith
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Wow, it does work. Never tried that before. What is the math going in with the flare on the adjustment layer? Is it unmulted? Added? Screened?
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Out of curiosity, why was it on an adjustment layer?
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The Pen tool(mask tool). Start Drawing!Chris Smith
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I would also explore the idea of just minimizing what part of the floating rig you see and clone the rest out. No composite.
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Work from the final point backwards. There is no sense in guessing. The company who will need to convert the HD onto film will want a certain format or formats. Ask what they need. See if any of those do not require a deck. For example if they can be handed a Firewire drive with a quicktime in a certain codec, then that’s as easy as it gets. If they DO need it on a HD tape, ask what kind. HDCam, HDCam SR, etc.. Then if you don’t want to rent one of those decks, then find a post house who will take your Quicktime AE output and lay it off to tape.
I’m willing to bet if you just call the dudes who will be making the conversion to film they will tell you the most efficient route for you as I assume they do this all the time.
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Make sure you are outputting your video through an uncompressed card throuh SDI or component video to a decent broadcast monitor.
If you use composite video or DV or even worse, the combination of the two then you will have extremly poor results.
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Use the CC Environment effect. It’s part of the HD Cycore package. You’ll have to Google it yourself as it’s blocked from here.
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Just a white border? Drag your pic to the comp button in the project window to make a comp the same size as your pic. In the comp, scale down your pic a little. Make the Comp BG color white.
OR
If you want to crop your pic instead, do the same, except scaling the pic, use the square mask tool to draw a mask to reveal all of your picture except for the outer part (which will be left white because your comp bg is set white).
There must be a hundred ways to do this, but that pops to mind.
If you want to manipulate the bordered pics, then drage the comps into a master comp and treat them like normal layers.
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Yeah, I do it all the time. But I found a good wiggle expression with motion blur turned on can do the look really well without the need to track a real dot.
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I can tell you it will look like arse when you’re done with it. Because you will have to crop your 4:3 image way down to a 2.35:1 image, then stretch that back up vertically for the anamorphic squeeze effect. Then take what little pixels you had left over and make it as big as a movie screen will look very low res I would imagine.
Chris Smith
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