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The only time I attempted anything like this, I quickly found the I need to have the 3D camera’s FOV match the projector’s ‘FOV’. If you have 5 projectors, I would have thought you’d need your AE cameras to have 360/5 = 72^o FOV. At a guess

But we also ran into problems of synchronising the videos. An installation I visited used individual mini-Macs (one to each projector) controlled by a single Mini-Mac, but being a PC head, that’s as much info as I got. We went with an approach of an extended desktop, but getting the video compression right was difficult.

If you do get this solved, I’d love to see the finished results and your solution.

Good luck

Graham

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I’d use The Smoother, it smooths out keyframes and often illiminates middle ones but retains the basic motion. It needs experimenting with but yields pretty good results.

Graham

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I managed to find the solution to this problem. I wanted to be able to see a video texture animate while in C4D editing, before rendering.

The option is ‘hidden’ in the illumination section of the Materials Editor window. If Animate Preview is checked, video will be scrubbable, although if the scene is too complex, C4D switches to wireframe. But it should help me out and anyone else searching these forums.

Graham

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We set up a tiny greenscreen studio at home, and though we shoot on a Panasonic 3CCD comsumer camcorder our setup might help you.

We bought a large (5″) 100W+ pearl sphere bulb for the ceiling lamp (I also took off the lamp shade) and three flexible-neck desk lamps. We place one directly behind the subject pointing up and towards them. The ceiling light provides general illumation and I use the other two lamps to migtigate the shadows by placing them parallel with the subject pointing at the wall. We use pearl bulbs in each lamp.

Hot spots do occur, but with a lot of tweaking you can get enough clean wall to shoot.

The biggest problem is the camcorder you’re using though. I’ve never got anything useful from 1-CCD, even rotoscoping can be awkward.

Graham

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That’s perfect, thanks Adam.

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I’m sure this solution is off the Adobe links postered further up, but a fix I tried (that worked) was to disable AE CS3 using OpenGL. 6.5 never seemed to have a problem with it, but CS3 crashed continously until I disabled that setting in the preferences. Don’t think i’ve had a problem since.

Graham

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There are two ways you can use AE’s native tracker though. Either create a series of nulls, parented to each other and each’s position set by individual track points. See Andrew Kramer’s excellent tutorial on Set Extensions to more information on that technique.

Alternately…track a point as long as it is on screen. Then just before it disappears, hold down ‘ALT’ and move the tracking boxes to a new point to track. Your original track point remains where it was and you can now continue tracking. There are problems with this technique though. For one, it would be very hard to run a reversed comparison track, but it is a quick shortcut. (I’ve got a feeling this tip is also from a tutorial, but for the life of me, I can’t remember who’s it was).

Graham

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I’d just like to echo all of the above comments, and wanted to let you know how much I have learned from you (I used those rounded TV corners just today infact).

Many, many thanks

Graham

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I had something similar happen recently (not with net render but with an upload form on a website). For me the problem went away a couple of days later when I updated my anti-virus. The IE plugin had developed a fault and was causing the repeated refresh. I hadn’t tried again straight away, so it may have been as simple as the restarted PC of course.

Graham

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That’s brilliant, thanks Adam

Graham

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