Chris Smith
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I don’t know about “Top”. When I’m getting the same jobs Ridley and Tony Scott get, then we’ll talk about the top 😉
Most important book of all for direction for me was “On Directing” by David Mamet. You can read it in one or two sittings.
Also “Rebel Without a Crew” by Robert Rodriguez.
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My initial thought is to use the video as a displacement map in the displacement channel of any 3D program. Then use the video as the color channel as well. Maybe even in the transparency channel.
This way the lighter the part of the image, the more forward it its, also, the more opaque it is (if you also use the transparency channel).
Apply this material to a flat plane. Then render out.
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AE should be able to do just about anything Shake does, just slower workflow for FX because it’s not node based.
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“Minority Report”.
Don’t know what you mean by height displaement. But put the layer in 3D space and move the camera around it. How you comp it into the 3D footage is a different matter.
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Too me it looks properly synced but that the Black Opel is at a closer z depth than the horse video part.
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I personally export out of DS using Quicktime (animation codec at 100% Millions of Colors). But I set the video levels to ‘graphics’ because Animation is an RGB codec. Bring this into AE (Which is native RGB). Then export with the same settings back to the QT. Make sure when you capture it the settings are still ‘graphics’ so that it properly converts the RGB back to YUV.
If the RGB, YUV settings get off somewhere, your levels will shift and you’ll get a dark image or a brighter image than it should be.
Sorry if these settings don’t apply to MC, I only know DS and assume they are similar.
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Garbage mask the area of the screen where the shoes are so that they are the only bright thing in the masked area.
Then use a luma key to isolate just the shoes. Then apply echo to this so that the shoes echo and smear. Composite this over the original video.
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It’s my interpretation he just wants the dot like a gun laser on a forehead look.
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