Darby Edelen
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I was cruising the forums and happened upon this post, but I couldn’t recreate the phenomenon… I’m going to play around a bit more with it in the context of the beam effect and toComp()…
I’m using AE 7.0.0.244 on Mac OS 10.4.9
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The CC effects are installed and licensed with AE Pro. It sounds like you’re talking about the Star Field Glow effect preset which uses CC Star Burst and shouldn’t be a problem, but just in case I thought I should mention that ‘Star Glow’ is a Trapcode effect that will definitely put a red X through your comp if you haven’t licensed it.
I don’t know what else to recommend without seeing what this X looks like, sorry I can’t be more helpful =)
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[wuzelwazel] “what is the benefit of working in square pixels at all?”
I really wanted an answer to this… Nobody checking this thread anymore? (;
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https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1915783021451196103
I don’t have particular at home so I did this with the trial version (I apologize for the ‘X’). It could also be done with After Effects’ built-in Particle Playground, but the results aren’t quite as nice and the render time is higher (go figure).
This is just a particular effect applied with a custom particle. The custom particle is from a pre-comp I made of a one dollar bill that rotates on its X and Y axes to give it that ‘light as a feather’ floating look. The timing of the particles is set to Random in particular so that the particles aren’t all rotating identically.
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I wouldn’t be able to tell you what the deal is without more information. What effects are you using? Usually the unregistered effect identifies itself in one of the corners. You can also try disabling one effect at a time until the X disappears. If disabling an effect at a time until you find the perpetrator isn’t working then I may have led you on a wild goose chase and it may be another issue =)
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[Zvi_Twersky] “It’s a GREAT LITTLE free player that will play ANYTHING without downloading any codecs. It’s compatable with almost evey OS including MAC, LINUX, etc… You can watch the clip with it. It’s worth it just to see the slow motion quality in it.”
I actually do have VLC, and I love it =) The WMV opened VLC but no video window appeared, I was in a rush to leave work so I didn’t try to troubleshoot or download Windows Media =) Thanks for the advice though!
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I don’t have Windows Media Player, so I couldn’t use your clip. But I tested this with another clip and it seemed to work:
Time Remap your layer but don’t change the keyframes. This should allow you to extend your footage in time without adding any actual time remapping. Now use Timewarp. Best of both worlds.
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That generally means that you are using a plug-in or effect that you haven’t registered. It puts an X through your composition to encourage you to pay for it if you want to use it =)
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[Zvi_Twersky] “This is the effect I was trying to get from the timewarp. I don’t think Time Remap can produce this kind of quality slow motion.”
I tried duplicating your problem with timewarp, and with the 5 keyframes set up properly I couldn’t duplicate your problem: it worked exactly the way you wanted it to. I’m not sure if there’s something else I don’t know about your circumstances?
About Timewarp vs. Time Remap:
I haven’t messed with Timewarp enough to know for sure but from looking at the effects settings I’m betting the reason it gives such good results is a combined factor of A) Method: Pixel Motion (this is probably the same thing as enabling Pixel Motion frame blending for a time remapped layer) and B) More advanced vector calculations to come up with better results for the Pixel Motion… B is probably what gives it an edge over Time Remap.
I don’t know the inner workings of the effect, however I can tell you that after some preliminary attempts with Timewarp I did have better results with super-slow motion than I did with Time Remap and Pixel Motion Frame Blending, but on a very ‘active’ scene (this was a headbanger throwing their hair around) the results were still unsatisfactory and not that much improved over the Time Remap.
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I’m guessing this is you experiencing parallax (a natural phenomenon) inside the virtual world of After Effects, but I could be wrong. If all of the layers are 3D layers (as it sounds like they are if you’re using a camera) are the newspaper layers close to the map layer in Z-space (depth, do they have a similar Z position value)? Also, just to get our terminology entirely clarified, are you only zooming (animating the zoom value) or dollying/tracking/panning (animating the position/point of interest/rotation values) as well?