[Jarrick Harris]

if you can see the edge of the green screen at all, it might provide a reference point.

Also, if there’s any variation in the green screen lighting, you might be able to use it as a fix.

it might be worth playing with the warp stabilizer as this can stabilize the moving person and may give the affect you’re wanting.

[Jarrick Harris]

well, I eventually found something that worked for me – so anyone else having similar trouble could try out this work flow:

1. stabilize footage setting stabilization to “no motion”, framing to “stabilize only” and checking “detailed analysis”
2. add a new solid layer to comp, draw your mask on that and keyframe to the stabilized footage
3. pre-compose the solid mask layer
4. in the main comp, change the warp stabilizer settings, in the advanced section, to “apply motion to target” and the target layer you want to pick will be your pre-comp layer with the mask.
5. finally, click off the eye of the pre-comp layer to turn it invisible.

[Jarrick Harris]

I can’t get that to work.

Does it matter what order the layers are supposed to be in? I have:
Adjustment layer
solid with mask
stabilized footage.

And then I copy and pasted the warp stabilizer underneath the original one on the footage layer – then just changed it to reverse stabilization. should that have worked?

[Jarrick Harris]

Thankyou very much. That’ll help a lot.

[Jarrick Harris]

Ah yes – I didn’t realize frame blending could be pixel motion – that seems to work out better.

Thanks guys

[Jarrick Harris]

My guess is that they’ve used some effects in photoshop to make still pictures of each character or item and then animated it in something like after effects.

There are some plugins that can turn a picture into that style of drawing, such as Andromeda Cutline. There’s Akvis Sketch or redfield Sletch Master for a basic pencil sketch effect. You can also use blend modes and coupled with patterns and other effects to build up your picture into something similar. You can also use Illustrator to create some of the cut line effects.

Looking closer at the animation, there’s only a few individual bits that make it up – the wale, the tenticals, the octopus, the globe, the ship and not much more. If I were to try and reproduce this, I’d be quicker to just draw it all by hand on paper, scan the images, cut them up and polish them in Photoshop and then animate the bits in After Effects.

[Jarrick Harris]

Yes I’ve tried it as you have described and it states “Recording” but still nothing is recorded.

However, I just went into Audio Hardware in the Preferences and noticed that the Default Input, Default Output and Master Clock show:
Microphone (ASUS Xonar DX Audio Device)(Not Working)
Speakers (ASUS Xonar DX Audio Device)(Not Working)
Out: Speakers (ASUS Xonar DX Audio Device)(Not Working)

Which is strange considering it works with other devices – I’ve just tested it out in Audition and it works fine.

I’ve just created a new project in Premiere and voiceover is recording fine, so it looks like it’s an error somewhere in that particular project.

Here’s the solution: To Save As in a different name/location doesn’t make any difference. What did work is to select the clips on the time line and press Control C to copy. Then close the project, open up a new one and Control V to paste all the clips into the new timeline. This seems to have solved it, whatever the problem was.

[Jarrick Harris]

Hi,

The video footage is in MP4 format (I think H264)and can stay like that – I’m only going to be playing this on the pc. The audio are wav files. Other MP4 movie files I’ve come accross have multi language audio options without separate files so I guess there’s a way of combining it all – You may be able to tell that I don’t have much of a clue about all this.

[Jarrick Harris]

Thanks for the reply,

it’s a pity it’s not possible as it would be a handy feature for those who don’t have separate pc’s just for rendering and would protect against crashes or power cuts etc.

cheers

[Jarrick Harris]

I tried switching to multitrack but there was still nothing there – the only files available in the files panel was the .sesx and a .wav of the audio (no movie files) and it doesn’t automatically open up in multitrack.

I’m afraid I’m only just learning how to use these programs – could you help guide me in a bit more detail?