Joey Foreman
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That works. Thanks. But you know, it would make more sense if frame advance were accomplished with the arrow keys alone, and moving a layer’s position were accomplished with the modifier key. I’m always accidentally nudging a layer by bumping an arrow key. Too bad we can’t remap.
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How about temporarily locking all the others layers so that the camera is the only thing you can select.
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Brilliant. Thanks.
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It’ll never work. Reshoot.
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I think you’ll find that if you try and make a new comp with the panasonic quicktime files by dragging the footage to the make comp icon, the resultant comp will have the wrong aspect ratio and be squished. Unless adobe had fixed this issue in the latest AE update. If they haven’t here’s what to do:
If interpret footage says the footage is 960×720 with a par of 1.33, then setting the comp to either the same settings as the footage with par correction enabled in the preview window, or setting the comp to 1280×720 with square px should correct the ‘squeezing’ you are experiencing.
i prefer the later option of dropping it in a 1280×720 square pixel comp… if you need to, you can always create a preset for the size, par and framerate that you are working in, to make it easier to set your comps up.
That’s a quote from an older post. I too prefer he 2nd option. Works great.
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I’ll be surprised if you don’t give up on this project. Rotoscoping people – especially people that are moving around a lot – is INCREDIBLY difficult. Rotoscoping is a skill that takes years of experience to perfect. You need to know how how to use multiple masks per character, you have to master the use of bezier handles and b-splines, and you had better be willing to put in at the very least a couple of hours of work per second of footage.
Sure you could have a go at it after learning the basics – as long as you don’t mind the fact that it’s going to look amazingly bad. The edges will pop and vibrate. The characters will keep gaining and losing body mass – especially in areas of darkness and poor contrast around the edges. Or they’ll be surrounded be blurry, undulating edge that makes them look like they’re enclosed in some sort of ectoplasm and not at all in the same environment as the background.
But if you don’t mind a Really Cheesy result then go for it.
Not to be discouraging or anything. Yes, After Effects is great for rotoscoping – in the same way that a nuclear submarine is great for cruising around underwater.