Greg Neumayer
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Please include the specs of your machine (esp the known differences that may be causing the problem) for the archives, and the next poor soul who may have to deal with this. Thanks!
Antifreeze Design
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I should clarify, where I said “time-remapping quality” I should’ve said “frame blending quality”.
Antifreeze Design
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Steve,
We all start somewhere, and the answers to 90% of our questions here on the Cow are actually in our manuals somewhere. I think Dotan is here to try to learn those basics. Sometimes, though, the obvious just didn’t click in my head, which is why I appreciate being able to double check with people on the Cow. And, yeah, sometimes it’s a stupid question that I was just having a brain-fart about. If a question is too vague or general to warrant a private tutor, maybe you can direct them to the section of the manual that would be most helpful. Should we do our homework before asking general questions? Sure. But sometimes it’s hard to know if what we didn’t know was easy to know, ya know? 🙂
Dotan, you might also want to check into the Creative Calf, which is a section of the site for questions that would be considered part of learning the basics of AE. Check the manual section for rendering on how to get the output you desire. For input on what codec is best for what purpose, that’s a different answer for every movie destination. There’s a really great (dark-blue colored) website that has benchmarks for almost every codec under the sun, but honestly, I’ve lost my bookmark for it, so I’d appreciate if someone could repost a link.-Greg
Antifreeze Design
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There we go.
I had deleted some AE prefs in: me/library/Preferences/
which didn’t help,
but neglected to delete the pref at: me/library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/7.0/Adobe After Effects 7.0 Prefs
which seemed to do the trick.
Now to re-create my dark dual-mon look….
Thanks!
-GregAntifreeze Design
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Very cool. I’ll give that a try.
Thanks!
-GregAntifreeze Design
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Very cool. I’ll give that a try.
Thanks!
-GregAntifreeze Design
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the ‘optics compensation’ filter should work for the distortion, but I don’t think AE has a built-in fix for the aberration.
-GAntifreeze Design
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I had a similar project where the client wanted a “globe” tiled with the various clips. (ya know. the corporate video type of “world” animation.)
I simply took ALL their clips into a comp in AE, used the offset and overlap command to space them out and dissolve between them, then made sure that that sequence could loop seamlessly.Then, to make my grid, I just made a comp of the same duration as my long string of clips, laid out the grid of tiles, using the same footage for each tile. Moving to some random point of the timeline for each layer, I hit CMD-SHFT-D to split the layer, and I swapped the two pieces on the timeline. This puts your cut point at the end of your timeline, and butts together the start and finish (which should be already a seamless transition.) Keep splitting the layers in a different place for each layer. (there may be a super-easy way to do a time offset now with scripts so you don’t even have to split the layers)
When you’re done, you’ll have a grid of tiles that all use the same footage loop, but because of the time offset, they look like they’re showing different clips randomly.
-Greg
Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com -
I had a similar project where the client wanted a “globe” tiled with the various clips. (ya know. the corporate video type of “world” animation.)
I simply took ALL their clips into a comp in AE, used the offset and overlap command to space them out and dissolve between them, then made sure that that sequence could loop seamlessly.Then, to make my grid, I just made a comp of the same duration as my long string of clips, laid out the grid of tiles, using the same footage for each tile. Moving to some random point of the timeline for each layer, I hit CMD-SHFT-D to split the layer, and I swapped the two pieces on the timeline. This puts your cut point at the end of your timeline, and butts together the start and finish (which should be already a seamless transition.) Keep splitting the layers in a different place for each layer. (there may be a super-easy way to do a time offset now with scripts so you don’t even have to split the layers)
When you’re done, you’ll have a grid of tiles that all use the same footage loop, but because of the time offset, they look like they’re showing different clips randomly.
-Greg
Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com -
Unless you need all the exact measurements that software like that can provide, I’ve found that sometimes less is more. I use pencil and pen only, because it forces my client to focus on the framing, the action, and the description instead of the quality of the storyboard. I tried storyboarding with psd, or AE, or Illustrator, but not only did it take a long time, the client always seemed to get hung up on things like “Will it be those colors?” “Why does it look kinda flat?” or “It feels kinda simple”. As the artist of your own work, it’s easy to see beyond the storyboard, but for your clients… that’s another story.
Pencil and black pen have worked best to show them what I need to show them, without them getting derailed on the aesthetics of the storyboard. So, now I do a storyboard, and once approved, a move on to a style comp, which is a single frame that represents all the aesthetics that the storyboard couldn’t accomplish. Once they’ve also approved the style comp, I can move on to animatics with much less fear that they’ll say, “why does the animation look like the old arcade game, Battle Zone?” LOL.
I’m sure those apps are great. Just remember their limitations, and consider that for many projects, they won’t necessarily make your storyboard better.
-Greg
Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com