[Graham Quince]

Thanks for that Blast,

Does anyone know if OnLocation, Adobe’s acquired DV Rack, give audio monitoring during capture?

Graham

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We borrowed an amp with mix controls from the Music department. And on their advice have ordered a Tapco 120 Mixer, which on paper seems about the right level for us. My concern is that the audio right on the desk, seemed really quite quiet post-capture.

I’ve also noticed before that I often have to increase audio even from the camera’s mic. I guess our sound equipment may need adjusting up.

Thanks for the advice

Graham

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Do you actually need to pass stars in this 3D universe? If not, then you could use a flat star map and wrap it around CC Sphere. Then make that sphere enormous and put the camera inside it.

Just a thought.

Graham

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The way I’d do this is in reverse using shatter. Do the dot above the ‘i’ manually and have shatter break apart the you words and set gravity to be above.

Then bring that whole composition into another one and use time remapping or speed set to -100% to have it play backwards. then keyframe the dot in.

Hope the helps

Graham

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Hi guys

Thanks for the quick replies, sorry for the huge delay in responding, I foolishly posted this the day before my holiday, so haven’t been back to the cow since. When visiting another school’s studio they seemed to have a standard curved lamp and so I assumed it would be an easy matter. They spent

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There’s probably a way to use expressions to measure the camera displacement from a centre point and use that measure to pick which camera shot to use. But…I wouldn’t have a clue how to write an expression that complex and it might be quicker just to do it by eye.

Graham

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When I was asked for a shot needing a muzzle flash, I’d just watched Se7en. Right at the end of that movie, Brad Pitt points a gun towards the camera and fires a couple of times. When I went back and watched it frame by frame, it’s quite easy to reproduce the effect. And it only lasts two frames at most.

As the other guys have said:

1) Create a solid, onto that apply Fractal Noise, you can keyframe the evolution if you need to.
2) Apply Hue/Saturation and get the colour of the clouds to be a light yellow.
3) Draw a mask on that layer, so that it is roughly the size of flash you want to create.
4) Feather that mask quite a bit and set the layer’s transfer mode to Add.
5) What you should now have if a whiteout flash tinged with yellow on top of your gun.

You can now either animate the mask or the mask’s expansion for the second frame, but the important thing is to only show that flash for the smallest possible time.

If the shot is in the dark, you could also add a second layer heavily feathered adding light onto the gunman.

If you watch TV shows like Mythbusters when they’re using guns the camera sometimes doesn’t even pick up a muzzle flash. The movies stylise this flash, so the temptation is to copy this exageration. I’m guilty of this too, I’ll admit, but I think this effect best works subtle.

Hope that helps

Graham

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Yeah, that Syntheyes tutorial made a lot of sense, once you establish the camera movement and can be given the ground layer, all thework is done for you.

For home users, which I’m sort of half-home, half-professional there’s Icarus which is the precursor of PFTrack. I’ve no idea if it’s still available though

Graham

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That’d be great of you, thanks Maltaannon.

Will await with interest.

Graham

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Very nice effect, I can already see a million uses for that reverse stabilisation, in the past I’ve copied and pasted keyframes all over the place.

Thanks Andrew

Graham

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