Joe Moya
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Oh yea… btw,
I combined your tutorial about Mocha and Andrew Kramer’s tutorial about Demon Face Warp and his tracking/stabilization method of parenting position, rotation and location… AND…
…Viola’… instant video stabilization software… but, I still have problems trying to create tracking points for video that has objects that disappear completely from the screen (like in panning a shot).
… Stabilizing/tracking a Panning shot tutorial would be great.
Joe Moya
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Aharon,…
…your tutorial is the best and most detailed tutorial that is made about MOCHA… unfortunately, it is the only good tutorial about the product to date. It is unfortunate that the makers of the software haven’t made better tutorials than what they have done to date.
Joe
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If I read your post correctly,… what you need is the tracking information so that you can parent that information to an expression related to another layer.
And… you say AE’s motion tracking isn’t good enough…
And, you need a 3rd party software that can provide you with complete tracking information… if this is the case, the answer is – yes. And, can be done very easily and very quickly. That’s the good news.
Now, the bad news… the cost. The kind of software you probably need is Mocha by Imagineers.
https://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/
If you can afford this software, I feel certain it will do what you need. I have found it to be VERY good tracking software… but, it does have a learning curve that is not as easy as it is presented by the tutorials.
Joe Moya
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The only thing I might add to lifetype’s post is the “cartoon” effect is really only a desaturated captured picture from the video that can be easily created in Photoshop with an adjustment layer (or, you could do it in an editing program.
In fact, this effect would be much simplier to do in a good editing program rather than AE.
Joe
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Which effect?
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The block Blur only seems to work on the particle being emitted…
I only want a small outside glow (I want the rain drop itself (i.e., the particular being emitted) to be relatively clear of any changes)… I am having more success by adding Shine to the comp that contains the rain drop picture/particular.
The particular effect I am looking for is the effect I referenced at the site mentioned in my first post (note: The falling rain effect I want is as the ground view first comes into view as the view changes from above the clouds and faces the ground)… although, I will be using it in a different fashion.
This streak-like and fast-rain falling effect created using Particular is a layer that has the effects simular to what is shown at the site above.
Base on the work so far, this seaminly simple rain effect will take many layers to make it work effectively.
Joe
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The shutter angle and phase was the problem….
The Particle’s Motion Blur’s Shutter Angle and Phase was too low AND I needed to choose the subframe sample as type… plus, increase the subframe sample levels to make the particles to blend together. The velocity of the particle was good but without the subframe sample choosen and shutter angle cranked up the streak effect wouldn’t happen.
Now, I need to see if I can add a very slight glow to this streaking particle effect… hmm…something tells me that this will not be as easy as I expect.
Thanks a bunch,… I learned something new everytime I try something difficult and different.
Joe
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Thanks for the suggestion…
However,… I found out something new…
You can NOT put an adjustment layer with cc force blur above a Trapcode Particular effect that has a custom particle…
…this will crash AE (the error message says it is a known issue)…
hmmm…. didn’t realize this until now… so, that rules out using cc force blur with the same comp as the Trapcode effect is being used.
So… I tried to add the force blur to the comp that has the picture of the particle… that will not work because the size of the precomp with the custom particle only fits the picture…. basically, there is nothing to streak except the picture itself… that does not create a streak behind the emitting object (i.e., particle picture).
Joe
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Ditto… the MOCHA… nothing else even comes close to what MOCHA can do when it comes to tracking and rotoscoping.
Joe
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Take a look at this… he does a very good job of making realistic rain drops.
https://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/casestudies/8355.html
My only complaint is that I wished he would explain more detail about the methods he used.
Joe