Mark Fogarty
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I’m surprised that the Photo-JPEG file isn’t playing smoothly… are you able to try it on another machine. I would also consider raising the quality from 75 to perhaps 85-95 and see what happens. Don’t waste your hard drive space by putting it to 100 though, all you will get is a huge file with no difference in quality. It will create a video with 4:4:4 color space even though the original was probably 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 or some such thing.
I do wonder, though, if Photo-JPEG is the best format to provide an HD commerical to somebody. My immediate thought would be to provide a QuickTime with Animation compression… this is loseless and will give the people a high quality file which they convert to whatever works best for them.
I would also ask the people who you will be providing the commercial to what specs they want the video in.
Sorry I couldn’t be much help here… I can’t say I’ve done any HD commericals. I’m just surprised you haven’t been given specific details on the file type and compression that is required.
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Danny
yeah… it can be kinda confusing because when you went in and made the changes the Output Module will now say “based on whatever the default was” that you made the changes to, even though it no longer has any similarity to the original settings.
If you make a new template and make that new template the default movie render settings, than when you add to the render queue you won’t see that.
Mark
Mark Fogarty
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Danny
Photo-JPEG is a type of QuickTime movie. In the render queue click the “link” to the right of the Output Module dropdown… this will take you to the Output Module settings. In the Format dropdown select QuickTime Movie… then click “Format Options” in the Video Output section. Once there you will select Photo-JPEG in the compression type drop down. It is also here where you set the quality number by using the slider at the bottom.
Also, if your video has audio make sure you check the Audio Output box in the Output Module Settings.
Finally… if you plan on exporting to Photo-JPEG often I would recommend you create a custom template and then make it the default export settings for your render queue… it will save you time.
To do that just select “Make Template” in the Output Module dropdown in the render queue… give your template a name and click “Edit” to do the settings you want. Finally, at the top of the Output Module Templates screen you can choose your newly named template at the “Movie default”.
Hope this helps.
Mark Fogarty
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Muddy River Media
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I’m sure there are better ways but what I’ve done to make a layer thicker in z-space is to add duplicate layers behind it and then parent them to your original layer.
Something to keep in mind when doing this…
If the video you want to add thickness to is a shape you can easily recreate as a solid (ie. a rectangle) I wouldn’t duplicate the actual video layer numerous times, but would create a solid layer that same size and position it exactly 1 pixel behind in z-space… then duplicate this solid layer and move each copy back 1 pixel.
If the element you wish to add thickness to is a shape that is difficult to duplicate or that actually changes shape (like a keyed out figure) then you might have to duplicate the actually source layer a number of times.
Some things I’ve done in a similar situation was to insert keyed out footage of a person… duplicated that layer once and moved it back in z-space… added a white fill to the duplicated layer… added a simple choker with a negative number to the duplicated layer, this gives the appearance of a white border to my actor making it look like a cartoon child’s pop up book… then I duplicate this filled layer a number of times moving each one further back in z-space… finally I parent all the duplicated layers to the original layer and make them shy.
Hope this helps.
Mark Fogarty
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Muddy River Media
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I’m not sure if it’s practical or not for your situation, but you could have your actor walk very slowly down the sidewalk while everybody else moves at real time… then in post you speed up the footage and add some effects that Eran Stern talks about in this tutorial.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Time_FX.php
The challenge would be for the actor to walk that slowly yet smoothly so it looks natural when sped up.
Mark Fogarty
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Muddy River Media
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Tony
It could be a plugin but you can easily create a similar look without a plugin. Here’s what I would do (although I’m sure there are 17 better ways).
Create a text layer and type a character… any character, using a font/symbol set you like the look of. In the example you showed, it looks like there are several characters in a vertical line, so perhaps type a character, hit return, type a character, hit return, etc…
Twirl down the layer properties, than twirl down Text.
Click on the Animate flyout and select “Character Offset”.
Keyframe the Character Offset so the values of the characters you’ve typed change every frame (or however rapidly you want them to). Somebody will probably suggest an expression you can use to do the same thing… I’m as sharp as a marble and don’t know much about expressions.
I would suggest creating this text layer as a separate comp, perhaps called “Flicker text”. Now, whenever you want that effect simply add that comp above your video layer and start messing around with the text color, transfer modes, opacity, scale, position, maybe even a bit of fast blur, to get the look you want.
On your example it seems like not only are the characters changing, bu their position is dropping vertically. Simply keyframe the “Flicker text” comp’s position to do that.
That’s what I would do, hope it helps.
Mark Fogarty
Media Missionary
Muddy River Media
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I don’t know much about expressions, but what I did was to put the back side of the page/cover 1 pixel deeper in Z space. Then I parented the back side to the front side. Now when I turn the front page, the back page moves with it.
While it doesn’t show the back side of the pages very much, I used this technique to create this video…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xXZ1zFqfc
Mark Fogarty
Media Missionary
Muddy River Media
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I personally think that Revostock has great selection for great prices… I always check there first.
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You might want to check out Andrew Kramer’s tutorial about proxies as well…
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/proxies_and_workflow_tips/
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Control Shift D is also a nice quick keyboard shortcut to use to divide a layer at the point where your timeline marker is. I use it all the time.