Joseph W. bourke
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Ahhh…rectangular solids! I’ll have to think about this one. Thanks for clarifying it.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Kevin –
Do you mean you want video mapped on one side of each rectangle and a gradient on the “back” side? If so, I would suggest either using two rectangles, then spacing them 1 or 2 pixels appart, and parenting the positions, so that they animated together (if you’re animating them). Using the shape tool will get you the rounded rectangles:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS21FE7A70-CDA2-432f-A5E0-0FF2478CE47Aa.html
Another possibility would be to use the Card Dance plugin, which allows you to specify what is mapped on the front and back of each rectangle, although I don’t think you can have rounded rectangles.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Peter –
Some more confusion on this – I did a Google search on Neutral vs Cine style and found this:
https://www.learningdslrvideo.com/cinestyle-vs-neutral/
It looks to me as if there’s noise introduced in the non-neutral style setting. You be the judge. Probably the best thing to do would be to test it both ways, and see what looks best with our own cameras.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Peter –
Sorry I didn’t catch your response sooner. I generally use the neutral style not for any real specific reason other than that I’ve always followed the rule, both in audio, and video (not the DSLR world), to leave all my source material “dry”, so to speak, with no effects on it.
In that way, I can almost always achieve in the post process what I’ve left out in the shoot, but I can’t remove a color effect, or a settings tweak, once it has been recorded that way. I guess it’s more of a “how I’ve always done it” thing, not a right or wrong thing.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I don’t know anything about underwater housings, but there several on *bay for pretty cheap to quite expensive:
I’m not sure if the cheapies (under 100 bucks) are the same as the bag you’re talking about, but there are a few.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Chris –
While I don’t have it open at the moment, there should be a setting/patch called De-esser, which is made to do just what you need to do – reduce the sibilance of the VO.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I believe that there is a free script which will allow you to save Comps out as separate projects. Yup…I found it:
https://aescripts.com/save-comp-as-project/
This is one way to go. Another way to go would be to render your various elements as you go along, and setup the render so as to import the rendered element into AE when the render is done. It will require some organization on your part to keep track of what goes where, but that should speed up you project considerably.
The script above could be a last resort, if you’re really getting slowed down. Once you output each Comp as it’s own project, you could then render off those elements by project, and import them into a final “master” project, where you do your transitions. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Or in Apple’s case:
Whoever compiled it, defiled it.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Usually when I’m doing an effect which I want to look “hot”, as if it’s lit, or burning, I output the effect on a black solid background, and then composite it in AE using Additive mode. This mode adds the value of the bright pixels to those in back, making the back clip blow out toward white.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Mark –
You may want to think about changing your workflow a bit and shooting your T2i footage Neutral, then doing the FX pass in 16 bit in After Effects. I think you can pretty well approximate the in-camera presets in AE, and get them looking squeeky clean, then output to 8bit if you have to. I’m hoping someone will weigh in here who knows a bit more about the DSLR workflow. I have a T2i, and always shoot in Neutral, then so any FX work in post with AE.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com