[Klemens Hertha]

Thanks for your answers!

@Dave: Which status window you refer to? Anyway, I’ve also already tried using an alpha matte, but the spill supression needed would again turn the toothbrush orange.
Regarding the amount of light: Really? Darker? Cause in my experience it’s often more difficult, the darker the green is, because you also have more noise in the footage which makes keying especially of hair far more difficult and also the results often look worse. At least in my opinion. Am I wrong?
But it would be an important information as we soon have our next greenscreen shooting. Also which cameras do you guys prefer for greenscreen shootings?

@Michael: Yes, I’ve tried that too. The problem is that the toothbrush indeed stays yellow but it is not opaque. To make it opaque I have again to turn screen balance or Clip White down which again leaves me with that ugly border around the arm.

@Todd: Good News! Althoug we’ve also bought the Keying Suite which comes with Primatte Keyer which has similar effects included but maybe the new ones included with AE perform better!? I hope so and I’m looking forward to it!

[Klemens Hertha]

I know this posting was made a few month ago but maybe some other guys still need the answer:
The refine edge-options become available as soon as you make the first stroke with the refine edge tool (press and hold mouse on roto brush tool).

[Klemens Hertha]

Ok, I’ve suspected that already… Thanks anyway!

[Klemens Hertha]

Thanks again, Dan! Works!
Although I don’t understand this one anymore… 😉

[Klemens Hertha]

Ok, sorry, zoom was not correct of course, I’m moving the camera on the z-axis! And this is also how the expression (above) should know when it should start / stop moving – by the “if (z < -1777)”-condition!

And no, the initial camera-movement (from left to right) is NOT keyframed! This is what I did with the “x = value[0] + (time-3) * 30;”. I have only the z-movement keyframed right now. But when I think about it, it was maybe really the wrong approach… Cause time still passes by when the expression is “disabled” by the if-condition and needless to say the x-value changes too!
So is there a better (maybe even simpler) way to do this? Sometimes I’m thinking too comlicated… 😉

Regards,
Klemens

[Klemens Hertha]

Hi Dan (again) ;)!

Sorry, if I didn’t make clear what I’m trying to do!
I have a collage of pictures which should slowly pass by from left to right by camera movement. Then – at some certain point – I want to zoom in to one specific picture by keyframing the camera so that it is fullscreen. While it is fullscreen (let’s say for 2 sec) the camera should not move! After that I want to zoom back out to the collage by keyframing the camera again. And from here on the camera should move again from left to right with the same speed like before. So if it is not possible to pick up the last x-value before zooming in, what about if I just tell the camera the x-value with the last keyframe from zooming out? Is that possible? Or do you maybe know another way of doing this?

Regards,
Klemens

[Klemens Hertha]

I once knew how to do this with expressions but I forgot… 😉
But why can’t you change the font with the numbers effect?? When you apply the effect to a layer, the first thing you are asked for is the font! Alternatively you can click on “options” in the effects panel!

Regards,
Klemens

[Klemens Hertha]

You are awesome! Thank you!

I’m not in the office anymore, but I’ll definitely try this on Monday!

Btw: I’ve just discovered your website today – I’ll do some further reading there for sure!

Best regards,
Klemens

[Klemens Hertha]

Great, thanks again! 🙂

One last short (different) question: Is there a way to apply an expression to many effect controls at the same time rather than pasting it to every single one separately? Like if I have 100 puppet-pins and I want the same expression on every pin – is there any trick I dont know??

[Klemens Hertha]

Works like a charm! Thank you so much!

Just for my understanding, please tell me if I got this right: The linear-expression uses only value1 (in this case loopOut) until tMin is reached, and after tMin is reached it interpolates over the specified fadeTime to value2. Correct?