Josh Weiss
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If the camera is going to move and you are going to need to track it, then yes, you should have a real object in the scene. It doesn’t really need to be a frame or white board, though that could work. 4 tracking markers should work just fine as well, but either should be ok.
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This plugin works, but its basically just duplicating layers behind the scenes so you don’t have to do it by hand.
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Shatter is the only other method I know and that one works well.
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Put the wiggle expression on the rotation for the solid. No posterize at this point. Then go to layer, pre-compose. Make sure to select to move all attributes. Then, now that the layer is precomped you should select the precomp layer in your original comp and apply the posterize time effect (not as an expression, I read it doesn’t work in cs4). Then you can set the frame rate to whatever you want.
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Can you explain what you are using the posterize time effect to do?
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If you are in CS3 or CS4, search your effects and presets search for seperate x, y, z position. Then, make your layer a 3D layer, apply this preset. Then go to the z position in this effect. Apply the expression, index-1 . Then duplicate your layer and turn the shy switch for the layer on. Duplicate is a bunch more times, perhaps 10 or 15. Basically each layer will be 1 pixel back in z space, so when it is viewed from the side it will give the illusion of depth. You can turn the shy switch for the comp on so you don’t have to see all of the layers. To sell the effect it sometimes helps to have a light in your comp, or turn a bevel alpha on all of the layers behind the first layer.
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Looks nice. Cool work. One suggestion on the crashing during render is to go into your memory and cache settings and change both to 20 and 20. Only use this for rendering, it will make ram previews not be able to cache a lot.
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Do you want a thick plane in 3d space or do you want it to be able to do a page turn and bend.
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Go to your memory and cache settings and try changing the two numbers to 20 and 20 when rendering this. It won’t overload your ram and probably won’t crash.
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Precomp, then wiggle?