Finally, an answer that works for me. One of my biggest headaches ever since they introduced shapes. How is this still a bug?

Hello all,

We are to film some volleyball players in front of a video wall. The following video was our inspiration:
https://youtu.be/YLFVD8xaD3U?si=_EyaOurjhiDDazjt

We are shooting on a A7siii at 59.97 at shutter speed of 1/120

We are afraid we’ll get strobing. Any advice on how to shoot this correctly?

Thanks!

Grading depends on what the footage looks like in the first place, but blow out the highlights, raise the blacks and adjust gamma to your liking. Looks like there is some chromatic aberration going on there as well, so try this https://www.plugineverything.com/qcav2

Also, maybe add gate weave or film overlay etc. There is no exact way to do this,…

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Hello all, I have been tasked with producing a “forward moving” video for a college (Project still in development stages.) Basically, it is a shot from POV of new student walking on campus. I am planning to shoot smooth forward dollies using a gimbal or small drone. The client would like to see a CGI path moving forward on the ground in front…

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I fear you have a corrupt file. Do you have access to a more original source file. Hopefully still on camera. How long is the clip supposed to be and how big is the data?

I’d use 3D text on a motion path derived from a 3D mask path. For text, just use periods with sets of your colors. Auto orientate towards camera. I’ve uploaded a quick example.

That looks like a simple 3D object built within AE using Cinema 4D renderer. Make a cell phone shaped rectangle with rounded corners, extrude the path and then do the same to buttons. then add color. This one seems like they aren’t using lights to give that flat effect. For stuff like this, I work in normal 3D renderer with a flat piece to get…

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Try Smoother. It’s in the windows dropdown.

Maybe temporarily add more contrast pre-camera solve. Try to really bring out those marks. Might have to precomp. Solve to get the data then turn off the high contrast effect. Worth a try.

Might be easier to replace the entire plate. Redo the plate in photoshop and then use either AE’s corner pin motion tracking or Mocha tracking to replace. Might have to match lighting and shadows. I’ve had to do this in the past and found this method to work best for me. Good luck.

To go even further, you could use Automator plus a Photoshop script to make an application or service. For Mac of course, but there is probably a way to make a watch folder somehow on PCs too. Here’s kind of what I’m talking about: https://www.howtogeek.com/363868/how-to-batch-resize-images-with-automator-on-mac/

After Effects is not intended for compression – only recently in last 3 years or so has dynamic link allowed this to be a possibility. Not sure why you are getting an error. I would export out a master file in quicktime ProRes 422 HQ. Then bring that into Media Encoder and set to .h264. May seem redundant, but other than a workaround for your…

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I opened your project and also could not get it to work using Obscuration Layer. So I precomped the christmas tree, moving all attributes into new comp. Then in main comp, I make the new precomp 3D, turn off accepts lights, and then in particular I chose that layer as the obscuration layer. Seems to work now. Hope it works for you. Cheers.

Obstruction layer should do it. That is under “visibility”. If that is not behaving as you want it, I believe you will have to make 2 instances of particular. So get the particle exactly like you want it. Then duplicate that layer. Again, you will have to play with the “visibility” settings. Change the far and near vanish on those 2 layers…

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