Darren Gardner
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That’s great, Dan! This should really help! Is there an expression that works the other way – one that’s applied to the Shatter plug-in’s Z position that follows the 3D layer’s Z position?
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Great! Thanks for the help!
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Thanks for looking into it. It be great if I could use something like 3D Invigorator, but its not in the budget. I hope you can figure it out. Even something that’s close would help. I understand expressions well enough to modify them, but I can dream up new solutions like some of you can.
Darren5102
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South Carolina. Are we within your reach?
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Have you tried exporting your footage from FCP with the ‘Make Movie Self-Contained’ box unchecked? This will create a reference file to the original footage in FCP. No compression required.
You can find the box I speak of under ‘File’ -> ‘Export’ -> ‘Quicktime Movie’. Its at the very bottom of the dialogue window.
If your footage doesn’t look any better, chances are the problem’s not with After Effects. It either has something to do with your capture or sequence settings in FCP, or something to do with your camera.
Hope that helps.
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I’m in NTSC land as well and struggle with this same problem. Any more advice on the matter would really help.
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Thanks for the info. I did as you suggested in FCP. The Aspect ratio was set to “square” so I changed it to “NTSC-CCIR 601”. And “Anamorphic” was unchecked, so I checked it. I pulled the .mov into the timeline and it actually squashed the image even more! Thanks though, now I know of one more place to check.
I’m baffled on the AE side of things. I’ve done all I know how to do to resize the image (that is, without using filters that soften the image.)
This is probably a question for the AE forum, but you don’t know of any way to resample in After Effects like you can in Photoshop, do you? Just a thought.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the detailed response! It helped to know what I’m getting myself into going down that road. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner. You’re right, it looks like a pretty big mess to change all those settings for what is essentially a lower quality project.
I wanted to run this by you though, to see what you think. I may post it on the FCP forum as well. Here goes: I decided to render the full 2340×1560 comp out and then I imported it into FCP. Well, it looks great! The blurriness is gone! Only one problem: it squeezes the image thinner height-wise, and fatter width-wise. The image isn’t noticably distorted (like I said, it looks great!), but now I’ve got a blank area above and beneath the image. This isn’t acceptable. My instructions were to fill the screen with the image. (The image, incidently, is a two-page spread of pages in a book that I’ve animated to turn from page to page.)
In AE,I’ve tried adjusting the comp size to 3:2, changing the pixel aspect ratio to (0.9), and interpreting the footage to DVNTSC. All any of this does, is push the picture around inside the bounds of the image, but the boundries of the image itself never grow or shrink.
At this point, this is probably an FCP import question, but I wanted to send this your way in case there’s something I’m missing on the AE side of things.
Any response on the matter’s appreciated. Thanks!
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Great work! Thanks for showing very practical examples of how to put fractal noise to work for you. This I can really use! Thanks alot Aharon!
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Sorry. I probably should have provided more info. The screen shot is of the entire book, a twopage spread. The page on the right folds up and over, falling to the left. It appears that CC page turn wipes the turning page away completely, rather than following through to reveal the back of the page resting on the other side of the binding. Does that make sense?
With that said, are there any suggestions as to how I should smooth out the motion?
If there’s any info that I’m not providing that you think would be helpful to know, let me know.