Chris Smith
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Also if you pick up some books on composite software (Apple Shake 3 book comes to mind) you get a CD with lots of greenscreen stuff, separate layers, etc. Plenty of stuff to use and learn from whether you plan to use Shake or not.
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My guess it to speed up the layer a lot say 400- 800 %. Pre-comp this. On the pre-comp add the effect>Time>’Posterize Time’ effect and set it to only show you a frame a couple of times a second.
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Hey Paul, Yeah it looks fantastic. I guess my requests were for the benefit of AE itself. I actually use Avid|DS to do my roto/track/composite work now (getting tired of the FCP to AE thing), I was just ranting that as a program there were some basics that I felt AE was getting behind on. It was for my love of AE that I had to critisize..sniff (chokes up).
They grow up so fast. 🙂
Chris Smith
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Hey Paul, Yeah it looks fantastic. I guess my requests were for the benefit of AE itself. I actually use Avid|DS to do my roto/track/composite work now (getting tired of the FCP to AE thing), I was just ranting that as a program there were some basics that I felt AE was getting behind on. It was for my love of AE that I had to critisize..sniff (chokes up).
They grow up so fast. 🙂
Chris Smith
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I confess that I have never used expressions in AE. Which is strange because in Maya and Shake I lean heavily on them. Something about the javascript turns me off. However one could argue that although that is a solution, it is not an elegant one for the casual user. Commotion still has it best in my opinion, a simple math ops window.
As far as speed of Commotion track are you setting it to software or ‘powermac G4’? If you set it to PowermacG4 (also on a G5) it’s blazing fast even with the precision all the way up (how I track). When I do tracks, I give the AE one a quick go. But it never fails to be rough track straight out of the gate. I do the same track in Commotion and it’s often great at the get-go.
Yes I do respect CF. But as I’ve ranted before in other threads a while back, like you said, it’s integration with AE defeats it’s usability in my book. If you have all day to futz with it, fine, but I don’t 🙁
Chris Smith
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I confess that I have never used expressions in AE. Which is strange because in Maya and Shake I lean heavily on them. Something about the javascript turns me off. However one could argue that although that is a solution, it is not an elegant one for the casual user. Commotion still has it best in my opinion, a simple math ops window.
As far as speed of Commotion track are you setting it to software or ‘powermac G4’? If you set it to PowermacG4 (also on a G5) it’s blazing fast even with the precision all the way up (how I track). When I do tracks, I give the AE one a quick go. But it never fails to be rough track straight out of the gate. I do the same track in Commotion and it’s often great at the get-go.
Yes I do respect CF. But as I’ve ranted before in other threads a while back, like you said, it’s integration with AE defeats it’s usability in my book. If you have all day to futz with it, fine, but I don’t 🙁
Chris Smith
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I think AE needs to at minimum catch up with combustion and commotion on the very basics of a video composite program:
-A tracker that is useful, smooth, and has math functions for smooth, merge, scale the keys, etc.
-Roto tools you can use. Feathering on parts of a mask, tracking points, direct matchmove of masks (as opposed to matchmove a layer with a mask), And a better way of grabbing and manipulating the masks themselves. I spend more time screwing up my mask trying to grab it right then using the thing.
-A REAL COLOR CORRECTOR. AE still uses Photoshop tools. AE needs a DaVinci style color corrector (like Combustion).And a couple small changes I think one of their programmers could do in a weekend:
– Stroke. One of the things I see people use 3D stroke for is not even the 3D! But the tapering. AE Stroke already has the start / end / offset, Why not add a tapering option? Seems easy.
– The number generator. I see so many posts about how to get the number generator to go higher or display in some reasonable standard that it still won’t show.
–Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com -
I think AE needs to at minimum catch up with combustion and commotion on the very basics of a video composite program:
-A tracker that is useful, smooth, and has math functions for smooth, merge, scale the keys, etc.
-Roto tools you can use. Feathering on parts of a mask, tracking points, direct matchmove of masks (as opposed to matchmove a layer with a mask), And a better way of grabbing and manipulating the masks themselves. I spend more time screwing up my mask trying to grab it right then using the thing.
-A REAL COLOR CORRECTOR. AE still uses Photoshop tools. AE needs a DaVinci style color corrector (like Combustion).And a couple small changes I think one of their programmers could do in a weekend:
– Stroke. One of the things I see people use 3D stroke for is not even the 3D! But the tapering. AE Stroke already has the start / end / offset, Why not add a tapering option? Seems easy.
– The number generator. I see so many posts about how to get the number generator to go higher or display in some reasonable standard that it still won’t show.
–Chris Smith
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Brings up a good point. AE should have a time remap thing like C4D that time remaps a sequence of keyframes not video itself. In C4D you can make an animation as complex as you wish then just use a time track and do a simple speed change on it. This will warp every keyframe “inside” of it.
Chris Smith
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Tell me about the system. I use my 20D on set as well to get a better idea of how the film will look. But if there is a more accurate system I’d love to check that out.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com