Joey Foreman
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Thanks, Darby, I’ll give that a try.
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Sorry, but your links don’t seem to work.
Joey Foreman
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Not sure I understand the question. Once you’ve keyed the sd footage, you’re free of the constraints of aspect ratio. Your composition resolution should be based on the widescreen footage. By the way, when you say widescreen, do you mean HD 16:9, or SD widescreen?
In either case, there should be no “black bars” to speak of.But if by “chromakey footage” you mean that the shot has already been keyed and composited over a background plate, then it seems that your main comp should be 4:3 SD letterboxed to accommodate the widescreen material, be it HD scaled down or SD.
In this scenario, you create a 4:3, 720×480 comp which fits the non widescreen shot. Drop in the widescreen footage and scale it so that it’s letterboxed inside the comp. This letterboxing will be your guide to create a masked solid above for the non widescreen material, so that it has the same letterboxing. You can change its position vertically for the best fit.
Now you can intercut it with the widescreen shots, but your finished piece will be letterboxed throughout.
By the way, if you’re not needing any additional compositing or fx work, all of this can be done, I’m sure, in Vegas.
Joey Foreman
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Dave’s right, Bulge should work fine. I did it the hard way using an oval radial gradient Displacement Map. I always do it the hard way. I work for an hourly rate, you see.
Dang, that video came out huge.
Joey Foreman
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Sure, just render it to ProRes HQ.
[Mel Kahn] “…so that one can move it over to Final Cut Pro (say version’s 3 and up) “
Final Cut is currently on version 7, which is part of Studio 3. ProRes can only be used with versions 6 & 7, as far as I know.
Joey Foreman
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I would suggest applying the Transform effect to the turntable layer and attempting to Skew it into a square shape.
Then position and scale the record layer to fit.
Precomp the two, centering the Anchor Point if necessary, making the precomp 3d, then rotating and repositioning it to taste.You can then animate the rotation of the record in the precomp.
Not sure how accurate the results will be without seeing the actual turntable image.
Joey Foreman
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Luke, since you have a licensed copy, why not just contact Adobe Support about your issue? If you don’t have CC PW, then you’re not getting your money’s worth. Just straighten out the issue, get your plug-ins working properly, then complete the tutorial and your film.
Joey Foreman
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It’s really nice, but I was wondering why it’s letterboxed.
Joey Foreman
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But isn’t CC Particle World bundled with CS5? Why would you have to download a trial?
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I’m with Dave. Do all of your keying and compositing in AE. You’ll get much better results.
AE isn’t just a motion graphics app, it’s a top notch compositor.
And if you think you’ll get real-time playback of keyed, composited clips in FCP without rendering, you’ve got another think coming;)Joey Foreman
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