Joe Moya
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… use a 3D software to create your particles… heck, create the whole tornado in a 3D software for best effect.
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Create plane solid to any size you want.
set initial keyframe on rotation set at 0
then, another keyframe set at anytime interval you want and rotate it 360 degrees or 1
Chapter one of AE basics.
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Instead of a solid black layer… you might try a layer has some noise… by that, the layer may need have some shades of gray (which means the black layer has some characteristics which are basically a semitransparent matte before the opacity changes)… in fact, the layer may actually be an active/moving noise layer… which means you may need to find something like a cloud to create the matte for what you are using as a black layer now. Tough to tell exactly what could be used… but, you might need to experiment with your black layer.
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IMO, the original light source ramps up in intensity and the reveal intensifies as this ramping of the light source increases it’s intensity.
My feeling is that the light intensity’s exponetial increase in intensity is parented to the reveal layer.
Joe
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I’ve only been using AE for about a week
Wow… it appears you picked a project that requires a bit more experience than just a few weeks of using AE…it’s like hearing a song on the radio and picking up a guitar and deciding after only having the guitar a few weeks to play the song I heard on the radio played by a musician with years of experience… it can be done but it will not sound the same and will be a VERY difficult way to learn to play the guitar.
If I was you.. I would stick with the tutorials for a little longer before you tackle something as you details as the project you want to duplicate. If not… then, you’ll have lots of “fun” attempting what you are wanting to duplicate… in that respect, it will be one heck of learning experience or will drive you crazy.
Before you attempt this kind of project, may I suggest a few things…
One learn how to use masks… then, learn how to use maps and/or luma functions… finally, learn how to use the masks and map/luma fitlers with masks… none of those steps can be learned in one pass because there are so many various of these combinations.
Joe
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A couple of ways I have done this…
A simple way is to create a water drop like wave on a solid… if my memory is correct, I used my NLE (i.e., Avid/Pinnacle Liquid to create this water drop wave effect… then,…
…I use the Displacement Map effect to complete the warp like movement…
A slightly less simple way but looks better in my opinion is that I used an actual water drop video clip, then…
…I used the Displacement Map effect to complete the warp like movement…
In both instances, (again I’m working from memory and could be off) Layer one is the displacement map on a solid (i.e., background color). Layer two is the video (created with an NLE or video clip. There are few tricks you need to do to get this right and I can’t remember exactly what they are but it has something to do with using a greyscale (or one of the RGB channels) displacement map source to get the optimal contrast. You need to experiment to see which channel will maximize the contrast (use the effect…adjust…levels effect to do this). Also, if memory is correct there is something about the edge behavior of the displacement map to make the effect complete.
Off hand, that is what I remember. I think this should head you into the right direction.
How you use this conjunction with the reveal is a whole ‘nuther story and should be comparitively easy after working with the displacement map effect… in fact, it looks like a simple opacity change of a precomp that has the displacment map effect I described above.
FWIW Joe Moya
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I have done a very similar effect some time ago…and what I remember the trick was using the source of the particle’s to originate from a light source.
It looks they used a flare and light source combination to achieve this result.
I don’t remember the details, but I do remember it took me quite a while to figure it out how to control the particle emission direction.
Joe
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You might contact adobe to get the needed information…or, wait for a post from someone who might have done what you have done.
Another suggestion… is you might try registry scrub to see if that helps… or, it could make you situation worse.
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For a lot of the shots…Nates idea will probably work…
Except where there are dramatic video movements relative to the still object…The introduction where (for example) they use a clock to spin the background around… in that case, I would mask out the clock and rotate a background layer.
In fact, the more I think about it… if you have mocha you could just mask out any focal point (…like the beer bottle, mixing flasks as examples in the video)… create two layers… one with the sinlge masked object and the other with the video background… rotate the background and ya’ got it… unfortunately, if you don’t have imagineer’s mocha then this masking idea would be difficult to do using AE only…but, it can be done if the video is filmed appropriately.
That being said, in some instance there seems to be rotations that are simply that… the frames are zoomed/enlarged and simply rotated… nothing more.
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Sounds like a video card issue…
…spec. (OS, computer and codec) information might be useful…