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Grant Swanson
February 8, 2009 at 12:45 am in reply to: Best quality color keyer for After Effects

Hi Joe,

Keylight is the plug-in that comes with After Effects and works well for most keying jobs.

If you need something more I really like Ultimatte, but Primatte works well too. Depending on your budget it’s probably worth just sticking with Keylight.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
February 4, 2009 at 10:39 pm in reply to: masking a clip

James,

Simple, just take the pen tool and draw the shape that you need around the footage. Animate the mask path if the footage moves.

For the doorway you could probably even use the rectangle tool, which will draw the sharp corners (you can change the degree of sharpness) and keep the correct 90 degree angles for you.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 30, 2009 at 8:53 pm in reply to: phantom keyframes

Hi Andrew,

Use one Hold Keyframe instead of two identical keyframes. This sort of thing is exactly what they’re made for.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 28, 2009 at 9:39 pm in reply to: Best Strategy for Improving Image Quality

I would check out books and articles on color correction.

Something else that may help is this tutorial that I created a while back:

Creating Digital Cinema

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 28, 2009 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Is ther a way to know which effect support Opengl?

Hello again Dotan,

In the Comp window, under the same menu you choose to enable OpenGL preferences choose Fast Preview Preferences. Click on OpenGL Info, this will show you what your card supports and doesn’t support.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 28, 2009 at 1:26 pm in reply to: OpenGl crashes

I will also add that the nVidia Quadro line of cards work much more smoothly with OpenGL than the GeForce line…so if you can switch like you say you can, it may or may not be worth a shot.

Again though, OpenGL is really only meant for 3D in After Effects, and it doesn’t always do a great job on that.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 28, 2009 at 1:21 pm in reply to: OpenGl crashes

OpenGL has very few good uses in After Effects. With the exception of working in 3D (and even this isn’t always smooth), you’d be better just turning it off altogether.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 27, 2009 at 10:48 pm in reply to: How do I remove the black background from a timelapse flower?

Hi Chris,

For this I use Color Key. Increase the tolerance, add a little edge thin, and a slight feather.

And, as Ben said, if the flower has black in it, you need to mask the inside part out.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 23, 2009 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Black and White with Color

I made a tutorial on this almost a year ago:

Sin City Effect

Hope you enjoy.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net
Grant Swanson
January 23, 2009 at 3:23 am in reply to: Nothing happens until I release the mousse button

Serge

Some how live update got switched off. Hit the switch at the top of the timeline panel to turn it back on.

Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
videoapex.net

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