Kevin Dearing
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Hi Simon,
Thanks – and yes, I wasn’t really using mask / matte correctly.. I was indeed using them interchangably in my post.This is just a project for myself to get to know AE and make my mistakes now if you know what I mean.. So I don’t expect this to turn out exceptionally well (which is why I [being the actor myself] didn’t mimic being hit beyond just a basic, initial impact kind of pose..) Not worried about it – but indeed, I’m learning the hard way – which is basically my purpose – get those painful experiences out of the way as much as possible when _I_ am the client..
So I now know a lot of the limitations (and strengths) of the puppet tool! Cool!
Anyway, since this is really a project where I’m trying to learn the ropes, I was hoping to learn some of the more or less best-practices in the industry…
(BTW, I’m a computer programmer by trade, though I worked in the Entertainment industry in CA for about 6 years a while back before I decided [ok, before my wife decided] that 18 hour days were a bit too long for a family life!)
So, I guess I really only have two more questions, one of which I’ll post as a separate question and probably on a more appropriate forum…
How should I deal with the person’s shadow – should I include that in the animated mask or re-create it using a different method? (I’m sure it depends on the footage to a degree – I’m just looking for a more or less best practice and I know that, especially in creative work, ‘rules’ should be broken in the right circumstances)
–KTFA
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Just thought that I’d let everyone know that I didn’t come up with an AE solution – (but as I get to know AE better – I’m stuborn enough to play around with some ideas of my own..)
Anyway, I’m learning Blender 3D to accomplish what I want to do.. (Going slow, but not too bad – still on schedule!)
–KTFA
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Originally I was just previewing in Windows media player but then I took a closer look at a ram preview and verified what I thought before – black flash so then I loaded it into Premiere and there it was.. black frame.
One other thing I noticed when watching a tuturial today – my current time indicator doesn’t go right up against the end of the comp work area – the blue line.. (ie, frame 29). So I just tried using the go to (clicking on the time code and entering 1 sec. It went.. (but then again, it also goes to 1;02 when the comp is only 1;00 long..
Frustrating! (The black frame at the tail of all of my comps)
–KTFA
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I kinda thought that was what was happening which is why I didn’t think much of it originally. (Though it looks like there is another frame at the end of the comp). I wonder why I got the black frame at the end of my rendered output.. This doesn’t make sense to me, but could it be because I may have placed my last keyframe 2 frames past the last one for a loop?
–KTFA
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Ok, good luck then (sorry I couldn’t help)
–KTFA
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I tried that too – in fact I was trying to make a looping animation and I was indeed able to put the keyframe past the last frame, but I still couldn’t get the current time indicator to go to the last frame.. ie, frame 30 of a 30 frame comp – could only get to frame 29.
It’s not that it was a big problem – the problem came in when I looked at the rendered file – it had a black frame at the end – frame 30 which is when I tried to get there with my current time indicator.
It’s weird and doesn’t make sense..
I’m wondering if I should re-install???
–KTFA
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That’s what I tried to do (in additon to the ‘O’ shortcut key) – it always tops one frame before end of comp. From there I tried a bunch of stuff including Page Down..
–KTFA
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Zoom out from your comp and see if your scaling handles for the image in your comp are extended past the outter edge of the comp – if so, scale your image down to fit the comp..
If not, I guess I don’t know what’s going on (too new with AE)
–KTFA
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Hi David,
I’m stilly quite the noob myself, but from a lot of the tuturials I’ve seen here on the COW and over at videocopilot, I gather that you can start your tracking backwards from the frame just before your target goes out of frame. Then, you can track forward from the point where it comes back in.If you are stabilizing the footage and not trying to do something else with the tracking data then I’m guessing that you could manually adjust the frames where your target is out, or, duplicate the clip, trim it to the part where you are missing the tracking data, pick a new target for that portion, track it, then copy / paste or pickwhip the keyframes..
I have a good idea of how to do it – whether or not it will work, or if it is appropriate to your situation I’m not sure. But my big question is, did anyone except me understand what I said above? 🙂
–KTFA