[David Bogie]

[Sally Biasiutti] “My footage is Apple ProRes422 (HQ) in FCP and have done a QT export using the animation codec with millions colours +. “

Not following you at all, sorry. ProRes 422 doesn’t carry an alpha so where are you getting it and why do you think ProRes is part of your problem?

https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/ProRes01.php

Hizoner Tim Wilson sez: A codec with an alpha channel. Really? At least that’s how it looks from here. I’ve seen nothing anywhere saying that ProRes does support alpha, and several places that say it doesn’t. That’s okay for an output or archive format, but wouldn’t the lack of an alpha channel torch its usefulness for a whole lot of editing and animation uses?
Although indeed, discarding the alpha channel is a one way to get rid of a quarter of your file size on the spot.
Remarkably enough, only one question in The COW about this so far, and after 5 days, still no answer. So can one of you tell the rest of the class what you’ve found?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

[deborah edmeades] “It is a drawing of a human figure repeating a very simple move. I guess I could draw individual frames in photoshop and then import into FCP and cut together, but would like to learn what can be done in MOtion. “

Give yourself some credit. Motion is really hard to grasp. I never do anything inside Motion that I can accomplish more efficiently or with less frustration elsewhere.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

It’s easy in a conventional 3D scene: Your wall is a precomp. Your door is a precomped layer nested inside a mask in the wall precomp. Your character is a precomp placed slightly behind the door layer. Create a new comp called ROOM and put your Wall, Floor, and Lights in here. The light obviously goes on the other side of the door and wall. Put the camera in the room looking back at the doorway. Open the door and light will fall onto the floor casting lovely shadows of the doorway and your character assuming you have used the right type of light and set the object properties to cast shadows and accept lights and accept shadows.

But explaining how AE’s 3D works is beyond these little posties.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

How many graphics cards in yoru machine and how many are hooked up to monitors?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

KING HENRY VIII: It grieves many:
The gentleman is learn’d, and a most rare speaker;
To nature none more bound; his training such,
That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
And never seek for aid out of himself.

In sitting at your feet, the honor was all ours, Aharon, I assure you.

David Bogie, boise ID

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

LaRonde, nice link. I drop by that site often but can’t watch ’em all.
You know you can subscribe to that whole series through itunes?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

You’re trying to dissolve but the contents of the alpha channel are popping through, seems to me, but I’m not watching over your shoulder. Render two copies of the layer, one with your effects, one without. Do the dissolve between the two movies.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Create a layer that is the Maltese Cross gate mechanism and animate it to spin..

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

What keyer and what is your image format? If you’re shooting DV, you may never get what you want, just not enough resolution in that codec.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

I’d be using an animated fill texture that looked like embroidery.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”