Christian Tanner
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thanx darby, kevin and tristan. great suggestions.
kevin, your suggestion sounded perfectly easy – until i took it into action…
take a look at the attached image.
my comp is 720×405 sq pix. i made a luma matte out of ae for a test. rendered as a mov and imported it back into ae. used it as a luma matte on my footage and applyed stroke to my footage. that was the result. any ideas?
thanx again.
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thanx for the help guys! most informative.
what i’m trying to do is actually quite simple. that’s why i got slightly frustrated because i’m convinced that there must be an easier approach to it than the one i pursued.
anyways:
i’m compositing an animation done in a 3d app. i got handed a luma matte from an object in the foreground. at some point during the camera move everything but that foreground object fades to white.
i’m trying to make that object pop out even more by applying a OUTLINE to it – probably black.again – a simple one – but again i’m just trying to find a more simple approach than the one i did – and along the way maybe even learn a thing or two. so far the plan worked…
i, for instance, am applying the luma matte to the footage. then i’m applying a duplicate of the luma matte to a black solid. finally i apply the luma key effect and throw that right underneath my footage layer.
it’d be great to hear your approaches.
thanx again!tanner
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thanx for the help guys! most informative.
what i’m trying to do is actually quite simple. that’s why i got slightly frustrated because i’m convinced that there must be an easier approach to it than the one i pursued.
anyways:
i’m compositing an animation done in a 3d app. i got handed a luma matte from an object in the foreground. at some point during the camera move everything but that foreground object fades to white.
i’m trying to make that object pop out even more by applying a OUTLINE to it – probably black.again – a simple one – but again i’m just trying to find a more simple approach than the one i did – and along the way maybe even learn a thing or two. so far the plan worked…
i, for instance, am applying the luma matte to the footage. then i’m applying a duplicate of the luma matte to a black solid. finally i apply the luma key effect and throw that right underneath my footage layer.
it’d be great to hear your approaches.
thanx again!tanner
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thanx kevin!
doh – of course – i do work on windows – and i DO know the “task manager”… – as i said – doh.
i guess sometimes things are too obvious for us to be noticed – or that’s just me…thanx again
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thanx dan! – i’ll try that – only out of curiosity though, as the client demands their very own font (which isn’t mono spaced i’m affraid).
guess i have to do that one by hand…thanx again.
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cheers rork!
silly me – i didn’t even realize there was an expression section on the forum…
and yeah – i thought somehow it has to be possible to link the “start animator” of a type animation preset via expression. but the tricky (or even impossible bit) probably is to link that percentage value (of the animator) to coordinates (of the particle emitter).
…but as you said: that belongs into the realms of the expression forum – so off i go…
anyways, thanx again.tanner
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hey scott!
2.4ghz dual processor – 3plus ram – radeon x1950
but again – i actually wanted to know about what ram, cpu and graphics card does, also because i actually just “think” i know what it does in ae, but wanted to get clarifiaction from someone who knows better than me…
tanner
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hey pat!
just to drop a lign about polas that might help you:
polarizers come in two models: directional and omni-directional. omni-directional polas work – no matter what direction you mount them on in front of your camera. problem with omni-directional polas is, they are LESS powerfull than directional polas.
directional polas have only one, proper direction. if mounted wrongly, they don’t do anything at all.
what you do with a directional pola is to watch a reflection through the pola and twisting it (45° to a reflection or the sky if there is none works best). easier to do that before you mont it on your camera just by looking through it by eye. especially if your matt box trays (if you have any) don’t twist.directional polas in most cases take a stop of your exposure.
polas noticably increase sky contrast if it’s cloudy.
as suggested before, polas reduce reflection best on a 45° angle to the reflecting surface. flat on, they don’t work at all.
hope that helped…
tanner
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hey darby!
my RAM’s pretty crappy: 2G. (that planed upgrade is long overdue…)
my max RAM cache size is 60%
maximum memory usage is 120%apparently still the default values 🙂
and no – AE doesn’t give me an error.
ah, and by the way – i get the RAM-fragmentation now. It’s the same as with a hard drive – doh – simple as that…
i guess i leave it at that and will pre-render my pre-comps if that problem keeps reoccuring. or i might try davids idea.
christian
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i forgot…
thanx dave for that “purge ram tip” – i might just try that sometimes…
christian