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Ah crap, that’s what I was afraid of. It’s too bad that with all the cool stuff they let you make, they don’t give you a good way to show it to people too. Guess I’ll just have to deal.
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Also OpenGL doesn’t work the same in vista.
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Even ripped disc formats have the unfortunate problems associated with different bitrates. Save often when cutting them up.
I haven’t done this in a long time, because: even if you were the Director of Photography on each of those films, you still don’t have the rights to cutting them from a finished DVD into your own personal reel without the Producer and Distributor’s direct legal permissions.
The part you played in the capture of the original film is cool ,no doubt; but you can’t claim it ‘totally’ after it’s gone through post, unless you have legal rights expressly given by aforesaid parties. You should have gotten an unprocessed copy of it while still in it’s editing stage. That would have been a better representation of your work anyhow. Perhaps, you should try to do that from now on and build your own work library for future reel updates.
If it weren’t such a big deal to rip copyrighted films there’d be PA’s all over the globe cutting reels from finished DVD’s to promote themselves for having worked on those movies too. PA’s try anything to get an advantage in this cutthroat business. Heck, a crafty could do it and claim everyone was happy with the snacks and that was why the picture was so darn good. Actually that sounds like a plan. I’ll do that. I’ve been in craft service once.
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Use your Position keyframes, etc…
nearly every attribute in PP2 is keyframeable. If you don’t understand that answer look up keyframes in you Adobe manual. -
The idea and concept are much more common than you’re aware of. The way the effect is done is exactly what you wished it wasn’t. Cut your images into depth layers and position them into 3D space making sure to expand the background to make up for the holes and the distance wanted. If you do it right your final square on framing should appear to be nothing more than a picture.
This cut to depth layers is the technique used for years to create the illusion of depth in Lenticular images. I worked with lenticulars for almost three years. Trust me, if there was some easy plug-in to do it the right way, everyone would have it. This effect is slow and tedious to process some times, but it looks really cool, and other Techies will be jealous.
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If you have stock footage of various fires, you should be able to track them into the shots, wherever you want. I suggest using “additive” layer effects to mix the translucent fire plate with your forest plate. If you want, you could also try playing with displacement mapping to create the distorted heat-in-the-air effect.
I suggest renting a forest fire tape from your local library to use as a reference for what your shot should look like. If you get creative and have time to think about all the aspects of what happens in a forest fire, then track plates in to represent those things. Fire is a tricky beast. Not only is there flame, heat, charcoaling, debris, and destruction, there’s also the fluid effects of the changes in air density due to the heat. All these things are noticed subconsciously by the audience and mis-representing them for too long will be detrimental to the effect. Good luck. -
Cinema4D is one of the cheaper good 3d programs that’s fully AE compatible. You’ve seen it used for stuff like the Sports center-like tv transitions.
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If you you rotate the sphere instead of locking your camera’s point of interest, you’re not limited to a single camera angle. You could have cool stuff like your camera craning in to a rotating (world like) sphered surface then arcing up and rotating to match the head on angle needed to see the picture. Just remember to use easy-ease. ☺
Oh, and 130 key-frames is nothing in my book.
Back in my early days of AE I animated over 1000 individual leaves on a tree “growing” in from buds. Yes it looked cool, yes it took forever to render, but I didn’t know any better.
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Levels.
Check out “The DV Rebel” book at your local bookstore. that’ll give you a good feeling for AE’s uses before you jump in.
Oh, an if you have some cash on hand beyond the original investment…
Magic Bullet suite is the best you can get.
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If you make any html page in any program, whether it has animation, video, pictures, flash, anything… it can be used by Windows as a desktop wallpaper. if that wasn’t what you wanted to know, then rephrase your question.