[Graham Macfarlane]

I think John implied making the material shorter by suggesting to do the “edit first”.

For an edited 3 minutes worth of footage, a roto approach, as John has described, should do the trick.

Which RedGiant plugin were you intending to use? One of their keyers?

Since the actress’s face is a light colour with some bright reflections, which are close to the white of the sign, keying might be a little tricky.
Keying could perhaps be used to quickly generate the loose matte John mentions and could even help speed up more detailed keying or roto if required. It all depends how much the lighting changes on the face with respect to the sign.

Graham Macfarlane – CGI specialist
Elyarch Ltd – London UK

3D Studio Max | Vray | Pflow | PhoenixFD | After effects | Mocha

[Graham Macfarlane]

You’re welcome!

Graham Macfarlane – CGI specialist
Elyarch Ltd – London UK

3D Studio Max | Vray | Pflow | PhoenixFD | After effects | Mocha

[Graham Macfarlane]

Hello Ola,

Expand the paint effect so you can see all your brush strokes (Brush 1, Brush 2, Brush 3 etc..)
Expand one of these brush strokes, then expand its stroke options. Now select all brush strokes (eg: select Brush 1 then shift select Brush 100)
Go back to that stroke with expanded stroke options and change the Diameter. This should change the thickness for all strokes selected.

Graham Macfarlane – CGI specialist
Elyarch Ltd – London UK

3D Studio Max | Vray | Pflow | PhoenixFD | After effects | Mocha

[Graham Macfarlane]

Hello Brandon,

Are you rendering your AE project from Media Encoder or directly within AE?

Graham Macfarlane – CGI specialist
Elyarch Ltd – London UK

3D Studio Max | Vray | Pflow | PhoenixFD | After effects | Mocha

[Graham Macfarlane]

Hello Romina,

I assume you need to remove the intraceuticals logo (replacing it with white)?
If so, there should be hope!

What duration is this shot?

Graham Macfarlane – CGI specialist
Elyarch Ltd – London UK

3D Studio Max | Vray | Pflow | PhoenixFD | After effects | Mocha

[Graham Macfarlane]

Your thoughts are much appreciated!

If I come across a way to deal with the issue inside AE I will post back here.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Thank you for the explanation Walter,

This will certainly help on some occasions, but unfortunately wouldn’t fit my workflow all the time for two reasons:

The 30 files/folders strong list is not AE specific, which may not be enough at times when many non AE tasks are performed in between AE sessions.

The second issue is that the folder paths are not included (unless you hover the mouse over the folder to check each one). I use a template folder structure for every project I work on, so, for different projects, the folder containing the AE files has the same name “05_post production”. Trying to find the correct project folder in the list could become time consuming.

Ideally I need to change AE’s default save as directory from:

Last folder explicitly navigated to
To
Location of currently open AE project

Perhaps there is a script for this?

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

Thanks Walter,

I’m on Windows 7.
Where can I find this “recent folders location”?

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

I can’t imagine what could cause this to happen, but in order to isolate the problem:
Try switching off one layer at a time to see which layer is causing the error.
Once found (hopefully only one layer), try turning off/deleting the mask to see if that is the cause.
If it is then either nudge the mask a pixel or so or remake the mask to see if the error goes away.
If not the mask then there may be a problem with your footage for that layer, on that frame.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK

[Graham Macfarlane]

That’s a really good idea! 🙂
Thanks Cassius.

Graham Macfarlane
3D animator and VFX specialist
London UK