[Ernie Geefay]

Thanks a lot!!!
I guess the free version of Sketchup doesn’t export UV coordinates
I’ll take a look at custom edges and see what I can design using Invigorator

Ernie

[Ernie Geefay]

Serge
That link should be working now.

Missile

I appreciate any suggestions you can give me
Ernie

Ernie

[Ernie Geefay]

Someone on this forum introduced me to “KeyEd Up”
I think it’s for CS4. It’s free
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1698043
It’s been really helpful for remapping keyboard shortcuts for the macbook when you don’t have a keypad

Ernie

[Ernie Geefay]

I did something like that on a low budget auto shoot
I live in Northern California. The client is in Southern California.
We didn’t have the budget to fly down and shoot actors standing next to their cars…so I just got a bunch of actors together at my house, set up a green screen background, put a white “X” with tape on one corner and shot the actors one after the other…panning the camera slightly.
Got all the actors done in under 30 minutes and key’d the cars in (from stock shots and brochures) the background using motion tracking feature in AE

Here’s what it looked like.

https://www.egeefay.com/espublic/ToyotaOfTheDesert/default2.htm

Hope that helps

Ernie

[Ernie Geefay]

The new link for popcorn island is
https://www.popcornisland.com/category/after-effects/
It seems to work with AE CS4.
Although it doesn’t seem to import any effects (dissolves etc) that you’ve done in your FCP sequencde…just the footage (and handles) plus audio
But it’s free

Ernie

[Ernie Geefay]

We shot on beta SP with a soft filter.
Edited in media 100
Exported into after effects 7
Exported out of AE 7 to an flv file using
Best settings 640×480

[Ernie Geefay]

Hi
I found the answer to my question here

The problem was that I needed to import a certain code and css file into my dreamweaver project. Once I copied to correct code, my greenscreen video appeared the way it should on my web page
All you need is after effects to make the flv file with alpha channel…and dreamweaver or any html editing program
I thought I might need to buy Flash 8 but that isn’t necessary
Here’ the tutorial. It also has the project files so you can try it out yourself.

Alpha Video and HTML: How did they do that?

[Ernie Geefay]

Thanks Todd
I went through the articles (one appears to be for AE CS. I have After efects 7)and tried to mimic each step but still end up with a video with a white background instead of a transparent one on final web page
Not sure what might be the problem

[Ernie Geefay]

That did the trick
Thank you very much.

[Ernie Geefay]

When I try to lay out the letters along a circular path in illustrator I get an uneven looking sentence when I try to open the file in invigorator and rotate all the letters to stand up facing the viewer
https://www.egeefay.com/espublic/inivigorator1.jpg

The reason appears to be that the letters are not centered straight up and down when they are opened in invigorator but tend to want to lay diagonally
https://www.egeefay.com/espublic/invigorator.jpg

I tried straigtening out the letters one by one but it’s not an easy fix.

Wonder if you had any suggestions to make it work