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Chris Wood
April 23, 2012 at 10:38 pm in reply to: Compositing Assets

Yep, it’s stills 🙂

That site looks awesome, thanks.

I also found a free plugin that generates pretty real looking Ivy around 3D objects without any advanced placement or settings. You just click grow and it starts to wrap around your object. Amazing!
Chris Wood
April 23, 2012 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Apply tracking data to masks?

Hi James, I don’t understand the last part:

now you have footage precomped. bring in footage that you will overlay. track it. apply to new null layer. position tracking pre comp to scale position and rotation on overlay. parent tracking pre comp to new null layer. your done.

Could you clarify please?

I have just pre-comped my footage after following all the instructions above. Now I get confused because you say bring in footage that I will overlay. Is this the pre-comp footage, or the original footage? Bring it into where, into the pre-comp, or bring the pre-comp back into the original composition?

See what I mean? Very confusing.

Thanks.
Chris Wood
April 23, 2012 at 10:26 am in reply to: Compositing Blending Techniques (Colour Correction, etc)

Thanks, I hadn’t thought about the levels.

Is there a way to see the levels of both layers side by side?

Thanks.
Chris Wood
April 22, 2012 at 7:25 pm in reply to: glow inside lamp

You could try creating the glow in C4D, which would make a realistic glow.

Render out the .mov as an Alpha, then duplicate it for the reflection, adding a distort effect for the water?
Chris Wood
April 17, 2012 at 11:35 pm in reply to: Here’s a challenge: Stabilising a rotating shot…

Andrew Kramer posted a tutorial for VCP where I recall him enabling a tracker to track a tracker.

It’s the set extension tutorial he does where he composites a few old stone castles into the background.

The camera moves from a shot of the ground, way way way off horizontally and then ends up on its target. He just parents one tracker to the other in some fashion and it seems to work.

You would probably have to daisy-chain a bunch of trackers in this way, but as long as you give your trackers something good to grip to, you should be alright.

You could also look into 3D matchmoving such as Boujou / Syntheyes as, though they are primarily 3D trackers, they can do 2D functions such as stabilization.
Chris Wood
April 17, 2012 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Create human shapes with particular, and then animate them.

Na it’s fine, we have a video studio at Uni with a large green screen. Should be alright!

What I’m worried about now is the cloud density. I suppose I could just duplicate it and mask out the arms, except when they cross over the body (to give the impression of 3D depth)
Chris Wood
April 17, 2012 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Create human shapes with particular, and then animate them.

Do you think the best option would be to get greenscreen footage of a person sneaking around, then use the trapcode form effect, then move that into the comp of the trees, aye?

Seems good to me!
Chris Wood
April 14, 2012 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Change strength of Stabilize Motion

This seems like it should work perfectly, thank you!
Chris Wood
April 11, 2012 at 1:06 am in reply to: Using a video as a background for reference

Hi Brian, I tried that, and it’s not working.

Perhaps it’s because I have only imported frame 1 of my JPEG image sequence, but I can’t work out how to import more frames.

Thanks!
Chris Wood
April 9, 2012 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Any bright minds who wouldn’t mind speaking to me over Skype about some effects?

Thanks Darby. Here’s where I need Skype though, so I can have someone personally advise me on the methods I need to take, as I can then transfer over stills from my film, etc.

If anyone wouldn’t mind adding me, that would be fab.

– Chris

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