Joe Moya
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Thanks… but, I was hoping you would have a tutorial for 49 and 50… those Mosaic tutorials I find pretty easy to mess up and difficult to make changes to…
Joe
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Nevermind…
I found the link… i.e. LINKS – duh!
Thanks
Joe
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I couldn’t get the buttons to work…
Joe
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Here is a site that shows some really good comparisons using a few methods….
https://www.denoyer.com/pdfs/DGi06_118.pdf
What you will notice is how well Magic Bullet works to achieve a 24p look… however, if you look closely you will see that it is also VERY VERY VERY time consuming to render. The newer version is suppose to be faster, but even if they shorten the rendering time by half… you are still looking at long rendering times. With Magic Bullet you need a good video card.
Joe
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Yep… LOT easier.
Mask revealing a font on a progressive basis is MUCH easier.
Joe
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I think you are over thinking this effect…
What that appears to me is an effect created by simply applying a mask that progressively reveals portion of each letter’s (script font).
Joe
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I appears they used a mask consisting of simple film melting/burning effect as the mask (as would appear in the days when a film projector would freeze and the heat from the bulb would melt the film) … then added color/hue/tint/contrast changes … they also seemed to have reversed the order in a few transitions.
Joe
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Thank you… Thank you…
I’ve been messing around off and on with this Ayoto created mosaic effect for some time and just couldn’t get it right.
Your suggestions helped a lot…. although I still have some work to go get it just right… but you help me make some giant leaps in getting this effect to work.
When I see this mosaic text effect… I can see how having an expression that could handle font size changes could come in very handy… I really wish AE would have an expression that allowed dynamic changes of the font to accomodate the various size of mosiac/tile.
Hmmm…. Any one know if AE CS3 will have a font manipulating expression? From what I could research… the answer is no.
Joe
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This problem is almost always a rendering issue…
I always render out of an editing software instead of AE… the quality is much better and the problems like you have are almost non-existent.
Here is a method/approach that you might try…
First, I begin my final render out of Avid Liquid not AE(in AL language that would be to “fuse” not render) to…
…Vdub. That is a VERY good rendering program using the Donald Graft smart deinterlace filter (… perhaps because it has the ability to encode in both a temporal and spacial fashion).
Using Vdub with the Donald Graft smart interlace filter (i.e., filter: smart deinterlace Window) you set as follows: Mark Motion Processing as Frame-only difference and Motion map denoising (motion threshold 15) and Scene change threshold 100… Advanced Processing mark as Phase shift and Field swap after phase shift and disable motion processing. Then encode with TMPG (using 3.0xpress or CCE).
Donald Grafts Smart Deinterlace filter for Vdub:
https://www.thedeemon.com/VirtualDubFilters/detailed.html#21
After you have downloaded both Graft’s Filter and Vdub of course.
In Vdub go to – Video>Filters>Add>Load>(go to folder with Grafts Smart Deinterlace filter)Open Smart.vdf file.Finally, a general rule I use is this… NEVER check any box that has the work “interpolation” as a choice while rendering.
You might experiment with Vdub for your rendering process… I think you will be plesantly surprised as to the quality improvement in your final video results. There are a lot of encoding/rending options to choose from (not to mention a whole bunch of other rendering/filter combination options)… so, the sky is the limit… which can be a problem in and of itself.
Hope this helps.
Joe Moya
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… you might consider strobing the video to get the effect also… that may be easier but you may not get the same effect. Besides, if I was going to do a strobe effect… I would prefer to use dedicated editing software.
Joe