Greg Neumayer
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A filter’s probably faster, but it’s not necessary if you want flexibility. You need to make 3 copies of your image, then isolate the red channel in one, the green in one and the blue in one using something like Channel Mixer on each. Then layer them back together (maybe the Multiply or Add transfer control?) Add a wiggle expression to the anchor point or position of your layers and Viola!
Channel Blur would be another filter you may want to play around with for other aberration looks. It basically blurs a specific color channel.
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I sold a couple things on Pond5, with the funds being deposited to my PayPal account. They have a non-exclusive rate of 50%.
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Here’s a script I did which ties a line between two objects, as well as provides a gap if you prefer not to have the line touch either object:
You can see it here, at :13 sec
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You’re in the After Effects forum, so I’m assuming you’re looking for an after effects solution. The good news is that you’re making it more complicated than it needs to be. Here’s what I would do, as step by step as I can think to describe.
1. Create the following layers: Layer 1: Your text, Layer 2: A colored solid, set to the size you want.2. Draw an over-sized round or square mask on top of your colored solid so that you’re splitting it in half. Imagine cutting a banana (your solid) in half with a large Tupperware bowl (your mask). This mask will extend quite a bit beyond your window edges.
3. Change the mask feather to be softened to your liking. Start with maybe a feather of 400px.
(4. If desired, animate the “wipe on” of the color bar by animating the position of your mask.)
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Attempting to use multiprocessing? While I work? I’m not familiar with being able to do so, but if it’s relevant, “Allow Idle Rendering” has been switched off.
Original Graphics card. No 3rd party’s.
No ray tracing.
memory:
Riser A: 1GB, 1GB, 2GB, 2GB
Riser B: 2,2,2,2Thanks for any input,
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In addition to what is listed, what would be helpful?
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I’m sure you’re beyond this project, but for the record, also check to make sure the importing machine is set to interpret an alpha channel for the incoming footage.
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I’ve had some surprisingly easy results creating in-cloud lightning by adding a soft-edged solid on ADD or maybe COLOR DODGE on top of the existing clouds in the shot. Clouds often have a lot of unnoticed texture until you highlight it with a burst of light, so the detail already there helps quite a bit with the effect. If you don’t have stormy-looking clouds in your shot in-camera, the most important thing you can probably do is prepare your shot with the knowledge that you’ll need to replace the sky. Where possible, look for clean edges you can either hand-mask or pull a key from, e.g. static building edges or at least good contrast.
Beyond that, for extra interest, instead of overlaying a solid and enhancing the underlying cloud structure, try it with another piece of cloud imagery or a fractal noise pattern. You’ll introduce additional texture that may make the shot more interesting.
Lightning also has the interesting effect of lighting the cloud from the opposite side you were just looking at. So, essentially it can look a bit “inverted” in it’s value (light/dark). Try taking a soft-edged swatch of the cloud in the shot, desaturate it, and then invert it’s values with Curves (so it looks like a black and white negative). Then, lay that back over the top of your existing cloud and uh…push the “finesse” button. You have the button, right? 🙂
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That’s a good idea. I’m so tired of watching the Render info spend 90% of its time saying “Compressing and Writing”.
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