Joey Foreman
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Just keep in mind that all the projects you did in 6.5 will have to be updated for CS3. There are some plugins that don’t update, such as Keylight. If you used keylight in a 6.5 project, it will not work when you open the project in CS3.
If you have some projects created in 6.5 that you might want to work with some more, you should at least keep 6.5 on your system until you’ve determined what will and won’t update. Why not keep it anyway?- Mine is only 360 MB.
I’ve never uninstalled AE, actually. On my old G4 I’ve still got 4.1, 5.5, 6 and 6.5. They’re like vintage collectibles or something – can’t let em go.
The latest update of quicktime is 7.4.5 and it is free of the problem that limited render lengths.Joey Foreman
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Darby’s right, the Graph Editor is a hundred times easier than messing around with exponential scale.
Just set a starting and ending rotation keyframe.
Open the graph editor, set an ease out on the starting keyframe and then pull the right ease handle out a good bit and give it a slight lift. You can adjust the left handle of the second keyframe as well if you want.
You’ll probably want to set a third keyframe as well to sustain the rotation speed.
God Luck.Joey Foreman
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Effect > Render > Stroke.
Joey Foreman
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It will naturally blur more as it speeds up. Just slowly ramp up its rotation rate. You can do this with an expression (sorry, can’t help you there) or you can use exponential scale.
Set an initial rotation angle keyframe – but don’t start with zero, start with 1,change its type to ease out, then move ahead in the timeline and set a second keyframe with a higher number like 20. Then select your first – then second keyframe and apply Keyframe Assistant>Exponential Scale. RAM preview then adjust to taste. You’ll have to undo or delete the gazillion keyframes that E.S. creates if you want to change the numbers, then apply it again.Joey Foreman
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Since you can’t keyframe the shutter angle, I can think of two possible workarounds. I tested both and neither gave really spectacular results on a masked solid, but depending on what you’re applying the blur to the results might be improvable with additional futzing.
Workaround 1: Render out the solo-ed object(+Alpha) with a small amount of motion blur.
Crank up the shutter angle in comp settings and bring in your rendered item. Place your now heavily blurred layer over the rendered layer and animate its opacity (0-100) over the length of the animation.Workaround 2: Precompose the layer to be blurred and instead of using motion blur in the timeline, apply Timewarp. Leave the speed at 100%, turn on Timewarp’s motion blur and keyframe its shutter angle over the length of the animation. Theoretically this should look nice, but it looked bad on a masked solid for some reason.
Joey Foreman
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That’s pretty much how it goes. You’ll get used to it.
Joey Foreman
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More info – the mask on the duplicated layer should be set to add, and the track matte switch on the layer below it – your original layer- should be Alpha Inverted.
You could also, rather than duplicate the original masked layer, just create a new solid and cut and paste the mask to it – then set it as the track matte and parent it to the null.
Joey Foreman
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Duplicate the layer and delete the mask on the original. Then parent the duplicate layer to the null and set it as an alpha track matte.
Joey Foreman
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Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
Which version of AE are you on? If it’s CS3 try this:
Go to File>Project Settings and check the box marked Match Legacy After Effects Quicktime Gamma Adjustments.
Try your render again.
Joey Foreman
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Oops, misread the question. I thought he had AE lights in the comp.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA