Erik Waluska
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You can also export the camera data from 3DS max to AE.
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/02/import-3d-camera-into-after-effects/
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Why not just render out the text in 3DS Max using the same scene you created the video with? That way the camera move and lighting would match perfectly. Just render the text by itself and composite it in AE if you don’t want to render the whole thing again in 3DS. Should render pretty quickly if you optimize the scene and just use basic lighting and materials for the text.
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Yes, you can track the ends of the line in 3D space. Search graymachine.com for the toComp expression tutorial. I think he uses a beam effect in that example and that might work for your project as well.
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Great! Glad to help.
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The fact that some of the image numbers are missing from the sequence would account for the color bars since after effects considers those to be missing frames from the sequence and substitutes a placeholder (color bars) in for those images. Use the “force alphabetical order” option when importing the sequence and it will overlooks the missing frames.
Check that the image sequence frame rate is set to 15fps in the interpret footage dialog in the project window. If not, then set it to “assume this frame rate” and enter 15fps.
Then you can drag it to the new comp icon at the bottom of the project window and change the comp size to the size you want to export for editing in FCP (1280×720?)and set the frame rate to that of your FCP project(29.97fps?). Then resize the image sequence to fit in the comp size.
Now just send it to the render queue and render it out in pro-res or whatever format you want and the final movie should play at 29.97fps (or whatever you set it at) but the image sequence is still 15fps, which you can confirm by stepping through frame-by-frame and you should see that each frame plays twice (30/15=2).
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Select the text layer and go to layer>pre-compose and choose “leave all attributes…” option and also check “open new composition”. In the pre-comp, go to composition>composition settings and set the dimensions to match those of your main comp (1280×720?).
HTH
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You should probably post on the FCP forum if you haven’t done so already. After Effects can probably handle your jpeg image sequences much easier. Could you explain in more detail the problems you are having with AE, such as what format you are importing (pro res or image seq) and what comp settings and render settings, effects, etc. that you are using within AE. Color bars indicate that there is footage missing. Did you perhaps move or rename any of the images after importing?
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What effects are you applying. Is the layer you are applying them to a precomp or just a flat layer? Does that layer have only text on it or does it have a background as well. There is no screenshot in your post but that would be helpful.
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Could you post a CS5 version of your project file?
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That’s definitely possible. As long as it looks correct in the final I wouldn’t worry about it.