Jonathan Miller
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Sean,
If you absolutely cannot figure out how to get rid of this noise by tweaking Keylight, then there’s another fix for you. Create a track matte from that layer.
So, get the key the way you want it (ignoring the noise) and duplicate the layer. Next, on the lower of the two layers, remove the Keylight effect.
Then, making sure you can see the trackmatte settings in the timeline (click the Switches/Modes button at the bottom of the column in the timeline) place a check in the “T” box for the layer that still has Keylight.
Now chose the proper setting for your lower layer in the TrkMat drop-down (the first selection is the one you want, I believe.)
So now the keyed footage should cut the proper hole in the unkeyed footage giving you a great key, but no noise. You’ll probably have to remove some spill, so add the Spill Suppressor to the lower layer.
Are we close? Hope so.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Try Archive.org.
This is one of the best resources on the Net.
I did a quick search for “cowboy” limiting it to their moving images archive and came up with a ton of possible clips. I don’t have time to look further since my render just finished! (I love the built in work breaks AE provides me with every day…)
https://www.archive.org/search.php?query=cowboy%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies
Chances are there are no copyright restrictions on ANY of these clips.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Whoa, is this project a commercial spot that will be projected at your local theater as the audience is finding their seats (before the previews) or are you looking to get a film ready for theatrical release?
If it’s a :30 spot or the like for advertising, then chances are the theater (or it’s parent company) offers the services you’re looking for and you might just need to talk to them.
If this is your film and you’re looking to get it transfered to film, then by all means talk to someone who specializes in this! Transfering to film is very expensive and you need to get educated on all of the pitfalls mentioned in this thread. It looks like you’re going to be projecting a 4:3 image. That needs to be taken into account.
What kind of project is this.
Jon
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Criis,
I, personally, would prefer to have all 14 of your comps located within 1 MASTER comp.
This way, you wouldn’t need to constantly close one project to open another project. All 14 could be open at the same time!
These kind of projects can really tax our organizational skills. One of the greatest (fairly) unspoken killer-tips in AE is to keep your projects in a very consitant, organized fashion.
Once you’re done with this cool project, check out Aharon Rabinowitz’s excellent podcast tutorial for how to work better in AE:
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Right on.
I personally don’t know if any of these methods will do justice to someone’s face. Faces are hard to get right. We read so much into expressions and it’s hard to get any of that to come through without drawing by hand and having TOTAL control.
You’ll notice on my test you never see my face. I did that on purpose…even though my wife thinks I’m quite the handsome devil!
Now, as Aharon mentioned above, changing the frame rate to 12fps will help get rid of the video’s razor sharp temporal resolution. But, would that be done just with Posterize Time, or some other way?
Jon
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Right on.
I personally don’t know if any of these methods will do justice to someone’s face. Faces are hard to get right. We read so much into expressions and it’s hard to get any of that to come through without drawing by hand and having TOTAL control.
You’ll notice on my test you never see my face. I did that on purpose…even though my wife thinks I’m quite the handsome devil!
Now, as Aharon mentioned above, changing the frame rate to 12fps will help get rid of the video’s razor sharp temporal resolution. But, would that be done just with Posterize Time, or some other way?
Jon
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Hey guys.
I experimented with all of this about a month ago on some quick video I shot as a total test.
I used QuickTime to export the video to an image sequence (.psd’s) and then Batch Processed it in Photoshop.
I’m not at my office right now, so I don’t have the original video before treatment, but here’s the little “finished” product.
https://www.treelineproductions.com/preview/toonlook.mov
It’s full size (~44MB) since the effect pretty much dissappears when you make it smaller.
I used a Photoshop Action that I found on the Adobe Studio Exchange (https://share.studio.adobe.com/default.asp) site—a great resource if you’ve never heard of it before.
If you’re interested in the action, just go to the Adobe Studio site and search for “Lawtoon”
I tweaked it a bit after geeting it back into AE, but it was an interesting test.
Of course, the client loved the look, but we’re going to just do heavy color-correcting of the video instead…
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Hey guys.
I experimented with all of this about a month ago on some quick video I shot as a total test.
I used QuickTime to export the video to an image sequence (.psd’s) and then Batch Processed it in Photoshop.
I’m not at my office right now, so I don’t have the original video before treatment, but here’s the little “finished” product.
https://www.treelineproductions.com/preview/toonlook.mov
It’s full size (~44MB) since the effect pretty much dissappears when you make it smaller.
I used a Photoshop Action that I found on the Adobe Studio Exchange (https://share.studio.adobe.com/default.asp) site—a great resource if you’ve never heard of it before.
If you’re interested in the action, just go to the Adobe Studio site and search for “Lawtoon”
I tweaked it a bit after geeting it back into AE, but it was an interesting test.
Of course, the client loved the look, but we’re going to just do heavy color-correcting of the video instead…
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Try opening the project you want to add the comp TO.
Then, drag the project file containing the comp INTO the open project window.
The other project should be added to the current project as a folder containing everything in the other project.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
You’re not being dumb, you’re just not thinking it could possibly be as easy as it is.
Just press command-f.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA