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Graham Quince
July 9, 2017 at 9:23 am in reply to: Air Traffic Effect

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of particular, but it’s expensive for hobbiest. Admittedly very reasonably priced for professionals.

CC Particle World is worth exploring – it’s included with AE and can fake 3D lines too.

Andrew Kramers’s tutoral on 3D Stroke effect will give you the basics

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
July 9, 2017 at 9:16 am in reply to: Rotation in Adobe After Effects (Elements 3D Plug-in)

Normally I’d say try the orientation settings.

It might be that the software has glitched or something, as your screenshot shows an orientation of 43 degrees on the x axis already.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
July 1, 2017 at 9:39 am in reply to: Ring Effect without Particular?

Do you mean the flame effect, or the rings coming out from the centre?

If it’s the firey effect, then Particle World/Fractal Noise with Vector Blur will get you close.

If it’s the rings bit, then you could either create a bunch of 3D solids in a tunnel and fly a camera along it (more control) or you could use the Radio Waves effect. Radio Waves will even take the contours of a pre-comped flame and use that as the tunnel’s shape.

Tutorials that might help:

Video Copilot Energy wipe
Video Copilot Shockwaves

I haven’t been able to find a tutorial on radio waves, but this YouTube video shows what’s possible – Radio Waves

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog

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Graham Quince
June 19, 2017 at 9:06 pm in reply to: 3D Point Control to 2D X,Y

Works brilliantly. Thanks very much – I lost hours on Sunday looking for the answer.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
June 17, 2017 at 10:10 am in reply to: Videocopilot VC Reflect

Andrew Kramer’s plugin makes this easier for you, but it’s entirely possible to do reflections using duplicated layers or the mirror effect (See Eran Stern’s tutorial here on the cow)

Before Andrew created the preset, he made this tutorial for CreativeCow which I’d guess is what gave him the idea for VC Reflect

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
June 17, 2017 at 10:01 am in reply to: Trapcode Particular transition

There might be a better way, but my first instinct here for your re-materialisation bit would be to pre-comp the effect in reverse – that is have your figure dissolve into particles, then time reverse the pre-comp.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
March 26, 2017 at 11:28 am in reply to: Save frame output different from preview

Given you’re working at such a high resolution, the difference might be simply that the preview is not displaying at Full quality.

I also had a really stupid thing recently where somehow my comp settings had a resolution set to Third, so even though i was creating at 1920, my outputs were at 650-ish. It took my an age to spot the issue, no idea how it happened.

If the final renders are fine and it’s jsut the still images, you might consider FX Console from Video Copilot. It’s a free plugin and includes the ability to take still images from the preview window:
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/10/new-workflow-plug-in-fx-console-is-now-available/

Hope that helps
Graham

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
March 26, 2017 at 11:12 am in reply to: Halt and Catch Fire Main Titles

There’s a really in-depth interview with the the director and lead animator of the HCF title sequence over at Art of the Title – https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/halt-and-catch-fire/

In a nutshell, they repeatedly over-processed the images of the cast saving by pixelating sections of the photos.

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
March 26, 2017 at 11:06 am in reply to: Person to Particle effect

Hi,

When you say you haven’t been successful with keyed footage, have you tried pre-comping the footage. Particular can’t see the alpha channel when the key is applied in the same comp. Pre-comping should take care of this for you.

Graham

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog
Graham Quince
June 3, 2016 at 2:49 pm in reply to: “Split Screen on Steroids” Effect

This reminds me of when I saw redacted movie 🙂 for the first time. The end credits were so different to me from anything else I’d seen (or at least seemed like it).

When I got the chance to get them inside After Effects, I used them as a base layer and replaced each element over the top, duplicating the movement, timing etc… Sure I ended up with a copy and hardly something I could claim as my own, but it was a great way for me to learn several new techniques and as Dave LaRonde suggests, it’s all about hard work.

Could you do similar?

http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
https://shiveringcactus.wordpress.com/ – FX blog

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