Jonan Grobler
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Wow, I’m glad I did not have to work on a project with those resolutions. Your machine is a lot more powerful than mine, however.
Unfortunately, my animations are not set up in a way to allow them to loop. It’s one smooth zoom/pan type thing. Good idea, though.
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Hi Scott – short answer, yes, you’d need a reshoot.
What I was wanting to see was whether the focus/depth of field was like it was in the shot you edited. Evidently not. So that’s good.
What’s bad, though, is the way the camera is moving. For nodal tracking, you don’t want the camera moving in y-space – back and forth. You need to do a camera track, which is a whole mission in and of itself. I’d probably try tracking the table in Mocha.
Say we do get a good track (difficult!) you have the main problem: the bottle is a sphere, it’s not a flat plane. ie the one side of the bottle needs to wrap around, disappear behind. If I’m making sense.
Obviously, it’s possible. We’ve all seen what they did on the Avengers and X-Men and all those crazy movies. However, we definitely don’t have their budget! Reshooting will be easiest. Sorry.
Dave, you were right. Of course. As always 😉
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Wow. Thanks Walter, I’ll definitely use that later.
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Yeah, it is off. Thanks everyone, you’ve been very helpful.
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Thing is, the psd files are 1920×1080 themselves, so is there something about the jpeg file nested in the psd not being properly scaled down?
I mean, I know the person I work for imports images from iStockphoto into Photoshop and arranges everything in there. WHat can I do to make the image ACTUALLY be 1920×1080?
Oh, and thanks a bunch by the way. 🙂 Trying to figure this out!
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My machine is Windows 8 – 8 GBs of RAM – i5 2.53 GHz
Not that useful if I were rendering out 3D projects or working with lots of particles, but I don’t. My work consists of photo slideshows and animating Illustrator files, all of which my machine easily handles. Seeing as this project is also just photos – PSDs – nothing fancy – I thought it should be fine.
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Hi Joe – the psds average around 30-40 mb’s. Pretty crazy, I know.
However, all the psd’s are set to 1920x108o, so the res isn’t crazy or anything. Maybe embedded photos in Photoshop are not actually scaled down? And if so, how could I fix that?
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Michael – when the psd’s are imported into AE, they don’t extend very far beyond the 1920×1080 borders of the comp I’m working in. When AE exports, does it go to the original psd files and work through them? Or how does it work?
Is there a reason I should not export h.264 from after effects other than for quality reasons? ie is it slower than exporting a jpeg sequence or lossless or whatever it is you use?
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I think you’ll just have to use keyframes. To retime it later, select all the keyframes and hold ALT while you’re dragging the last keyframe in or out. Should work.
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That’s a classic sequence! Before giving any tips I would have to note the sequence is very carefully planned out – the lightbulbs flashing, the specific portions the chose to fade through etc – which is really what sells it.
To get a more retro effect:
– I’d add some wiggle on all the layers (I assume you know what wiggle is?);
– use masks that expand with a very soft feather, as the shots are fading across, as is seen in the example above;
– scaling up the shots as you’re fading them across would also help (if you aren’t zooming already in the shot, that is);
– adding a brightness & contrast and applying subtle wiggle to the amounts;
– and, if you really want to go retro, do a google search for a free grain texture and overlay that with an “add” blend mode, maybe dropping its opacity so it’s a subtle effect.
Honestly, I think just some wiggle on position of the frames would sell the effect. Try that and see how you like it. 😉
Jonan Grobler
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