Joseph W. bourke
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I think this information may prove helpful:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1036139
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Karen –
I would try starting from scratch, and using a less aggressive setting when removing the noise print. You may have success somewhere in the middle, but have to leave a bit of the fan noise in there. If the fan noise is in the same part of the audio spectrum as the voice, you’ll never be able to completely remove it without trashing the voice to some degree. Take a look here:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/audition/cs/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010548241038980c2c5-7f30.html#WS58a04a822e3e5010548241038980c2c5-7f2fJoe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Max –
The one way I can think of achieving it is to use a circle and a square imported from Illustrator. As of CS6, you have the ability to tweak the actual nodes of the Illustrator file. In order for the Circle to “liquefy”, it will have to have way more than the four nodes which usually comprise a circle. I would start with the circle and square in the same screen position, then animate just the circle’s nodes as it moves down the screen and then heads back up towards becoming the square. The trick is going to be getting the next to last frame of the circle as close as possible to the square shape, then for the last frame, make the circle’s opacity zero and pop on the square shape. It’s pretty involved as well. You might do better using morphing software, then importing the clip into AE.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Shane –
I’m not on the Macintosh platform, but I did find a discussion of your question on the Adobe Community discussions:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/1452204
It appears that there may be hope for reading the metadata, depending on your OS version. Here’s something else which was mentioned in the discussion:
https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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The most important thing to make your composite shot look real is to match the lighting in the composited shot to the lighting in the back plate. Think about what’s wrong with the bad example shot you posted: you’ve got two rows of white hot flame, and absolutely nothing is showing that on the two characters. It looks as if they were lit with standard three point lighting from soft boxes. They should have blown out highlights up to their waists, and then hard shadows bottom lit from the waist up. You can see the shadow on the guy on the left’s face, and it’s as wrong as it could possibly be. So…think out your background shot, then match to that lighting as closely as you can. Then all you’ll have to do in post is a few tweaks.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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As Michael said, there are several steps to getting this done with just what’s available in After Effects. However, take a look at the Magic Bullet Suite, now called Color Suite – it includes Magic Bullet Looks, which has all of the film look presets you could ever want, plus color correction, and a utility called Misfire, which contains gate weave, film noise and dirt, splotches, and all sorts of artifacts you’d get from old or damaged film stock:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
It’s not cheap, but it would save a world of time.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Here’s one quick way to do it – a free plugin which will give you a Ken Burns type show very quickly:
https://motionboutique.com/pan-zoom-49/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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It all depends upon having a package or utility which will read Adobe’s XMP metadata. There are many third party utilities which will allow you to view and extract metadata from files, but I find that Bridge gives me the most power. Just so you know, if you sign up for the Creative Cloud on a computer (without installing any of the Adobe CC packages), you can install a freestanding version of Adobe Bridge. This could prove helpful in your workflow. Here’s some more info on metadata reading within a web browser:
https://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/01/read-exif-iptc-xmp-more-from-your-web.html
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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The only other thing I can think of is updating the driver for your video card. That’s about the only other place where an image could sit in a buffer and maybe not get erased.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Neil –
Here’s a link to a boilerplate release for the parent(s) of talent:
https://www.videouniversity.com/rel/relmin.rtf
General procedure when you’re going on a shoot is to have a small stack of releases (standard and parental – actually, my releases have a line item for the parental signature – if it applies).
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com