Glen Jennings
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My solution thus far is to run all my clips to compressor as HDV 720p30. I tested it with one clip and it plays back fine in the sequence without having to being rendered.
Let me know if you think this is not going to work or of a better solution. I appreciate your feedback!
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I think you’re right. I managed to create a sequence setting that fits the clip’s parameters but I still have to render for playback. It’s like editing blind!
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Well although you cannot really do anything to shapes contours of a mask, you can keyframe a masks expansion and feathering. Basically i playing with manipulating copied paths from Illustrator CS2s “Live Tracing” feature which has given me a lot of paths, a lot more then I would of create manually since it is analizing a vectorized color bitmap image.
I then copy pasted these paths into After Effects which interprets them as masks on a solid layer and lots of them.
So to my original question starts at this point where I have all these masks on a solid layer that make up this image I originally Live traced in Illustrator from a bitmap. Now I want to Key frame all the masks Expansion and Feathering but instead of “Select All Masks” I was wondering if I could parent all my masks from one Masks’ Key Frames. “Parent Mask”
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it’s entirely possible that i did use the motion trackings stabilization tools incorrectly. although i was following what was in the help app i have never used motion tracker before and i was kinda plowing thru it.
you say that it is pretty precise? what would be the quintessential usage for the motion tracker/stabilization tool?
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wow these are all great suggestions thank you guys a lot!
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yeah i’m using after effects 7
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Thank you Dave,
This is by far the most comrehensive solution I had. One quick question: This is going into an HD time line in Final Cut Pro and is a 1280 x 720 comp in After Effects, since HD has no fields, would that change how you would approach this?
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Well solved part of the problem by trashing render files and re-rendering.
Now it seems like there is a stability issue. When the card is just sitting there, and we are not on FCP but sending the computer signal to the broadcast monitor-it flickers with green lines.
Hmmm?
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I don’t need moving or “shooting” stars just some small twinkling points in the background of a still of northern lights
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Well would that mean that layers from a Photoshop file (.psd) would be considered something that has to be rasterized?
Basically of the 3 or 4 times i have exported an .swf file and it has played back slow, each AE project has usually had 1 or 2
animated Photoshop images with basic simple animations. And thats it.
Is there something I should do to the .psd before importing that into AE?