[Marc Lucas]

Hi Mark

Here are a couple of grabs from the ad, the clips were only a couple of seconds long within the ad.

Window 1 was just a quick and easy flat wall in C4D and I added a 3D picture frame and an image I took in London. The second was a stock kitchen shot. The perspective makes the room look an odd shape but for the time the clip was on you don’t really take that in.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Window_1.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Window_2.png

[Marc Lucas]

That is a great little mockup I really appreciate the time and effort you have put in there!
What I didn’t mention is that these clips are to be included into an existing TV ad that is all live action of the same kind of thing but at an actual house. The big problem is that they need to kind of look like they were taken at the same time as the original filming so to keep the realism up I was thinking just a narrow corridor for the BGs so the less you have going on the more possibility of blending in with the other clips etc.
I tried a Key in FCPX (same keyed as in Motion I believe) and I got really good results even though the crinkles and lightning wasn’t that good. On the shot we only had very small spaces to work in thats why the lighting wasn’t 100%

I’ll have a go at the creating a 3D box scenario like you mentioned but just try it with a narrow corridor and see how that comes out. I was even thinking of having a go in C4D.

Again many thanks for you time I’ll let you know how I get on.

[Marc Lucas]

Here’s the screen grabs of the shots.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Window_1.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Window_2.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Window_3.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2003727/Con_1.jpg

Thanks for the reply!

[Marc Lucas]

It’s not ctrl + Shift

I click down on the mouse then press ⌘ & then Shift then drag out

[Marc Lucas]

I’m really not sure what I’m doing wrong but its not happening for me, I don’t get it.

[Marc Lucas]

Doesn’t seem to be working for me, after using those commands the circle still comes out of the top left.

[Marc Lucas]

It was set to cm not pixels:-)

Thanks for your patients….what an idiot I am!

[Marc Lucas]

Thats not happening. I have an image (which isn’t the dimensions I’m after) and like I’ve said I set a fixed size click in the image and regardless of the size of the image it only selects the outer edges.

The other two functions word OK just the fixed size isn’t.

[Marc Lucas]

I’m just revisiting this and carrying out the steps. I select ‘fixed dimension’ set the dimensions but then when I click on the image (with the marquee selected) all that happens is that the marquee selects just the outer edges of the image, not giving me the fixed area I inputted in the toolbar.

[Marc Lucas]

Hi

The file played perfectly OK after export from FCPX its only when it went into AE that I got the audio distortion.