Joseph W. bourke
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I think that if you select all of the tracking point, then move the muzzle flash, you’ll get the result you want.
Joe Bourke
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Thanks for the clarification – what I see in Masakatu’s work is naturalistic painting in Photoshop, most likely painted frame by frame, rotoscoping of video images, probably in AE, which are then in some places used as masks for other patterns, and some line drawing, probably using the Paint module in After Effects. It’s the artistic combination of these relatively simple processes that makes the work sing.
I have years of experience using Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, but none with Motion, so I can’t give you an intelligent comparison between AE and Motion, but my gut tells me that the ability to work and share within the Adobe packages will make your projects easier to manage. I’ve used my Wacom tablet in Photoshop, and, once you get the mechanics of your brushes set up, you’ll find it to be somewhat painterly. There’s quite a bit of work out there done in Photoshop which you wouldn’t be able to tell from traditional media. That said, take a look at Artrage and Painter (now owned by Corel). Artrage is inexpensive, and has some very powerful features, but integration with After Effects would have to be done frame by frame, as far as I know.
One very important thing to check out before making your decision is the various problems people might be having with the Wacom drivers and the software you’re deciding upon. Check out the Motion, After Effects, and Photoshop support forums, and see whether people are having recurring problems. You want to spend your time painting, not trouble-shooting.
Joe Bourke
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By Wacom painting, do you mean drawing paint strokes and vector strokes, which will be animated, with your pen, or do you mean painting which mimics traditional media, which you might do in Photoshop, Painter, or Artrage?
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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From the look of the character’s clothing, and the stiffness of it, it most certainly was done in a 3D package. It would be a relatively easy (if you know a 3D package well) task to animate the character walking, then, by working with a copy or clone of that 3D character, attach a particle system that would emit from every vertex, or x number of vertices, etc. This would give you the animated shapes which appear to revolve around and emit from, the character. Not a simple job if you don’t know a 3D package, and not something you’d want to attack without, at the very least, the included version of C4D in After Effects CC.
Joe Bourke
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Good information, David. I especially like the “Include Project Link” switch in Section 5. In addition to the usefulness you spoke of, there is the ability in Adobe Bridge to actually find the path to your project in the Metadata/Advanced tab.
If you look at the second screen grab toward the bottom on my blog post, you’ll see just where you can find the project path – a great timesaver when you can’t remember exactly which version of the project your output was rendered from:
https://bourkemedia.com/adobe-bridge-metadata-saves-the-day/
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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My guess would be that you have to have the drivers installed first. That would no doubt give you access to the key assignments, probably in the Windows Control Panel. The picture you show is a Razer Naga, so there should be driver downloads on their website:
https://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-naga
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Knoll Unmult should do the trick for you:
https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2010/08/17/knoll-unmult-free/
Joe Bourke
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I hesitate to use a sports metaphor here, but in line with Mark’s first paragraph, when you’ve got editors doing housekeeping, in baseball terms, you have your pitchers selling peanuts in the stands. Not a great idea, and not cost-effective – however – in terms of things such as cleaning the monitors, and keeping the editing work area policed for empty bottles, food wrappers, etc., they should indeed be expected to keep their specific work area clean.
Depending on how dusty and dirty the air is in your area, it might be a good idea to do some daily light dusting (I have always kept a small 1.5 inch paintbrush hanging near audio boards, keyboards, and control surfaces for regular daily intricate dusting that you don’t want a vacuum cleaner near) in the technical work area. If this is done daily, by you or by each shift of editors, the work will be very light, and you won’t run the risk of having your monitors cleaned with Bon-Ami.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Here are the system requirements straight from the horse’s mouth:
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-effects.html
Joe Bourke
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Tom –
I have run into a similar problem due to the change from the Magic Bullet Suite to Color Suite. What happened, in my case, is that at least one of the elements in the suite moved to a new location in the install, resulting in a missing filter error similar to yours. Although the plugin was there, the new Color Suite architecture was looking for it in a new place, so I’ve had to re-apply the new filter to any older projects where I had instances of the old filter. Your best bet is to contact Red Giant Support, and they’ll address the issue – they’re fast to respond, and they know their stuff. In the meantime, you can take a look in your plugins folders to see if you can find the culprit. You might have success by just moving it to the new location. Just make sure you remember where it was, or duplicate it in the new location.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com