Joseph W. bourke
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Here’s another take on it. I think this is most likely the way the Etrade baby was done, since you can’t replace a baby’s face with another real face, since babies can’t talk yet.
https://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/Cutting-Edge-Face-Replacement-on-Ice_7926.html
It’s a WHOLE lot more expensive, and you need to hire a company with the vast expertise in 3D and Motion Capture that are needed. Good luck with the project.
Joe Bourke
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A good place to start would be:
findsounds.com
Joe Bourke
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Sorry Rob –
That was my mistake – it’s Soundbooth CS4 – and I’m appalled if there is no way to see the duration of a selection. I’ve already done what I wanted to do in Premiere Pro (which has the feature – totally intuitive – it shows up in the Program viewer), having imported the .asnd format, which works quite well, but I’m still on the search to see whether I’ve missed something, or the designers of the Soundbooth interface have REALLY missed something. This is just such a must-have feature…well, you get it.
Joe Bourke
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Hi Mark –
It looks to me as if 3D was used for the reflective ice, at least that would be the easiest way to do it, what with the extruded text, ice blocks with icons in them, etc. that they’re using. My guess would be that it’s just a plane in a 3D program with a real photograph of an ice surface mapped to it, then set to a reflectivity that would match ice, or better yet, look good. It appears that the falloff of the reflections is not realistic, but it does look really nice.
My guess is that you could do it in AE (just the ice, of course), but the amount of time would be astronomical compared to doing it in, say, 3D Studio Max. Setting up the ice surface would take no time in Max, and the extruded text is simple. The “cubes” appear to be pretty much identical, so you’d only have to model one, then replace the interal icons as needed. In AE, I’d create the ice surface with a photo of an ice surface, then use Andrew Kramer’s killer preset, Easy Reflect:
https://www.videocopilot.net/presets/quick_3d_reflections/
Thanks to VideoCopilot, the reflection process has become a whole lot easier and controllable without having to write your own expressions.
Joe Bourke
Creative Director / Multimedia Specialist
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It’s interesting to hear the negative takes on AME. I’ve been outputting an uncompressed master file from Premiere (Animation, Millions of colors), then using AME to output the various flavors of files I need for clients – everything from 640 x 360 H.264 files to 320 x 180 files for iTouch phones, and haven’t run into anything I would consider unacceptably slow. I am running on a Quad Core Intel machine with 8GB of RAM, running Vista 64 bit, and I’m always pleasantly surprised that AE, Premiere, and AME speed right along with their renders.
For example, a master file out of Premiere CS4 might take 5 minutes or so for a 3 minute piece at 1920 x 1080, then the 640 x 360 H.264 encoding in AME might take 3 minutes. Not unacceptible to me by any means. What sort of speeds are people getting with Squeeze or other encoding engines?
Joe Bourke
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Hi –
I’m experiencing exactly the same problem with a MS Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 and AE CS4 with the latest updates, running on Vista 64 bit. I can zoom out (waaaaay out), but the zoom in with the mouse wheel does not work at all, nor does scrolling the thumb with the mouse wheel when I’m in the timeline or project view. These features work with the same AE CS4 version running on Windows XP Pro 32 bit (but a different mouse – MS Optical Mouse 3000). I’ve tried changing the sensitity settings, and a number of settings, with no solution. It’s very frustrating, because this was a feature I used all the time. Thanks.
Joe Bourke
Creative Director / Multimedia Specialist
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Scott –
I think that what you’re getting at is the CUDA technology developed by Nvidia, or GPU computing. It allows the graphics card to become part of the CPU process, essentially giving 100s of core processors to the mix. I purchased my medium-high-end card just because it is the first generation of CUDA-enabled cards, and the promise it shows is astonishing!:
https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_what_is_new.html
Looking at the Tesla personal supercomputer technology gets even more exciting – the pre-configured boxes are expensive, but you can buy a Tesla and build your own without too much rocket science involved. There are actually directions on the Nvidia site on how to do it.
Right now it’s targeted at scientific research, but you can bet money on the fact that with Adobe and Nvidia’s tight connection, it will hit the desktop in the near future, and that will most likely mean realtime for anything you’re working on. Scott, you’re right…it’s something to get excited about!
Joe Bourke
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I vaguely remember reading that this can be a problem with either Wacom tablet or Nvidia video card drivers. Is it possible that when you did the restore you didn’t get the most current set of the above drivers? Sorry to be vague, but I’ll be if you do a search on AE and Wacom or Nvidia, you’ll find more specifics. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Creative Director / Multimedia Specialist
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I have often seen this problem with graphics that were submitted in .eps format and other Illustrator formats. It appears that when you save the file, the bounding box gets saved too close to the actual image and cuts a portion of the graphic off.
You might try (if you have Illustrator) putting crop marks on the file that are maybe a half inch or so wider than the graphic all around. Also try saving the file to a different format to see whether that solves the problem. I have mostly seen it happen when I opened an Illustrator file (.eps usually) in AE, or brought it into an AVID system.
Joe Bourke
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Here’s probably more information than you want to know about it:
I recently encoded a couple of training videos originating in 1920 x 1080 for use on the iTouch. I ended up using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 and got very good results. Bear in mind, however, that even after you’ve encoded your clip for the iPhone, you have to do an import to the device via iTunes. At least that’s what we ran into with our natively encoded clips. It would seem to import it, then say that it was in a native codec and couldn’t take it (go figure). We got the best results finally with a 640 x 480 H.264 file (the video was 3 minutes long). The iTouch imported it seamlessly.
Joe Bourke
Creative Director / Multimedia Specialist
B&S Exhibits and Multimedia
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