[Ej Hassenfratz]

Very exciting, Chris! Your promos on the site are awesome, I think we’ve only barely touched the surface of the potential of this plug-in!

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Knew it was something simple!

Thanks so much, Dan!

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

thanks so much for the input and advice!

maybe i should just start with a camera that is suitable enough for some 3d motion tracking? is an HDV cam good enough or am i going to run into the same quality issues as discussed about the greenscreen? probably not, right considering 3d motion tracking really doesn’t need perfect color information, just spacial data and sharp reproduction.

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Thanks so much for your response, it helped me realize what I was doing wrong here.
To generate some kind of randomness in the size and rotation to the object I wanted cloned all over the metaball object (it’s more of a blob than a sphere I wanted all over the surface of the object), i added a Random Effector, but didn’t realize that the Random Effector randomizes the spheres movement over time, thus creating the random movement. IS there a way to add the random effector that effects the objects on the surface once and doesn’t randomize it each frame but just adds an initial randomness to the position, rotation, size but doesn’t keep generating more random positions throughout the animation?

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

I’m having the same issue, only I have CS3 and 16GIGS of memory.

Renders take FOREVER since I updated to Snow Leopard.

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

If you use CC Ball Action and adjust the ball size, etc, add some glow and whatnot and you get a pretty believable matrix grid look. Used this many times.

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Ok, for whatever reason, and I dont know how…all of the Enable Animation switches got turned off…turned them on…works again. No idea what the hell i did to turn off all the animation…

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Thanks for your responses…

how would I go about getting the DVCProHD codec?

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Thanks for the quick response!

All I am seeing is DVCPRO and DVCPRO50…no DVCPROHD

Sometimes when I rendered out as DVCPRO and picked the 16:9, it would be kinda stuttery and also wouldn’t render out at the size I wanted it to. It would sometimes render out at 800-something x whatever. Meanwhile the dimensions the comp was in were 1280 x 720.

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc

[Ej Hassenfratz]

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I wanted, thanks!

Now to just wrap my head around that code…

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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc