Graham Quince
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Not really adding much, but it’s worth thinking about the ‘strength’ of graphics you include.
A few years ago, BBC World TV inherited BBC NEWS 24’s plasma screens for their new set. Unfortunately, News 24 had them monitor vertically, and suffered from screen burn, which could have been hidden except for the fact that World used them horizontally, the result was a vertical watermark still very visible at home.
Nice to know even the big boys get it wrong 🙂
Graham
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CC Ball Action is on the installer CD for After Effects 6.5. I can’t remember if you have to choose to install it separately, but if you do, that’s where you’ll find it. It’s also worth checking out Keylight and 3D assistants lite, which are also separate installs – if you haven’t already.
Graham
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That’s really great of you, Filip.
Just yesterday I was asked if I could do a CD case for next week. Now I get the morning off 🙂 – not quite, but you’ve saved me a potential headache.
Thanks
Graham
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I’ve had great success using CC Split for cartoon mouths. Use the animation assistant to create audio keyframes and use an expression pick whip to tie in the split value to the audio. You may need or want to add a multiplyer ( ie *10 ) onto the end of the expression if the mouth changes aren’t big enough.
Hope that helps as its a really easy (lazy?) method of doing cartoon mouths.
Graham
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I’ve had great success using CC Split for cartoon mouths. Use the animation assistant to create audio keyframes and use an expression pick whip to tie in the split value to the audio. You may need or want to add a multiplyer ( ie *10 ) onto the end of the expression if the mouth changes aren’t big enough.
Hope that helps as its a really easy (lazy?) method of doing cartoon mouths.
Graham
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As much as i love particle illusion, the problem with using its gun fire is that if your gun isn’t pointing at an angle that matches the library, you’ve got to start doing all sorts of things.
For quick, easy gunfire i use vector paint on a black solid set to color dodge or similar transfer mode. Basically, on the frame of your shot, draw a jagged ‘explosion’ oover the gun barrel. Make sure the vector paint playback settings are set to ‘current frame’. Then move one frame forward, and draw a smaller, but still as jagged new flash. And that’s it.
When you play the sequence back you get a nice, quick, undistracting shot. How detailed you make the flash is up to you, but as it only last two frames it doesn’t really matter.
I came up with this way of doing it after watching a couple of movie sequences on freeze frame.
Graham
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Thanks for your help guys
Rerendering with a duplicate layer with a small blur and setting the transfer mode to lighten worked a treat.
Graham
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I’ve non-branded P4 2.8 GHz with 1Gb of Ram and run AE brilliantly. It’s also a widescreen which gets around the two monitors problem easily.
The big benefit to me is i work on the machine at my desk and can take it home to render. I also use the laptop for presentations and have done ‘almost live’ greenscreen on it.
Graham
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