[Malcolm Desoto]

Dave, I’ve tried a number of different codecs. I am running AE 9 though.

Kevin, You are correct, if I were shooting with a Red, keying would be easier.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Ha well…I meant “relatively simple”…in concept ;p

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[Malcolm Desoto]

oh, okay good. So it is a practical effect and is as simple as playing the line or whatever in reverse. Thanks!

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[Malcolm Desoto]

I don’t think that’s true at all, Kevin. While it is certainly compressed, you can definitely get a clean key if you use proper lighting and know how to use keylight. I’ve been using a DSLR for about a year now and have had great keying results.

As for the rendering issue, I’m not sure what happened. I was able to render out the project (painstakingly slow) but it finally all rendered out. When I have more time, I’ll scrutinize the project more closely.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

I ended up setting it to purge after every frame and was able to render out 10 or so frames at a time :/

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Well, no idea what the deal is. Changing the encoding doesn’t help.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Although, I’ve done projects in the past using footage derived from the same camera with no problems. Odd that it should just act up now.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Multiprocessing is not turned on
Open GL is not turned on for previews or rendering.

The footage did originate from a DSLR. I’m re-exporting it from Avid using an animation codec to see if that makes a difference…

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[Malcolm Desoto]

that would be ideal, but I don’t have enough time to animate or film it this time around. Next time.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Yeah, I thought about that, but I have a number of logos I have to do this to and each needs to be a little different as far as how it moves in relation to the logo. I ended up using the puppet tool and it turned out to be fairly convincing with not a ton of manual keyframing.

Just one keyframe at the drop, another on the bounce up to ‘kink’ the rope, and then one final for the resting place.

I can now substitute in the other logos with fair ease.

Guess, I shoulda worked on this a bit more before posting :/

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