Derek Shin
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Water doesn’t really run down a camera lens, unless it’s really pouring and compromising the actual shot(watch rainy news footage). It’s more natural when water droplets are stationary on the lens, blurred and displacing the footage. Don’t know how much rain is actually supposed to drench your shot, but how about really shooting water hitting/running down glass in real life? You could screen it onto your final comp, bulge it, add a lot of blur and some displacement…
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I second Studio Techniques by Mark Christiansen, it’s a standard for using AE in Visual Effects work.
I was nearly a noob myself just 2 months ago. Honestly, I ran through all of Andrew Kramer’s stuff on Video Copilot, paid for Lynda’s online training and read Studio Techniques. That, with the enormous help of fellow Cow addicts, and you’ll be up and running in no time…
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Aharon, where can I learn more about codecs and formats, I always get confused with this stuff.
Is it wrong to output H.264 from AE to bring into FCP? (my edited output would be an H.264 vid for the web).
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I had the same exact problem a few months back. Try spitting out another clean version from FCP with the exact settings needed. And make sure those settings match in AFX before import.
Even though my original vid “said” it had the right settings, spitting out a new clean version from FCP fixed it for me. I still don’t know what it was…
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Hey, never got to say thanks for everyone’s input. I love the Cow…
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Actually, this is really easy in AE. Where are you running into problems? You could use either the 3d stroke or Particle generator with a null object. Just animate out the stroke first coming out and around the picture. Then do your camera move last, keyframing and following your path.
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— After a few hectic hours, I found a work around (or fix?).
Somehow, AE was not interpreting the source file footage correctly even though all embedded info and settings seem normal. Just to check, I brought the source video back into FCP and it required rendering(?). Tried several sequence settings and could not get the source footage to read without rendering. So…I rendered and spit out another version. Looked exactly like the first, same settings, embedded info, PAR, etc.. But when I brought this newly rendered version back into AE, it was crisp and clear. Replaced the footage in AE and I’m back on track with my edit.
Looking at the embedded info in both my original source and re-rendered source, they are exactly the same. But the one I spit back out of FCP is being interpreted in AE correctly. Perhaps the original source file (which was given to me by the director) was rendered with some weird setting. Never trust the specs…
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— Quality set to best, PAR Corr and OpenGL is turned off.
Any other suggestions?