Dan Fredley
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It sounds like you are compressing a compression, which is probably why you are getting such bad artifacts. Do uncompressed from AE then run it through Media Encoder. I would actually suggest compressing it with MPEG Streamclip–free from squared5.com.
Dan Fredley
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A. Try taking the glow off (Try using a duplicated fast blur layer instead)
B. Try bringing the links to -.5 in Z spaceDan Fredley
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I’d use a very tiny scaled Grid Effect on a Solid as an Alpha Inverted Matte for my footage. Precomp that then scale up the precomp to your heart’s content. Use fast blur on the grid effect layer if you need to soften it.
Also, towards the end of this tutorial you’ll learn how to create the chromatic aberration:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/light_glow/
Dan Fredley
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I’m not sure I completely understand, but you can just use a light called “Emitter” that is parented to a rotating null. There are more complicated ways using expressions.
Dan Fredley
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If you already have position keyframes for the drawing then moving the anchor point will mess up your animation. You could place a 3D null object in the center of your layer, then parent the layer to the null, then rotate the null.
One way to place the null at the exact layer’s position at the exact time you want it to spin is to create the null, make it 3d, drag the null’s parent pick whip to the sun layer. Type 0 (zero) in all position, rotation, orientation values of the null, then unparent it. Select “Local Axis mode” then drag the x and y axes to the center of your layer. If the anchor point z position of your layer is not 0 for some reason, then you’ll have to take the negative value of the z coordinate to zero that out. Then parent the layer to the null and keyframe the null rotation values. This makes it better than just guessing where your layer is in 3D.
Kind of convoluted, but I use this process all the time.
Dan Fredley
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If you bring the file in and “retain layer sizes” you can at least copy position properties from one keyframe layer to the “main animated layer” then it would be easy to scale to match the keyframe layer. Just an idea if you hadn’t already tried that.
Dan Fredley
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Actually, I realized that script would pause for 60 seconds then unpause for 60 seconds.
This new script is updated to where it will wait 15 seconds while Watch Folder checks for new files, then it will pause for 45 for example. But there will always be a 15 seconds delay while it is unpaused.
Make sure it is NOT paused before starting the script. Otherwise it will do the opposite of what you want.
Anyways, hope it helps.
Dan Fredley
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Unfortunately, it’s not accesible via AppleScript.
Here’s a program and shell script that will help you:
Copy the command-line application in the link above to your /usr/local/bin folder (it’s hidden so use “Go to folder…” in Finder menu).
You’ll need to type in your password to authenticate.
Start Watch Folder
Drag Watch Folder window up to the top left corner as far as it will go towards the Apple Menu
Drag the included shell script in the terminal
Hit EnterI set the default to 60 seconds in the script.
You can adjust interval time in the script as well as the screen coordinate if it’s a bit off.
Dan Fredley
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H.264 is only optimized for certain aspect ratios and pixel dimensions. You should output to a more flexible format such as Animation, then try to convert it to H.264 in another program like Quicktime Pro, Adobe Media Encoder, MPEG Streamclip or Apple Compressor.
I had to do a similar aspect ratio for split screens at a conference awhile back. It took a couple of tries, but it finally worked. I think I ended up using Quicktime Pro.
Dan Fredley
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Go to the window menu and select “Tracker”. Then select Track Motion and then select “Stabilize” as the “Track Type”.
Dan Fredley