[John Cuevas]

Strange, I’m using Chrome and the tutorial started playing right away for me, both on my pc and my android. You might try the Letters to the COW team, I think Abraham takes care of the back end tech stuff for the site.

Dave might have some suggestions too, I believe he uses Apple stuff(can’t remember for sure though)

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Could you please provide a link to the tutorial.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

What do you mean “playback” in real time. After effects will do a RAM preview, where it temporarily renders a number of frames to RAM(total depends on amount of RAM on your computer). But that’s the only real-time playback and you still need to wait for each frame to render and that depends on your CPU.

If you just mean hitting the play button(spacebar) and playing…AE has NEVER done that it RT.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

Not exactly the same, but perhaps some of the techniques used in this tutorial might help. John Fischer demonstrates Building a 3D Grid/Video Screen in After Effects

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

I did a search in the expressions forum and found this countdown timer. Just create a comp 15 minute long. Press “cntl+alt+shift+T” to create a text layer. Copy the entire expression written below. Twirl open the text and “alt + click” the source text stop watch to enable expressions, then paste expression below into the box. Lastly, make sure the text is right justified.

rate = -1;
clockStart = 900;

function padZero(n){
if (n < 10) return "0" + n else return "" + n } clockTime = Math.max(clockStart + rate*(time - inPoint),0); t = Math.floor(clockTime); min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60); sec = Math.floor(t%60); min + ":" + padZero(sec)

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

"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.

[John Cuevas]

See my response here: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/1063852

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

I’d use the rotobrush. Here’s an older tutorial showing the basics, there are newer ones out there that get into the more advance newer features.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

I used the demo of Screen Equalizer and got a pretty decent result without too much work. Needed to create 2 keys, but perhaps if I’d taken a bit more time I could have pulled it off with one.

Here’s my quick little test, you’ll need to load the trial version to play around with it.

9024_keyingprojectfolder.zip

Just realized that the reason I needed 2 keys was because the quick & dirty background plate I created was really uneven. You will probably get really good results if you find a frame(s) of video without a subject and will only need 1 key.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

You might want to check out the Screen Equalizer plugin. I’ve only played around with the trial version, but it worked pretty well.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

[John Cuevas]

If you do searches for “2.5D After Effects Tutorial” or “the kid stays in the picture effect” you will find a lot of good tutorials. Here’s a couple to help get you started:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/virtual_3d_photos/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVrYyX3bHI8

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.

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