Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I didn’t say you should EXPORT anything. Save them as copies of the original Premiere projects where all video footage has been deleted and import the PROJECTS, wherein the separate original audio files contained in them will be imported.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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There you go.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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This is going to be guessing, since I don’t know what MsVOLT does, but one thing that does seem unusual is that the font is a TTF font while you’re using OTF features. Have you tried saving the font as OTF? Maybe that confuses InDesign?
MsWord doesn’t recognize this as an opentype font and I can’t get your modifications to even show up there regardless of it being a Microsoft piece of software. That’s kinda fishy, isn’t it?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Ok, I see.
I have never done it that way. I use Element 3D to do such things directly inside After Effects. After Effects has a built-in 3D camera tracker that allows you to recreate the 3D camera and add objects in 3D space. There’s also a light version of Cinema 4D that is integrated right into After Effects. Personally I prefer Element 3D due to rendering speeds as well as ease of use. (Element 3D is commercial but quite affordable.)
Doing it the way you describe, which I don’t see any problem with, I would still include the trees in the 3D model and just cover over the original trees that way. You will save a lot of time that way.
One problem you may encounter, depending on what drone the footage was shot with, is lens distortion. If you can either match the lens settings in rendering or remove it from the footage, that might save you some grief. If you render some stills from different parts of the shot and text composite them in the appropriate spot over the footage, you should be able to tell if this is something that you need to account for.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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How about saving audio-only version (deleting all video from a copy of the project) of the five projects and then importing the projects into your master project?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Other than doing the fix in another font editing software, which would be a more permanent solution and which I would suggest, there is a temporary “easy fix”, which is to use the original font but make a character format with suitable baseline offset and/or kerning values for that one letter and then use a search and replace to assign the character format to that letter in one go. Obviously you would have to do remember to do this every time, so it is not ideal.
Looks like Fontographer and Fontlab are both owner by Fontlab these days. Those are the two best font editing software that I know of. Kinda pricey though.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Lens correction cannot change the distance from which you shoot the photo, it just fixes the curving of straight lines at the lens edges.
The right solution should be obvious, but here are two unusual an non-optimal ideas for your situation:
1) Shoot with 55 mm from as far away as you can get and crop
2) Shoot with 135 mm via a mirror and flip
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Switching from metrics to optical kerning fixes the issue, although I don’t know if the result looks like you want it to, in terms of where the characters are located in relation to each other.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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You should be able to do this with the After Effects 3D camera tracker and a masked layer. A lot faster, I suspect.
I’d first speed up the footage to the final speed so as not to have to track extraneous footage.
I’d leave the trees out of the equation altogether. It will take 20 times longer to mask out the trees by hand afterwards than to do the tracking of the flat plane. The borders of the development area are on the ground anyways, and you have a see-through mask layer, so (at least I think) that should suffice.
You seem to already have a ready-to-go mask shape. If you didn’t I would have suggested looking the place up on google maps satellite view and drawing it from that top-down perspective.
There will be some manual adjustment of the mask throughout the shot in any case due to camera lens distortion and any variations in the ground level.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Use the direct selection tool instead of the object selection tool.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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