[Graham Quince]

I read an imterview recently with the Exec Producer of Battlestar Galatica, in which he talks about a flash back sequence they tried to do with Edward James Olmos. In it, he claims they tried to use post-production to digitally ‘youth’ him but the results couldn’t be used.

Doesn’t really help you, but sometimes it’s nice to know even the big boys can’t fix everything. Given the rugged features of EJO it’s not that surprising really.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Thanks Steve

Yeah I think that clears it up. Seeing as it’s for the DVD-Rom element, I think I’m going to try and provide Mpeg-1 as Andrew suggested with the Quicktime Animation / Quicktime Photo-JPEG codec depending on file size. His current EPK dvd is only 20 minutes, so I’m going to have lots of room.

Many thanks

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Thanks for the reply Andrew

I’ve never really used Mpeg1, but I have tried to use Mpeg2 – which screws up A/V sychronisation if you try to edit with it – highly likely if someone is wishing to convert the format. Does Mpeg1 have these compression issues?

Graham

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You could assemble the CT scans in 3D space separated correctly. You might want to remove all the black sections to see through. Would be interesting to see when you’re done.

You wouldn’t get a model exactly, but you would achieve quite a cool look.

Graham

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Hi Pete

I think this is possible to do in Premiere Pro, just not easy.

Drop in a copy of your video layer, no sound needed, just video. Blur it. Now you need to create a track matte of the person’s face. if they don’t move much, export a non-blurred still to photoshop and create a white blob on a black background image. The white blob being the person’s face. Save this.

OK, go back to your blurred footage and i think you need to add an effect to achive transparency. This is where I get hazy, as I haven’t used Prem Pro for this in years. Basically, you need to get PremPro to use the white blob as a matte and allow the rest on the blurred image to become transparent.

Hope that helps

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Funnily enough, there’s the Vegas filter.

Alternatively, you could create a series of solid with circular masks on them and use strobe to blick them on and off.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I think you can email yourself the video. That should get it onto your PC. You’ll need to check your phone’s manual to find out how to email.

Once on the computer, After Effects might be able to open the video, but if not, you’ll have to process it through something that can. Check out Virtual Dub. That software should probably be able to help.

Once in AE, you can either export the video as an image sequence, (in the output options) or apply effects in AE. Animating masks is probably the easiest roto option for you. Athough AE does also have paint tools

Hope that helps

Graham

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The trouble with AE is that it doesn’t do true 3D. As such, curved tunnel walls are hard to do. There are a couple of workarounds, but you’re probably looking at pre-comping the keyed greenscreen footage, followed by using Zaxwerks Invigorator and using that pre-comp as a reflection material. You’ll have to play around with this a lot to get the look right.

If you check out the cow tutorials you’ll find a good tut on making a tunnel and also a number on how to use Zaxwerks.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

It could be that you’ve accidently double-clicked on the layer you were wanting to change. In which case you won’t see any changes, as the layer pops up in the same window as the composition. It’s caught me out a few times.

Graham

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Just to check, are you definetly interpreting the footage in AE’s project window? Find the talking head, right-click and choose Interpret Footag… and change the pixel aspect ratio there.

Graham

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