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Should be a straightforward matter of having each cutout piece as a separate layer then transition these in as you see fit.
If you want an interesting wipe effect then Add a Layer Mask to each layer, set it to Luma. Then create an interesting gradient, and set this as the layer mask for your cutout layer (just drag and drop it into the image mask layer). Finally add a Brightness/Contrast filter (to your grad) and play away.
Lather rinse repeat for the other layers.
That should do it for you. There are, of course, other ways to achieve the same effect.
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Hi Steve,
You can do this with Grow/Shrink, but if you’ve got a definite pair of values to work with then you’re best off adding a couple of keyframes in this case.
Grow/Shrink works with the initial scale set then works in one direction from there. If you have a scale set at 0% then Ramp to a Final Value it’ll never work (anything multiplied by 0 = 0). Set the scale to 1% and Ramp to 8500, this will give you the equivalent of 85% scale.
Now here’s the kicker – as soon as the Grow/Shrink behaviour ends, the layer reverts back to it’s initial value (1% in this case). So we need to add another behaviour, Stop and set this to apply to Scale. Then set the In point of Stop to the final frame of our Grow/Shrink behaviour.
So. You could do all of that. Or set two keyframes. I’m a big fan of behaviours, but they’re not always the most suitable option.
That was longer than I expected :o)
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Then open up Project Properties and change the Pixel Aspect Ratio. You’re set.
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Before you sell your software, check with the software license to see whether or not it is transferable. From memory, Autodesk isn’t too keen on transfering registrations (though I may stand corrected on this).
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It’ll be on your original AE disc. Stick it in and click on Install Cycore Effects :o)
While you’re there, you should check you’ve installed Keylight and all the other delicious goodies that are on the disc.
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Precompose that layer, then apply the motion tracker to it.
If you apply the track to a null you can reuse that info easily on several layers/effects.
If you want to get a bit more serious about tracking then you should have a look at third-party tracking solutions.
For the budget conscious/SD only there’s PF Hoe from The Pixel Farm.
There’s also Syntheyes or (and I’m very excited about this one)Mocha AE coming in about a week.
Good luck,
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It was a bit of hardware that accelerated certain “ICE’d” filters. It’s basically irrelevant now, unless you are running it on a five year old machine.
It should still work up to AE 6. But you probably won’t be able to find drivers for modern OSes.
You can buy the updated but non-ICE’d filters still through Boris in their Final Effects Complete package. These software filters are faster on a newer computer than the ICE’d hardware accelerated ones.
Bottom line: Don’t expect any resale value on it :o)
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[Aharon Rabinowitz] “After Effects cannot do multi-pass compression…”
Are you sure about that, Aharon?
After Effects CS3 looks to be doing multipass H264 quite happily if you choose Export > Quicktime Movie, instead of using the render queue.
Using the render queue just goes through once still though.
I agree that using a dedicated compression piece of software would be better, especially for batches.
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Hi John,
Texture memory refers to your graphics card. First port of call would be to check out your card’s drivers. You can find Boris’ recommended driver version here, but check out Avid’s support page first. You really don’t want to get that wrong. :o)
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I can’t say I’ve been too conscious of this. Have you done the old 0.25/0.5px directional blur trick to take the edge off it?
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