Daniel Waldron
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To render out a master, simply drop your composition into the Render Queue and export it an uncompressed or lossless setting (Animation, image sequence, ProRes, etc). From there you can add it to media encoder and make whatever file types you need.
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A lot of the expressions experts seem to roam the Expressions forum more than other ones. Try posting there.
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Search for paint drops with an alpha channel on stock footage sites.
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Are you on a Mac? If so, I believe installing the free trial of FCPX should give you the codec.
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What you’re looking to do is called rotoscoping. You can use masks or the rotobrush in After Effects. Either way it will take a good chunk of time. If you need to do motion tracking or camera tracking, that adds another layer (pun intended) of difficulty. I suggest learning the basics of rotoscoping first, and then deciding what is worth it to do. Unless you have a big budget of course; then do whatever you need to. 😉
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There are many ways to do this and it depends on personal preference, as well as what else is going on in the composition. I would line up all your videos next to each other and parent them to a null object. Then you can keyframe the position of the null to “swipe” to the next video.
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You can use a particle system to create your own dust, but an easier method is to purchase some stock footage of dust with an alpha channel and composite that. For the screen shake, use a wiggle expression. There are a few great tutorials on screen shakes and earthquake effects on VideoCopilot.net.
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It should export the way it appears in the timeline. If your main footage is 60fps, the 24fps footage is likely duplicating frames to play back at the same speed. Export a short segment to test it out.
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Ah, Ken already mentioned the puppet tool idea. That appears to be what it is.
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In this particular video, it appears there is some actual body movement, so I would guess they either shot at a really high framerate or used Twixtor and rotoscoped the people.
Or as I look at it again, perhaps the puppet tool was used to add some body movement to still images…