Jeff Bonano
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Your request is a little hard to follow, but I’m willing to take a stab at it to see if it’s what you are trying to do.
If you maybe take some fractal noise footage that is loop able, then maybe adjust the colors so you have only black and white (it really depends on what look you are going for) you can then place the footage you want to “project” and apply a luma matte using the fractal noise. If you play with the look of the fractal noise enough, you might get the look you’re looking for.
If you are planning on having the image show on the ground as if the image is the shadow or something, First have some footage of the ground and then just apply your “projected” footage as a 3D layer and line it up with the ground and adjust the opacity so it looks, I guess, more realistic. Take it a step further and make other adjustments to fit your need.
Again, it’s hard to figure what look you are going for, but what I imagined it to be is something like a shadow puppet look but the shadow is the footage you have and the puppet is the leaves from the trees? Of course there are easier ways of doing that effect, but without a better idea, I’m just shooting a process at you that might help lead you in the right direction.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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It looks interlaced to me. The images in the background are not moving or hardly moving, but the hand moving from side to side and the red tomato is making it more evident of the video being interlaced.
Your monitor will show lines from interlaced footage and not on a regular TV because TV’s traditionally display data as interlaced.
Your Computer Monitor is displaying images as progressive and therefor you can see it.If you recorded it as interlaced footage on the camera then you could try de-interlacing it, but be warned that the quality will diminish.
Try playing the image back on a normal TV and see what happens, If it is meant for computer display, then you will probably need to de-interlace it.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Stuart pretty much summed it up but, just as a side note with the camera tool:
If you are new to After Effects, learning shortcut keys now will help in the long run. Pressing the “C” button on your keyboard will quickly cycle through the different modes for the camera. When you are done, using the the “V” key will return your cursor back to the pointer. Learning these shortcut keys will help you out a bunch especially when you need to Rotate “W”, Move the whole comp without effecting anything “Spacebar”, check your Safe Zones “‘”, etc…
Just wanted to point that out because if you start using the camera a lot with 3D objects or anything else for that matter, while building your comp you will save a lot of time if you learn how to use shortcut keys.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Well after our first test run, Here is what we came up with for a quick bit. The character is more detailed than a 8-bit character, but it still seems to fly. Our next step is to add the character with more moves, add player 2 (I’ll probably play a Mario style character because of my belly), and a more familiar game setting.
Kudos goes out to my good friend Sam Koepnick for allowing me to shoot him with a digitizer gun and trap him into this intense video game world!
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Cool! that just might work for me too! The project starts this weekend so I’m even more excited than before and can’t wait to get started. Thanks for all your advice!
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Thanks for all of your input! Sounds like this is going to be a fun challenge! If it turns out, I’ll be sure to post it for people to see 🙂
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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My suggestion would be to just enable time remapping in AE make your adjustments with the speed there, then you are already set up to render the comp as a .PNG sequence.
I wouldn’t suggest using Premier first because you might be dropping some of the quality depending on what you render the clip as before you send it to After Effects and you are doing a lot of work that you shouldn’t have to do. AE is powerful enough to handle your clips unless it’s a raw DV clip, then I’m not sure because I’ve never tried raw DV in AE. But i digress…
I think it would save you some time and frustration just using After Effects. Granted it’s not the best to use as a NLE, but for what you are using it for, it should work.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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I have the same problem with my Z5U and the memory recording unit I use my CF cards on.
The problem I’ve found is that Premier doesn’t handle the large HDV files well when it captures. If you record in DV I’ve gotten picture, but not when I record in HDV. Try setting the device from an accurate Sony model camera to the general Sony. That’s what I did because the Z5U isn’t even listed as a device type.
Another problem is that from what I’ve found Adobe hasn’t made any updates that solve this problem. When I capture, I have to do it blind until I look at the saved captured files. Which is why I got an HVRMRC1K to help ease the pain.
I know my advice isn’t much help, ’cause I would like to know if there is a way to fix it too. But maybe it will help you figure a way to work around it.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Hi Michelle,
The nice thing about encoder is that it has a lot of presets. If you select MPG2-DVD, the next pull down should have the option for Wide screen. If you want, you can fine tune the settings, but most of it is already optimized for general use. Play around with it and see what you can come up with if you like, but I would stick with the presents to start. Hope that helps.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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One thing I did was make a “Zony” Television and then showed someone flipping through the station with a remote. Each channel was actually used for a different kind of photo slide show, but you could implement different things on each channel. It was a lot of fun to do, plus it looked really cool in the end.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano