[Chris Wright]

Now if you don’t mind 8bit, quicktime’s png is smaller than animation’s for the same quality, but for 16bpc…

I have done a lot of tests and the smallest, free way to go is Tiff 16 bits trillions LZW off. PSD works too but is a little bigger.

PNG’s use lzw compression and so are 99.9% ok. Tga is not recommended either.

You can also buy cineform 444 and use prores 444 10 bit. Always use color management and 16,32 bpc in your projects imho.

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[Chris Wright]

There’s two things I’d watch out for…

1. Partial transparency in the image premultiplied with the wrong color which means you’ll need to use the AE effect remove color matting.

2. Instead of tga,arg! use Tiff 16 bit trillions lzw off.

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[Chris Wright]

Here is a skin plugin for AE
https://www.digitalanarchy.com/beautyVID/main.html

I have since moved on from AE to commotion because it natively supports b-spline(curves). Hope this helps.

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[Chris Wright]

true, but you can’t use sliders with that.

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[Chris Wright]

That’s easy, just take the very last keyframe, then distance = velocity * time. And the exact same code pasted into the rotation will work too.

n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time){
n–;
}
}
if (n == 0){
t = 0;
}else{
t = time – key(n).time;
}

if (n > 0){
v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time – thisComp.frameDuration/10);
value + v*t;
}else{
value;
}

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[Chris Wright]

perhaps precomping the closed path then apply scribble

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[Chris Wright]

you can use time remapping on particular itself

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[Chris Wright]

if the camera is actually moving, then you’ll need to matchmove in 3-D.
I’d recommend syntheyes for ease of use and price. You should definitely try the demo and do a full test with all your gear, then when the actor shows up, it’s smooth sailing. If you are using static perspective shots, then even AE can fudge 2 types of exported 3-d objects because there’s only 2 angles of any particular object.

https://www.ssontech.com/regis.htm

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[Chris Wright]

here’s a free converter that should work because it can encode anything vlc can play.

https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

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[Chris Wright]

right click replace “image sequence as 24fps” then it will automatically work. Dropping it into the “apply timewarp effect” will not work because it needs to be precomped in the composition called “precomp”. Sigh*

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