Jason Milligan
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Without a little ore info, I can’t be sure of your problem, but this is a safe guess:
Before you output a swf file, treat your symbol instances as “graphics,” not “movie clips.”
If you can’t see the animation inside of Flash before export, it won’t appear in AE either.
The Flash Player can read movie clip instances and display them properly, but Flash, AE, Quicktime, etc. will not.Import this swf file into AE and you should be good.
If this doesn’t solve your problem, let me know a little more about your workflow and I’ll see if I can help.
I have made a few animations in AE using swf files for character animation mixed with 3D camera moves and other compositing tricks. It is possible. -
Premultiplied may be the issue if FCP is reading it as straight.
I believe the setting in FCP is called “color” when using premultiplied footage from AE.
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OSX has been 64 bit for quite some time now.
The issue isn’t with the OS.Adobe hasn’t been able to integrate a 64 bit architecture into AE yet, although they assure us they are working diligently on it. It looks probable in CS5. So, you’ll be waiting another 2 years on either platform.
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What codec are you rendering to?
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It’s fairly easy to do.
Create a comp the dimensions of a comic’s page.
Add a white solid or a paper texture.
Above them, create another solid(s). Mask off the panels. Add a stroke to your masks.
Place the video clips beneath the panels layer. Mask them to fit the panels or use the panels layer as a track matte.
Bring this comp into a new comp set to your final video dimensions.
Move and scale this comp or create a 3D camera to pan and scan across it. -
One approach:
Use the wiggle expression with each parameter linked to an expression slider (one for frequency, one for value). In other words—add effect>expressions>slider to the layer twice. Option/alt click the stopwatch. In the expression field, type :
wiggle(X,Y)
where it says X above, pickwhip your first slider (this is frequency).
where it says Y above, pickwhip your second slider (this is value).Keyframe the values of the two sliders ramping up over the time period you want. Then apply a shatter effect or a particle effect when you need the text to explode.
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It depends on the individual project.
Think of it like a film set. Directors and cinematographers decide what is most practical and visually pleasing when deciding if and how to use a camera move. It’s the same in AE.
Different circumstances call for camera movements, object manipulation, or sometimes both.If you want a fly through of the digestive system, animate the camera.
Have debris flying away from an explosion? Animate the objects.
Most of the time, you’ll use a bit of both.There is no effect needed to move on the z axis.
Turn on the 3D switch for a layer and you will gain z position, z rotation, and orientation properties. -
There is also the concern of associated media, plug-ins, and fonts.
I’m sure what media you’ve used in your projects, but I’m sure lots of use stock photos and footage we aren’t legally allowed to distribute. -
Yep, that’s Flash.
Learn the actionscript necessary to allow input into dynamic text fields.
Then keyframe a bunch of dynamic text fields with preset paragraph and character parameters over an flv. -
I’d recommend looking up the “Sin City Effect” tutorials on this site as they should be fairly pertinent here. The lighting when shooting seems to be key here. High contrast lighting boosted further in post. Desaturated images with leave color effects applied and possible color replacement. The nice thing about “leave color” is you can throw another effect on top of it to change the hue to something else if necessary. For example: If you want your characters to be gray figures with green clothing, you certainly don’t want to dress them in green when you shoot. But if you dress them in red or purple, you can still key out the green screen, use “leave color” on the purple or red and then tint it green.
This is a really beautiful spot.