Jon Merrifield
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Have you tried nesting your sequence into new sequences that are timed for your specific outputs?
ie: Seq10 (or whatever) (your master sequence nest is your source) is timed to start and end where you need and the timecodes of this sequence can be customized your you can use the source data.Jon Merrifield
VFX Artist / Supervisor
PELi Studios, Austin TX -
Both of your videos show uses of a few techniques. Animating shapes and particles to name the prominent ones. To get good at anything, one must practice, practice, practice, and then do some more work on the technique you would like to master. The answers lie on this road.
I would suggest making some shapes that emulate what you like in these videos and then try and animate them in a similar fashion. Once you get some skills down, you can research tutorials, there are hundreds of free ones, in these you may find techniques you can apply to what you are trying to accomplish. Then you may wish to add to it by adding particles, again, the only way to get a handle on particle playground, or whatever, is to become intimate with it, trial and error are the keys to success.
just saying’…
Jon Merrifield
VFX Artist / Supervisor
PELi Studios, Austin TX -
I would suggest making your logo a 3D object and then rotating the Y axis.
You can also get interesting results by offsetting the anchor point and playing with scale in addition.Jon Merrifield
VFX Artist / Supervisor
PELi Studios, Austin TX -
There are probably ten ways to do this. I am just tossing one out due to me current limited time.
You could copy and paste your null with the tracking data in the new smaller comp. Then parent that null to a new null created in that comp. Use the new null to shrink the scale of the original null so it now matches the new size of your smaller comp. May be helpful if your new comp size has the same aspect of the original.Jon Merrifield
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Dave is right, as always, but…
Depending on the detail and result needed. You could resize your 1080 stuff to whatever the size of your 3K files will be for finish, and then track those and the data can be applied to your null or however you apply it to the HD stuff when going to the 3K. If your 3K files are going to be transcoded to a 1080 size prior to ingest and for the final, then you will be fine, but Dave is still right. -
I had this issue before as well. In system preferences under Keyboard, there is a check box “Use all F1, F2, etc keys as standard keys”. you may want to make sure this is checked.
cheers
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Well you may never get around the fact the you have to increase the scale once a shot has be stabilized as such. However, using the Motion Tile effect, may enable you to reduce the amount of scale increase that you have to do.
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Walter, Thank you very much. Now I feel foolish for not discovering this in the guide myself.
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Dave,
When you have time, could you please expound on the issues with audio and ram preview. I followed your comment and realized that each ram preview may move the audio out of sync or in sync. Discovered this the hard way. What I would like to wrap my brain around is why, so I may more quickly trouble shoot and solve the issue rather than render multiple ram previews. It seems to be in sync if I render FULL and not any other resolutions as I would like to for the testing of my timings etc.
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Ariel,
I use AE and FCP every day. I find the best thing to do is organize your work flow with folders to hold your elements your moving back and forth.. I also make sure my projects all have the same type of settings and codecs to limit the re-rendering. If you take your time and pay close attention and try a few things you will develop your own system that works well. Every project I have has folders AE, FCP, MOTION, Approval Movies, Elements, Masters. etc. I know this sounds basic, but it makes an incredible difference to my work flow using all these different tool sets. Like everything in life, its trial and error, you will get there, once you get a system going you can use scripts or automater to help with the speed.