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Under layers add an adjustment layer and add the effect, now you use the pen tool on the adjustment layer.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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The animation for this is relatively straight forward, it’s making a realistic book that is the hard part of creating this project.
Create solids for the pages and covers, offseting them in Z-space, to make a 3d feel. Adjust the anchor point of your cover(your cover might be 20 to 30 solids, or a 3d rectangle) to the spine of the book and then open it up by animating the y rotation of your cover.
AE Tuts has a very long tutorial on doing this for a popup book:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/unfold-a-magical-pop-up-book-simulation-day-1/
Also found a free download of a very very complex animated project of a 3D book cover open. If you are new to AE, adjusting this to fit your needs might be pretty difficult, but here it is:
https://www.filesonic.com/file/64562147
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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It seems you have the steps planned out correctly. The real trick to selling this is compositing the car correctly, getting the reflections, lighting…everything that sells it as real.
In regards to tracking and placing it with Mocha, check out this tutorial and preset developed by Andrew Kramer, might be of use to you on this project.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/magic_tracking/
If it is, I have one more question. How would I go about having the car behind certain things, like a person passing in the foreground or a tree? I’m going to assume mask out the person or anything in the foreground? But that’s as far as my skills allow because I’m unsure as to how to proceed after that.
You are basically going to have a multiple layers to do this. First you take the footage you shot of the street, person walking… and drop in into a comp.
Let’s say you get your car matched correctly into the video. That would be layed over the video you shot. Now you need to add another copy(or multiple copies) for every foreground object that passes in front of the car. There might be a few ways of accomplishing this, but what it comes down to is that you need to rotoscope those objects. You can use the mask tool(pretty good for trees), or try the roto brush(what I would use if I was working with people).
If you haven’t used the roto brush, check out this page, it has links to a lot resources on how to use it.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3bf812c123007fb8513559df126b537c840-8000.html
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Couple of things. First when I tried to render out an HD file to a AVI with RGB + Alpha, it was unavailable in both HD or SD sizes. If I chose avi with the codec set to none, I was able to render to a RGB+Alpha. Of course umcompressed AVI’s are very very large files, but you can always take that file into Media Encoder.
I posted last week on video banding:
Bit depth can a difference on banding
If the video is for HD delivery, Kevin Camp’s offered a recipe that has worked well for me in the past.
as for banding, you can usually add an adjustment layer with the noise effect on it. it shouldn’t take much noise (less that 5%) to hide the banding.
Roland Kahlenberg offers some notes if for web delivery.
Blurring one or more of the color channels does a better job for reducing or eliminating banding problems. Adding noise more to a comp which may be destined for Web delivery will only result in a poorer quality web version as compressors usually have a harder time compressing noise.
Use Effect>Channel Blur and increase one of the values to solve your problem. You can tell which channel needs more attention by looking at the individual color channels in the Comp Panel prior to applying Channel Blur.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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I messed around a little with CC Wide Time and Time Displacement powered by a fractal to get that square look. So I uploaded the project and you can just drop the footage into the comp and see if it helps or gives you some new ideas on how to proceed.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Since I don’t know even After Effects CS5, may someone inform whether this software itself is able to create infographs easily?
Or could be valuable to acquire any of these plugin as well? Does anyone know any of them?
Yes can easily create infographs with no extra tools-but to create the ones in that video you would need an intermediate to advanced knowledge of the software.These aren’t plugins, they are selling you After Effects projects that they created. They will come with some instructions telling you where to insert your data and the projects will update accordingly(using expressions).
The ‘pros’ of such templates are if you don’t need to change many things, they are pretty easily to use. You enter your info, you enter the headers/section names and it will do the rest.
The drawbacks occur when you need to change things to suit your presentation or clients. From reading the website these videos:
Run Time
Main preview: 1:26 Each comp: :10 sec.So if you need to change the timing or length of comp, color really anything you often will need an intermediate level abilities in after effects – sometimes more if you need to tweak expressions(but you really shouldn’t have to do that).
Finally, you said you intend to acquire CS5 to do this. Pardon me if I’m wrong, but does that mean you don’t have After Effects experience? If that’s the case, you might be better off finding someone who knows the program(and owns it), buying them the infographs templates and just having them do it.
AE can be a large finacial investment and requires a massive investment of time.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Few things you can try. Make a lossless animation(I prefer QT Animation) and then take that into media encoder and render to your final resolution. Encoder does multi-pass encoding so you should get a better final file.
If the first approach also gives you problems another way would be to make a tiff, pict or jpeg sequence. If it comes out okay, great, but if not – you can find the offending frames, locate the spot in the timeline and replace them using “cntl+alt + s”.
Perhaps others here might have some insight on why your render is doing that, but I haven’t seen that particular issue before.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
I don’t write scripts, but the first place I would check is the expressions forum here and wait for Dan Ebberts to reply.
He also has some scripting stuff on his webpage:
https://www.motionscript.com/Finally there is a 5 part tutorial on AE tuts you might want to check out:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/introduction-to-writing-scripts-for-ae-expressions-day-1/
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
You don’t say what codecs you can use, but if I’m uploading something to the web, and I want good quality and size I’ll render to an H.264.
Usually looks great and has small file sizes. Render a lossless codec like animation and then open media encoder and find a H.264 preset.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Gotcha, wasn’t sure if you were inquiring about how the text moved with the camera(matchmoving) or the text builds themselves.
Those text builds can be accomplished in multipe ways, probably the easiest and most straight forward are the animation presets in AE. You type in your text, set it the way you want it to look after it builds on and then apply a preset.
Some links to Adobe on presets:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS470222D1-4767-478c-8F52-649C4E3FE941a.htmlAnimation text presets(the animate in section will take care of nearly everything you see in your example video)
Basic Text tutorial with animation presets from VideoCopilot.net:
https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/tutorials/08.Titles/Creative Cow tutorial on preset basics:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/presets/video-tutorialJohnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.