Karim Daire
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Hello Dan,
thanks for your reply…
I got auto orient on and its working now but I had to place all layers by hand. When I moved the anchor point and rotated each layer by x degrees the auto orient would not work. Is that right?? Does auto orient only work for layers which are not rotated??As for the expression…
toWorld(anchorPoint)
Where do I place it and how do i extract the z-position from it to use e.g. for transparency? Sorry, but I only use exressions rarely and always have to start from scratch.
Karim
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Thanks for your replies. I knew it was something about “capture now” but didn’t switch the control to “non-controllable device”. Now it works fine, thanks!
Karim
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I don’t believe it… I found the magic button by mistake! I turned on 3D also for the objects I animated in 2D in my source footage and now I get crisp zooms.. thank god.
Anyway… I got a new problem now…. SIncle Illustrator layers throw shadows in 3D Space. Compositions with precomposed vector footage don’t. I cando complex nested 3D Animations with vectors but only with collapse transformations in my source composition turned on. No Shadows there… as soon as I turn it off I get a flat layer in 3D space again… and a shadow. Is that right?
Karim
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If you got complex objects drawn on screen I found the vector paint tool saved time for tedious animation of single strokes. In case you got overlapping objects you have to split your illustrator file to several layers which are drawn on the screen seperately.
Karim
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Do you have the latest videobundle? As far as I know you can include AE-Compositions in Premiere without rendering so you can tweak details after including the comp. For older versions I guess this is the way to go, but you can use Alpha clips depending on what effects you want to do.This way you could skip quality-loss through double-encoding.
Karim
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Hi,
thanks for replying my post. I tried pre-comping and shifting the comps in time and position. But since its a movement which starts slowly with rotation, then gets faster with rotating back to zero and ends slowly on the seabed I can’t get the precomps to fit. So I always end up with “holes” in my pipeline. How would you do that?
Karim
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The change of colour / saturation is in my case not just a monitor gamma problem. If I import clips from WIn on MAC and encode them to DVD the result is more flat than when encoding directly on Windows… the difference is also seen on standalone DVD-Players then. How do you solve the change in Gamma and Saturation between platforms?
Karim
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Hi,
what does “low results” mean exactly? Artefacts, messed up colors or stuttering frames?? I never had problems rendering PAL-Sequences in QT with Avid Meridian Codecs (upper field first) and importing them between MAC/PC but the colors do shift when changing platforms (seems to be a Gamma-Thing)… do you have a similar problem?
Karim
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Hi Steven,
the KFC ad rather looked like a 3D Application, doesn’t it? I guess that with some Sweep Nurbs on bending paths and animating start/end Points that should be a lot less keyframe-intensive and more natural looking (not regarding render-times) than in AE… maybe someone working with a 3D plugin for AE has a hint there?!?
Karim
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Hi,
I had similar problems and render-times go nuts with large worldmaps, so I went to transitioning. Just make your zoomin on the globe/sphere as far as it looks OK, then blent to another zoom into the close map of burma and surrounding. A nice way of transitioning is the trapcode shine with the images own colours along with a motion blur.
But since you asked the question… I guess you use a satellite picture to map on the globe. To avoid pixelation I tried to use Illustrator-Maps… but I can’t get around the pixelation issue there too. Either its pixelating or the mapping messes up when changing the layer transformation… Any hints??? 🙂
Karim