Kalleheikki Kannisto
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COW Coin
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An experimental idea comes to mind:
Use Stroke effect with settings that essentially create a dot moving along the path, render out, then track the dot, apply the motion to a null, attach hand to null.
There will undoubtedly be some large jumps that mess up the tracking, but you can go and do a fairly large search area and then track as far as you can, fix position manually when coming to something the tracker can’t handle, and keep going.
Possibly want to do some smoothing for the hand animation so it doesn’t jump in one frame from one side of the image to the other. Although that is not necessarily an issue since the usual style is speeded-up in any case.
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Then I would suggest looking into using the Stroke effect with masks. You can select “All masks” from the effect settings, and it will use all of the masks on a layer, no need to combine them. Animating from 0 to 100% it will draw the entire picture.
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It is possible that Automatic Layout Adjustment is enabled and is doing something when you delete pages. It should theoretically only change the layout if you resize the document or margins, but perhaps deleting a single page could cause some issues as well. See if it is enabled and turn it off if so.
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You can do that in AE: Export as an image sequence if you want to retouch them in Photoshop afterwards. Or retouch them in PS before aligning in AE.
Don’t forget that there’s a clone stamp tool in AE as well that is more geared to moving images.
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It is easy if the images are always the same size or can be resized to be so.
I would start the recording with (just) the two images open, the one you want on the left active, and do the following steps:
1. (If needed) resize active document to its final dimensions (half the final document size)
2. Select all, copy
3. Close document, don’t save
4. (If needed) resize active document (now your second image) to its final dimensions (half the final document size)
5. Resize canvas 200%, anchor at right
6. Select a small piece of the document at left edge (marquee)
7. Paste
(8. save document as…)Then open another pair of documents and play this action back.
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Use WhatTheFont (https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/). You can upload an image and the site will suggest the closest matches it knows. You’ll have to edit the image in photoshop to be (close to) black text on white background for better results.
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I have only exported SWF from Flash, but in Flash bitmap image quality is set by JPG quality, as well as by anti-aliasing (quality) settings for the comp and/or individual objects. The current version of AE doesn’t have SWF export so I can’t see what options there are for exporting SWF from AE.
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Looks like you’re losing half the resolution. Maybe you’re interpreting the footage as interlaced? (Check your interpret footage settings.)
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You will have a much better time of it if you reshoot the person on green screen.
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