Jason Mckee
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After Effects Coins
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COW Coins
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No. everything’s normal. nothing weird. and it looks like it’s not changing the out to the tail but rather keeping the duration of the shot but just changing the in to the head. I’ve noticed weird things like this ever since we upgraded to the new final cut.
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“at random it will change the clips in’s and out’s to the head of the clip.”
I meant to say it changes the clips in’s and out’s to the “HEAD” and “TAIL” of the clip. Thanks.
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I’m not sure how Lux would give me this effect.
https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/volumetric-lights/
I need it to look and react like this but hide the layer producing it. Lux just takes 3D lights and and visualizes them. I would end up needing 100+ lights (using Lux) to do this same thing, would I not? I would also have to track all of these shots in.
Here’s the idea I am going for: I have a jet leaving an aircraft carrier and the camera is attatched to the back of the jet pointing back at the carrier. I need to give the clouds light rays that we pass through as the camera/jet continues its flight.
I have tried using all of the light rays plugins and effects in after effects but they just end up looking really cheesey. The only way I can think of doing this is to create a 3D layer with fractal noise animated on it, position it in the sky, track it in, and then use the same technique Maltannon used but instead of transforming it to get rid of that layer, I would need to hide that layer once the “Volumetric Lights” are created. I have never done this before but I would hope there was a way to do this. Thanks for all your help on this.
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Yeah you re definitely limited to Z space movement and just a tad bit of X and Y movement but it can be a pretty cool technique. I know they used this technique quite a bit in Avatar when creating the wide shots of the vast terrain:
https://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep082.mov
Within the first 15 seconds of this video you can see how WETA (using Nuke) just created a matte painting and then 3D Camera projected that image onto a 3D mesh to give them some realistic 3D paralax by adding a slight 3D camera move to the scene.
haven’t tried it yet but I was just curious if After Effects now, by using Freeform can essentially do the same thing.
-jm
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sorry I’m not sure if I explained myself clearly. I essentially want to do this:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_camera_projection_2/
but with 3D Camera projecting onto a 3D mesh as opposed to a 2D plane which is actually closer to this:
https://www.3dfluff.com/cameramapping/cameramappingtut.htm
I’m just curious if I would be able to use Freeform to create the mountains in the distance like in the second example. thanks.
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Okay cool. I was doing it right. I just had to be sure. Also the shot I was testing it on wasn’t very ideal since it had no clear difference between the channels. Thanks.
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Do you know what it will be called? I can’t seem to find any info on it. Thanks.
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if this worked this would be exactly what we need but on our system this hasn’t worked. any ideas why it isnt? everything i read says that the control period shortcut should work as a batch but its only working for single clips. not sure why. thanks in advance.
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Alright so I found what I was looking for. I don’t know how I hadn’t seen it before but… when you have a clip selected in the timeline then right click and go down to “collapse multiclip”. this will then get rid of the unused footage. it wont actually delete the media it will just not use it in the timeline. not sure who i am actually helping here but I thought I would give an update. thx
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OK, so it would be L on track 1 and R on track 2 and so on. If that’s correct then I have been doing it correctly. I just wanted to double check. Thanks.
-jm