Darby Edelen
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[Dave LaRonde] “There’s no such thing as a “speed 0″ in Time Remapping”
Sure there is… there’s a speed graph for any property that can be animated over time. For buijon: you click the button that looks like a graph just to the left and above the timeline. Then it shows the graph editor for any properties you select in the timeline, it defaults to selecting the type of graph for you (value or speed) but you can change this with the options that appear at the bottom of the graph.
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[echo] “should the background be scaling faster then the foreground?”
The background should scale slower than the foreground, the difference in speed would depend on the distance between the background and foreground as well as the focal length of the lens. The camera in AE would handle that for you, if you’re trying to fake it with scale then I guess you’d just tweak until you’re happy with the result!
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[jimmybee500] “Until CS3 comes out you will only get *better* performance on a PC, since the mac version isn’t Intel friendly yet.”
That’s assuming that you’re not still using a G5 =O
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What do you need this egg to do? How will it be animated?
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You need to select all of the position/anchor point keyframes that the motion tracker created when you applied it. Then make sure that your playhead is on a frame that currently has a keyframe (otherwise this process will just create a new keyframe) use ‘j’ on your keyboard to go to the previous visible keyframe and ‘k’ to go to the next visible keyframe. Now drag the position values in the timeline or in the comp window to adjust all of them while keeping their relative positions.
The other way to do this effectively would have been to create a null object and apply the motion tracker to it, then parent the layer you want to follow the tracker to the null object. This would allow you to adjust the relative position of that layer without having to mess with any keyframes. This technique would not work with rotation tracking unless you had the null at the center of the rotation.
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[pena] “That is normally the case if image sequence import fails. 36431 is not too much I think.
I have used over 65000 without problems.”Well that kind of punches a whole in my technical limitation theory =) I’ll see if I can recreate the problem.
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[moldyboot] “i would theorize that maybe you hit a limit in ae”
My guess as well, the number 32766 stands out to me as a definite indication that you’ve reached some sort of technical threshold (32768 is the highest positive number that can be stored in a standard 16-bit integer). If AE is using a 16-bit integer to store some sort of reference to the images in the sequence then you would run across problems when you approach 32768 images. I’d try Steve’s suggestion earlier in the thread.
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[rjf e:613] “This is a technique Andrew uses repeatedly”
I know this probably isn’t as much of an incentive to use a vignette… but… I use it a lot as well (;
I try not to overuse it, but it’s such an easy effect to add. It can make things look immediately richer as it’s reminiscent of old film footage. It also often times helps draw attention to the center of the screen and gives ‘depth’ to the footage.
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You might also try using the Disk Utility in your Utilities folder (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility) to repair file permissions.
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[stevie003497] “I have a full-screen video clip, shrunk down to about 60 % of it’s size.”
If you’re shrinking a layer down you should have a transparent border around it already, then it should be easy to add a solid layer behind this one (any color you want) making sure it’s the size of the comp. Insta-border. It’s simple but that sounds like it’s what you’re looking for.