Kevin Camp
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convert you r mp3 to an aiff or wave… ae doesn’t work well with compressed audio.
Kevin Camp
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andrew kramer’s videocopilot has some good tuts on muzzle flashes, one steps thru adding lighting effects on the scene and subject as the flash occurs.
Kevin Camp
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you may be able to do it with displacement maps. you would need to break up the tentacles on different layers and apply different maps, but it won’t be as clean as masks and stroke.
you might try just creating one tentacle that animates (possibly looping?). then duplicate that and offset the time or use time remap to change the timing so the tentacle seem to move independently.
Kevin Camp
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try dragging your footage in to a new comp, then duplicate and set the transfer mode, try a few under the mulitply mode. then assess how close you are to what you want. try bluring the upper layer a little, maybe adjust levels of curves some too if you need to darken the darker areas or lighten up the areas you don’t want to effect.
then if you want to focus in on specific areas, duplicate the upper layer and try using masksto issolate those areas, adjust feathering and opacity as needed to help blend.
Kevin Camp
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i do think duplicating the layer and setting the upper layer to a trnasfer mode of multiply or one of the burn modes would help dim the people. you might try a little blur and a levels or curves adjust to that layer too.
if you lose some of the glow on the fire, you can always add that back later.
Kevin Camp
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not that i know of…. i’m not sure how ae would know which layer’s in point it was supposed to line up with the cti, and have the others position themselve relative to that….
you can, however, choose several layers with varying inpoints and hold the shift key as you drag them to snap the inpoint of one layer to the current time, keeping the others relative.
Kevin Camp
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you might try shooting some stuff on your own. detonation actually outlines some of their setups and some cheap alternatives to pro chroma setups (they have an $18 chroma green paint recipe). just find a little dv camera, buy some green paint, make some fake blood, do some shooting and try keying it. it could be a fun weekend, and you’ll learn a lot more about uing ae.
if you get some good stuff you could post it for others to use too.
Kevin Camp
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while you’re at it you might as well install color finesse and keylight.
Kevin Camp
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as mentioned adjusting the level outputs to black 16 and white 235 may help scale those levels… also, if you are taking the image into photoshop first, this action called deflickerator does a great job of softening the detail that causes interlace jitter while not effecting the rest of the image… dowload it and ty it out (it free).
calibrating your monitor is good start. on macs, the built in visual calibrator allows yo to calibrate as accurately as you eye is, it not the greatest but better than nothing. i’m not sure about windows. however colorvision has a calibrator called spyder pro that is pretty good and only about $250 (they have a cheaper one for under $100), the pro has a profile for ntsc, but you can also pull in the smpte-c profile from photoshop.
you may also want to check the calibration of your broadcast monitor. call up smpte-c bars and adjust brightness and contrast so you can only see the lightest (of three) gray bars at the bottom right of the screen. then switch to blue check, and adjust the phase and chroma until the four large bars all match the small blocks bellow them.
after all that, you may still need to desaturate and adjust the image to get the color you are looking for.
Kevin Camp
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they may have used an effect called 3d stroke by trapcode. it is similar to the sstandard stroke effect in that it can be use to trace a mask/path an animate that line along the path. 3d stroke gives more control over the line with settings for taper and softness, along with 3d space transforms.
these shapes are simple enough that i think you could make the curves in illustrator or photoshop and animate their rotation.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW