[Graham Quince]

I use it (and love it), especially when I’m outputting from Particle Illusion which gives me the alpha channels I need and I have never seen any artifacting with even the ‘smokiest’ of particles.

Graham

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Thanks for all the help guys.

Jan, the trouble with using the compression stretch settings is the output includes the nasty black and white blocks recorded from the original picture. Resizing in AE we don’t scale down to see the overscan area.

Dave, I’ve looked before for a batch program and ended up using AE. I wish PPro would just do batch.

Andy, that’s a great site, very useful to have all the scripts together,

thanks again everyone

Graham

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That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Adam

Graham

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My guess and it’s only a guess is that they’ve used the same technique that is used in ‘Heroes’. That show has developed poseable metal rigs which can support actors in unusual/impossible positions then they’ll have had to run a 3D tracker program like Syntheyes in order to add all of the visual effects like explosions, glass and fire.

Very, very clever and incredibly labour intensive.

[to update my own post] The microsite for the campaign features a making of – https://www.philips.co.uk/cinema

Graham

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Thanks so much for all the adivce guys. I’ll try each out and see which works best. In the meantime though, we’re fiming other experiments later today, and are going with natural light.

Graham

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Thanks Filip. I never considered that it would a lighting issue. The lights were typical classroom strip lights. I do have a couple of studio lamps, but your daylight suggestion seems the easiest option.

Graham

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Hi Rajarshi,

Try using the corner pin tool. Track each corner of the paper separately, apply corner pin to your ink bleed video then use the pickwhip to link corner pin coordinate to the corresponding corner. That should hopefully solve your problem.

Graham

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There’s no speedy way to do this. My best suggestion would be to use photoshop to recreate the missing background, then track and scale that background over the wood before rotoscoping (or animated masking) the wood out.

Because of the speed and length of shot, I’d be tempted to do it all by eye as setting up either a 3D or 2D tracker will take almost as long.

Graham

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Personally, and it may not be the best way (but it works for me) is to use the Boole tool. Create a cube and place it where the majority of the primitive is inside your model where you want your set to be. Then drop both the ship and the cube into the Boole.

It’s set to A subject B by default, this should cut out a cube from the ship, which won’t be quite right for your needs, but try the other drop down options. I can’t remember which setting I’ve used before to create interior sets, but this method works for me.

Graham

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A cheat would be to use the Beam effect in AE. You can get a fair approximation of lasers with it, especially if you use the layer with Beam on it as a luma matte for a layer with Fractal Noise.

Graham

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