[Jeremy Allen]

I think I agree with Akber. It looks like green spill on his hair, although I guess it could be a lighting anomoly. But it could certainly be done easily with a simple lighting setup.

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[Jeremy Allen]

Well, first of all, if you don’t like how compressed it is, don’t compress it so much. Change the bit rate settings until you get something you like. 3Mb sounds highly compressed to me. If you can deal with a 30MB file size, you should be able to get a lot more quality out of the compression.

Secondly, Flash player 9 and above will now support playback of the H264 codec. To my eyes, H264 is far superior over FLV as far as the compression/filesize ratio. So if you can publish to Flash 9, that may be an option for you.

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[Jeremy Allen]

card wipe.

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[Jeremy Allen]

I’m not really sure what you mean by blocked, but I’ll throw in what I know about it..

make sure your wall and floor layers are 3d

make sure your floor layer is set to “accepts lights” and “accepts shadows”.

make sure your wall layer is set to “accepts lights” and “casts shadows”. If you don’t want to see the wall, and only want to see it’s shadow, select “only”.

make sure your light is set to “casts shadows”.

You can make those adjustments under Material Options for each layer.

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[Jeremy Allen]

I think I understand what’s going on, but I don’t really have any advice, except that maybe a screenshot of the problem will help others easily understand the problem.

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[Jeremy Allen]

Oh, you might’ve figured this out, but I forgot to mention… When you make your animation preset, it will be based on the animation of your first video. So, like the camera movements, you will need to go back and tweak the “hold time” of each video, so it animates out at the right time.

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[Jeremy Allen]

I guess it depends on how strictly you want to replicate the look. I did something similar a while back using an animation preset I made.

Basically, just animate one video however you want. Then animate the camera in and out. Now select all the video’s animated properties and save as animation preset. Put the rest of your videos on the timeline at frame 1. With the playhead at frame 1, select the un-animated videos and apply your preset.

At this point all your videos will be animated similarly. Now you’ll need to sequence them down the timeline. Now copy the camera keyframes and keep pasting them down the timeline for each video. Unless all your videos are the same length, you will need to tweak the camera animations to fit each one.

Did I get anywhere close to answering your question, or were you wondering more about how to actually animate/rotate, etc..?

Let me know if you need more help.

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[Jeremy Allen]

Right click on the camera and go to Transform > Auto Orient.

The “off” selection will give you a “free” camera.

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[Jeremy Allen]

Depending on the animation, you can right click on the keyframe and select “rove across time”. That action will even out the time on either side of the keyframe.

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[Jeremy Allen]

Ohhh, gotcha… no, I don’t guess the property names are selectable.

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