Kevin Camp
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usually you can rotate you object on a single axis, say a globe spinning on its y axis. then to tilt the globe 15 degrees on its z or x axis, you could just parent it to a null (or other layer) and rotate the null 15 degrees on the z or x axis. the globe would then follow the angle of the nul, while still rotating around its own y axis.
Kevin Camp
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me too
🙂
Kevin Camp
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there would be pluses and minuses either way….
nucleo pro (i think nucleo standard isn’t available any more, but i could be wrong), has nice extras like background rendering, and, i think, a way to render previews in the background while you work in ae (i guess background preview rendering…) so you won’t be waiting as long to see previews.
a new version of ae, has improved caching that speeds up renders along with allowing multiple render engines to use available processors, similar to nucleo pro, but without the ability to do background processes. you would also get some new effects and features in a new version, like timewarp, pixel motion for frame blending, impoved 3d and better opengl support (and more).
either way, you’d also like to get more ram to feed the extra processors that can be used.
Kevin Camp
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i think i understand your situation better now (i probably just needed to read a little more carefully the first time). i was thinking of rotating images like they were spinning photos or postcards, but you have and image sequence of a truck rotating…. got it.
you will be looking at having to interpolate pixels to try and smooth the motion. as darby (i think) mentioned, you can do this via timewarp effect by enabling pixel motion. timewarp ahs other settings that can be tweaked to try and fix some problems that may occur with calculating pixel motion… time remap, can also use pixel motion by enabling it under layer>frame blending and enabling preview of frame blending in the timeline (this may depend on the version of ae, ae7 and up, i think).
for the spead up parts, reelsmart motion blur, from revision, can help a lot to create a soft motion blur on your footage. you can download a demo… but specific use of a direction blur effect, or possibly linking the blur to the time remapping/timewarp effect could work well.
Kevin Camp
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in addition, if you did much keying in 4.0 you should be very happy with the addition of keylight to the standard effects bundle.
Kevin Camp
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you may be able to adapt this tutorial on text that blows away like sand. it uses the standard ae effect, particle playground.
Kevin Camp
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here’s a post froma few weeks ago with a couple of ways for creating stop action like movement for video footage. i think the poster was trying to end up with still to take into photoshop, then resequence in ae… but some of these techniques would probably help you.
Kevin Camp
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reciting the help file….. pure genius
glad it helped
Kevin Camp
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you don’t have to do it by hand (dragging paths to new layers)… once you release to layers, in the lyaers palette, you will see a top layer, with several other layers ‘nested’ under it. jsut select all those layers and pull them above the ‘parent’ layer. the parent will now be empty, just throw it out, but all you ther layers will be separate now.
also, keep the pdf compatible option on… i just tried this technique the other day, and tested it with pdf on and off…. it seems the that ae needs the pdf option to maintain layers in an imported comp.
Kevin Camp
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interpolating pixels between frames to generate whole new frames isn’t exactly the ideal way to work, and it rarely works well for graphics (video footage is a little more forgiving).
can you bring those raw pics into ae? then just keyframe the rotation, but ease the final keyframe and you should get what you want. you’d also be able to enable motion blur, if needed. how complicated is the rotation?
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW