James Henley
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Hi Ben,
If you want the outline you create to completely match the shape of the masks, then probably the easiest way to do this is to apply the ‘stroke’ effect, which will place a line over your mask shape which matches the animation.
Otherwise you could draw your line using the pen tool (which creates a mask) then apply the ‘stroke’ effect. To animate, hit ‘m’ in the timeline panel to bring up the mask properties, click on the stopwatch next to ‘mask shape’ then adjust the shape/add keyframes over time as you would normally.
There may be an easier way, in which case I’m sure someone will be along soon to say!
James
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There’s lots of different effects in that video. Which one do you mean?
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Joe,
Are you familiar with the ‘effects control’ panel which should pop up when you apply an effect to your footage? If it doesn’t then try pushing f3 to make it appear.The first two parameters under the lightning effect are ‘start’ and ‘end’ points, both of which are adjustable and can easily be keyframed using the tutorials Michael’s already pointed you to.
If you’re new to after effects then it’s well worth watching as many tutorials as possible (whilst leaving plenty of time to play around and try things for yourself). Even if you think you know something already, tutorials will often highlight tips, tricks and shortcuts which can make life quicker and easier. There’s loads out there but Andrew Kramer’s basic series wouldn’t be a bad place to start.
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Depending on what type(s) of files you want to play, you might be able to do it all directly from the timeline of your NLE. I’ve done this before using Premiere – output through the firewire then used a canopus advc-110 to convert the signal to analogue and sent this to the video input on the projector. Not the most flexible solution in the world but for what I wanted it worked brilliantly (and was free!)
James
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Hi Mike,
If you look at the composition panel there should be a drop down box which says ‘active camera’. Change that to ‘custom view 1’ then you should be able to use the orbit camera/pan tools to look around your model.
To the right of that box is another one which usually says ‘1 view’. Have a look at the options in there -you can set up composition panel so that you can see the composition from several different angles at the same time.
Hope that makes sense and is of help!
cheers
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Hi Michael,
How did you create the billowing cloth? Can you post a short clip or screen shot so we can see what you mean by ‘fence’?
James
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Hi,
You can animate an adjustment layer in 3d space – just turn on the 3d function for that layer then treat it like any other. However, if you try this with something like the Rain effect on that layer, you’ll see that the effect doesn’t animate with the layer. All you’re basically doing is changing the size/shape of the ‘window’ through which the effect can be seen.
If you want to zoom into the rain or animate the shape/perspective of that, then I think you’d be better off putting the effect on a solid black layer and changing the transfer mode to ‘screen’. This probably doesn’t make any sense but have a play and hopefully you’ll see what I mean!
james
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It would take a while to get used to, but i think this could work well for editing:
https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
J
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Can’t remember if its the same in earlier versions, but in Powerpoint ’07 you can save one or all of the slides as image files (file > save as > other formats > select jpg or whatever from dropdown list).
Hope that helps.
James
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Hi Ian,
It’s probably not ideal for this project, as it would be v time consuming to set the keyframes for every step, but if you use the ‘Pan Behind’ tool to move the anchor point the position values are automatically adjusted so that the object stays in the same place.
cheers – James