Kalleheikki Kannisto
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COW Coin
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You’ll need to add corner points at those eight locations where the edges meet (where your red arrows point). Easier to do if you lock the top object first. Once you have added the corner points, you can select all the points (where your brown arrows start, but all four of them) and scale them. Since it’s symmetrical, they will scale around the center correctly.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I kinda suspect you will have to manually animate using Premiere corner pin to try and match the AE render.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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One way to get strokes only is to copy the layer, choke the shapes by a couple of pixels (add a white stroke effect, use minimax or some such method) and use the result as a track matte to cut out the insides.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I’ve had great success with Re:Vision DeFlicker as well. Not a fast process, though. Expect one hour of processing per minute of footage. Five hours of footage could take weeks to chew through at that rate. Better lock down an edit first to see what actually needs to be processed.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Yes, that’s better.
To point out the obvious: a phone camera isn’t the ideal camera for such. Apart from quality issues, I suspect you need to be very close to the glass, which gives you reflection image over a large area behind the camera.
I would set this up in a room rather than outside if you have suitable lighting equipment for it. That way you can have a dark room with the lights only on the backdrop and the liquid. Black curtains or board on the reflection side is definitely a plus. perhaps place the camera slightly obliquely so that it doesn’t reflect on the glass. But not so far off axis that it creates a double image through the glass. A camera with a decent zoom would help with this. Also, if the background is REALLY white, it helps alleviate any remaining reflections.
Black background would be a good option as well. Then you would only have to light the tank.
PS. It is a very nice effect indeed. As it happens, I am reading James Gleick’s “Chaos” currently, where he’s talking about turbulences in water and air. Now you got me wanting to try this out…
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Ok, this would then be a question for the Premiere forum.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Why do you want to do it in Premiere?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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That link goes to a site which had a nasty pop-up ad attack that got past my Norton security. Please post file somewhere sensible.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Replace the 3D solid in After Effects with your footage of choice.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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You can use
value-valueAtTime(0)+[value[0] , apos+(ah*s/100)+(h*s1/100)+d]as your last line. That way the original position value will not affect the position and it ends up being exactly in the same place — as long as you don’t move the 2nd object during those first 250 frames.Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer