Jeff Mcbride
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This will create the new render over your old one. Not a problem unless you need the old render. If you want to be safe just rename the file.
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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How are you animating the camera? Are you using the Camera Orbit/Track tool, parenting to a null and moving that, parenting to something else, or keyframing by hand? Regardless, make sure that you are keyframing both the Position as well as the Point of Interest. It also may be a spatial interpolation issue, try selecting all the keyframes by clicking Position and then right click one of them and set Spatial interpolation to linear. May not be what you want but could be what you expect. Let us know how you’re doing it if this doesn’t help!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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Hey Thanks for the help. I still seem to be having difficulties. It doesn’t seem to be so much a bad key or spill as just an addition of a color that was never there. (Though may be related to either of those two problems) I tried the spill supressor and the Change Color effect and both of them changed a bunch of skin tones through the image.
It’s not really that I still see green- it all appears to be gone, it’s just that the motion blurs change from a mix of skin tone/green to a maroon and I’m not sure where that maroon is coming from. I’m using the “Super Tight Junk Matte” idea if that is messing with anything (though I haven’t noticed problems elsewhere) Any other ideas? Thanks again for the help!
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If you have a static camera (or barely moving camera) your best bet would be to make a clean slate in Photoshop. Grab a few frames and piece together the scene without the cars in PS. You’ll still have to use masks to mask out cars but it can be pretty loose Rotoscoping. Start by making a mask of a car then jumping ten frames and making another, do this till the car is off screen again. Feather the mask a bit and drop some corner pinned text on the track underneath the car layer. This should work fairly well. With something like a racetrack you may even be able to pull a key and save yourself some time rotoscoping. Good luck!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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I’ve never heard of a way to do this, but if you’re working in a 400 comp layer my suggestion would be to color code layers and use the Shy layers to hide stuff. It’s the little guy poking his head over a bar on each layer, click that for any layer you want to hide and then click the larger guy at the top of the timeline. I would also recommend Pre-Comping stuff. If you’re working in 3D you can pre-comp something, then click the sundial box to Collapse Transformations so you retain the 3D. Good luck!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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To get true results you need a 3D tracker, Syntheyes is a good one, I think it’s $399. I think there’s a free one called VooDoo but I never did anything with it.
You could probably simulate with Perspective Corner Pin tracking in AE and get fine results. Then use the effect Corner Pin to match the corners of your image with the corners of your card. Good luck!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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If you only need a single frame with Layers do this:
Go to Composition –> Save Frame As –> Photoshop Layers
If you need all frames with layers, I believe this will do it for you, but haven’t tried it myself.
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers
Good luck!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com
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Is there an expression I could use to call up comps? I found this script:
It creates a new comp per spreadsheet line- not really what I want but i can make it work if I could slide through each comp 1-300 or so.
Any other ways to make the text work? I’m not concerned at this point with images anymore
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I’m basically creating an mp3 player. My goal was to copy an iTunes playlist into Excel so I have artist, track, album, time, etc info. I’d then like to use that info to fill in the layout of the player. I can do all of the expression controls and get it to do what I want, I just need to figure out the best way to get the text into AE so I can call upon it.
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So it’s not a realtime thing then? Is that the same for a text file? Is there a resource for the info regarding external text files? I’ve heard it was possible but I haven’t been able to find any information on it.
I’m thinking the image sequence idea would work with a slider and time remapping, so I’m less concerned about that than the text which I can’t find anything about. Thanks for the help again!
Jeff McBride
Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
LimeGreen
Chicago, ILhttp://www.limegreenproductions.com