Christian Wheel
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If you have $199 to spare, Zaxwerks 3D Warps plugin can do this with ease. Give it a layer and then a displacement map and it will give you the effect you’re looking for.
—– Christian Wheel —–
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That works for shrinking it down, but won’t enlarge it.
Also won’t properly display if you have a stroke applied to the shape.
Thanks for the answer though…
—– Christian Wheel —–
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There’s a lot going on in the video you posted. What time in the video is the example you’re trying to point out?
—– Christian Wheel —–
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One way to go is to animate them on using the Write-On effect. You’d probably have to trace over the tattoos using the pen tool and then write-them-on. Don’t forget to use appropriate transfer modes so they keep the texture of the skin.
—– Christian Wheel —–
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I hope not too, but at that price I’m understandably nervous about sending in the warranty card, lol.
—– Christian Wheel —–
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Oops, didn’t paste the part about the speed of the pan.
As for the speed of the pan, this is a tough one – You can use time remapping. You might be able to use the motion tracker as a reference… Figure out how many frames it takes for one point to cover x pixels, then time remap the sections where you feel you need to correct the speed into that same number of pixels per frame.
All this very well may take longer than re-shooting. Just a thought.
—– Christian Wheel —–
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Stabilizing in the tracker controls is really all I can think of. You’ll also probably need to reduce the dimensions of your comp in order to compensate for the stabilization.
2d3 makes a cool plugin called SteadyMove Pro that apparently works miracles on shaky footage, so if you have the $500 to spare, it might be worth it.
Then again, $500 will buy you quite a bit of tripod oil…
—– Christian Wheel —–
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Most commercial fonts already contain the characters with these accents and marks. If you’re running windows you can go Start…Programs…Accessories…Character Map to see them within your font list. From there, you can also copy the desired characters to the clipboard to paste them into AE.
Not sure what the equivalent program is for mac but I’m sure someone here knows.
—– Christian Wheel —–
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Are you using the “Perspective Corner Pin” tracking method?
—– Christian Wheel —–
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This is driving me nuts, I’ve been trying to figure out a solution for the last 4 hours.
Even when I create FLATTENED text in photoshop or paint shop pro that has no antialiased edges, AE still smooths the edges.
There MUST be something I’m missing!
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, 104.3 MyFM, Los Angeles
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
After Effects Enthusiast