David Bogie
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Filip, I bow. Most excellent work. And a great use of another confusing filter, CC Blend. (Got anything to help folks understand CC TimeFX?)
Please see the post from Todd from Adobe asking for links to Cow resources to be included in the Adobe online help system for After Effects. Your description and sample movie should DEFINITELY be attached to the Slit Scan reference.
bogiesan
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Looks like hand drawn cels to me. Nice work, too.
We just had a short discussion a few days ago, try scrolling down. There are any number of filters or expressions you can apply to artwork to get this feel. But if you look closely at the best examples of this technique, you’ll see the wiggles loop. I like that but others prefer a more random effect. That stylistic decision is crucial to determining workflow.bogiesan
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Try google for SLIT SCAN EFFECT and similar text strings. There are some easy ways to simulate the original effect designed by Douglas Trumbull for “2001: A Space Odyssey”. it all depends on what you think slit scan should look like. The old illustration in AE’s manual has been a joke for a decade. it doesn’t do ANYTHING to simulate the footage in Kubrick’s film.
toi understand how time displacement works, you need a few hours to experiment with simple footage that maybe has a car driving slowly past a stationary camera. Use a simple black and white art file to experiment with the effects of the grayscale pixels on the car footage. Then try using a simple grayscale gradient. Note the word ‘simple” keeps coming up.
There were a few free slit scan plugs for AEv3+ but they have all vanished or been purchased by larger effects packages.
bogiesan
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Few weeks ago there was a similar demo piece mounted here on the forum. Scroll down many many pages till you see it, sorry, I can’t recall who might have posted it or what the title was so you search for it. It was a 3D construction with flying cameras, lots of effects and chromakey.
bogiesan
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q[Robert Desiderio] “Is there a magical trick that will take these intricate comps and key frames into a new 3o second time zone…..
“If you select all keyframes and option-drag the last one, they will all move in proportion with each other.
Umm, I don’t have AE open at the moment, you’d better check the modifier key before committing anything you can’t undo. Before you start, save a copy of your project!
Moving the keyframes to perform a 6-to-1 temporal compression is not a magic trick, it’s lame. None of your ballistics will be natural and none of your timing will make any sense but I suppose that’s your director’s problem. Why don’t you just precompose the whole thing and do a speed change? This will demonstrate how terrible things are likely to look.
bogiesan
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[Blahtor Magnus] “Problem is that it renders the raw files, without the applied effects.”
Your original post did not include the intimation that you might not understand the details and this is a common error, failure to understand the precomp process. See the manual and online help system. You must attach the attributes to the layers as your create the precomp, otherwise your effects stay anchored downstream in the main comp.
Precomposing and nesting become powerful conceptual tools as your After Effects experience grows. Understanding how they work revolutionizes your ability to pre-visualize, plan your workflow, and, ultimately, to instantly change those plans as your project evolves.
bogiesan
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Dan, sorry, I wasn’t addressing you directly, didn’t notice the indent on the thread till after I posted.
The OP:
[Matt Press] “Cleaner XL will not recognize FCP QuickTimes. Is there anywhere I can download a codec for this?
Thanks. -Matt”Who knows where to start on THAT question?
There are a bunch of codecs that you only get with FCP6 and possibly QT Pro. The PC will not have access to them unless the recent QT7.6 update includes some way to see them. I doubt it, too Apple-specific. Mostly, you export from FCP to the best codec your CleanerXL will recognize, least common denominator.
bogiesan
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Not since I was editing on 3/4″.
I’ll be interested in finding out how many of our readers even know what ADR is.bogiesan
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[Lisa Rolley] “I just got a QT file that is almost 8gb in file size HD 1920×1080 @ 23.98 and it was not playing down in FCP for some reason so i noticed that the alpha tab had defaulted to straight so i switched it to none/ignore. “
The file is probably using the Animation codec. There are almost no FCP configurations that are capable of playing back and processing Animation files in realtime.
bogiesan
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Cleaner XL is a windows application. You must have QT installed on the PC.
bogiesan