[Chris Wright]

also, you can use custom connectors besides the bland beam, for instance, you can use ropes, chains, beads, etc. They work best as vector images.

custom connectors
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/986902

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[Chris Wright]

shift can take the alpha from any r,g,b like the tut
Photoshop World: Lab Color with Dan Margulis – PixelPerfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfRynutmQM

if you put color balance on each shift-rgb and rotate them then put then as screen, you can create infinite variations of your image
where red becomes orange, blue becomes teal, etc. and you can add contrast to each precomp so the individual channels are 3 lutted.
like in this example

I tested the red to green car and it looks exactly the same! i took off all the layers except temp controls
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=JKZ5YXBE

Also LAB color channels can be found from Walker FX, which also supports CMYK which is pretty cool.

here’s a technicolor example if you’re interested in crosstalk colors
ae cs3 aep
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6J1HBY2

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[Chris Wright]

you cannot have the FCP version and the CS5 version co-exist on your system.

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[Chris Wright]

Do you mean the pants being dark in the beginning? You can apply shadow/highlight and leave it on auto. That will auto adjust the whole thing. Then add another copy of that effect below it but put it on manual to raise your shadows where you want them. Finally, color correct. use Curves, then drag the middle part of the line for each red, green, blue channel, until it matches the background.

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[Chris Wright]

Sometimes you just want something to move constantly without keyframing it. Use throw.

// Throw (move at a constant speed without keyframes)
veloc = -10; //horizontal velocity (pixels per second)
x = position[0] + (time – inPoint) *veloc;
y = position[1];
[x,y]

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[Chris Wright]

my little groups are

a footage,then add to it
-shift
set alpha as lightness(the checkboard will reveal transparency.)

-then below it, level, individual controls, with alpha input black and input white

then below that layer, another footage with the above set as alpha matte. anything you add to this lower footage now will be masked by the matte. I ususaly add sliders to the input bw / 100.

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you can also precomp half the levels then the input b-w won’t cross over each other and snap the alpha level backwards. also, you can soften the alpha layer by changing how much alpha output(makes softer transitional matte) and what effects are you trying to limit? are you testing my shadow program?

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[Chris Wright]

you’re right. If you use a much different color space than the original used, you’ll get gamut errors called posterization, and wonder, “hey why are there lines in here?”

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[Chris Wright]

here’s an advanced text input script with line spacing, or creating just one text layer containing all the text.

just smash the line text code into eval

crg_Text_from_File.jsx
https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/ie/

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[Chris Wright]

sorry to hear that.
if you’d had a pan, you would have at least had a prayer.

let me be the bearer of bad news. no pan=zero parallax=zero changing perspective=cardboard cut out.

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[Chris Wright]

1. first off, the BG parallax is shifting way different due to being farther away(AND offset) than a 3 ft away actor.

2. 2nd off, the speeds of the pans won’t even be the same.(once again by hand) that’s IF you even did a pan! If not, you’ll have ZERO parallax.

3. you have no easy tracker markers to work with anyway.

Now that you know the hurdles, here’s what you do. You 3D solve the GB panning plate then the FG plate. You now have speed data on the rate of change of the 2 camera pans. You take those Y- camera keyframes and put them into timeremap with an expression to precisely match the pan speeds. Sound easy? I don’t think so.

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