Markmc
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“Anyway my problem is I go to export or render as an avi file, set the alpha to ‘straight’ and when the file renders it renders with an opaque black background, no transparency”
What program are you viewing it in? AND is that program interpreting the avi properly iow does it know that the avi has a alpha channel? What type of avi did you render it to? DV codecs do not support alpha channels.
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Absolutely.Wouldn’t be nice to have the option of a top view,side view ect so you can see where your cameras are? That is why I’m so dissappointed to not see that listed as one of Red 4’s new features. I really like the interface of Red over AE but I’m using AE more and more and Red less. I’d even consider Blue in spite of the substantial cost to upgrade from Red if it had those features available.
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I think one of the big things lacking for Red users are tutorials on how to do fabulous effects. There are tons of them for After Effects. Red is probably capable of doing some unbelievable things but you have to invent them yourself. One area in particular that seems to be hit and miss is animating lights and cameras in 3d space. Some tutorials that would show how to better control that would be welcome as would some simple things like rotoscoping,masking, using the pixel chooser,creating custom maps to control effects just to name a few. Most of the material (owners manual) available just shows what a control does but no indication of where and how you would use that in your daily workflow. I gotta think that this lack of knowledge-base really hurts the penetration of Red in the marketplace.
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It didn’t say. Under Blue vs Red a pro for Blue was hardware assisted preview and render. I would conclude from that the Red requirements will be the same as Red 3.0; opengl cards will add funtionality but not be required to operate it. This is just conjecture though.
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Fair enough. I’m just going by the info released by Boris and the list of new features. There was a fairly long list of new features but no indication that a larger list would be forthcoming. My personal preference is to work in Red but the features I mentioned are important to my workflow, without them…
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Right. More of a cross grade. But exactly what is Blue? Looks pretty much like what Red would evolve into. Looks like more refined 3d tools but still it’s a compositing program right? It’s not a full fledged 3d program is it? For $2000 what 3d program could I buy? For that matter since I have Red already what 3d program could I buy for $1000? $1000 for a “cross-grade” $300 for a version upgrade and $100 for a point(bugfix?) upgrade is by no means generous. Compared to competitors it’s a little on the steeper end. Adobe letting me buy the CS2 Standard Suite (Photoshop,Illustrator,and Indesign) for $549 on a Photoshop 5.5 upgrade is generous. Upgrading After Effects 5.0 to version 7.0 for $200-that, is generous.
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I feel your pain about buying plugins that are soon included for free in software. I bought Cult Effects from Cycore and Evolution from Atomic Power, within a year of buying them Adobe bought them and started including the majority of them in After Effects. I think Boris needs to take a critical look at their pricing. $300 for a version upgrade in Red? Compared to Adobe’s $200 AE upgrade.$1000 to go from Red to Blue? I dunno…
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In the control window for the tracker filter is there an advanced tab? That’s where you’d choose what parameter the tracking data is applied to. The complaint I have about the Boris method for doing this is the convoluted nesting of clips into filters and such. I think you will save time by doing it in AE. I just went into Red to try to recreate what I did in AE and tracking the clip and it applied to another clip -no problem BUT when I added a mask to clip that tracking data was applied to the mask did not move with the clip- must be it needs to all be put in a container/3d layer. Also I had to put a duplicate clip at the bottom of the stack because the track that is being tracked is nested in a tracker filter layer that is nested in the layer that has the data applied to it thereby making it invisible. Sound confusing? It is. Do it in AE.
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Now that AE 7 has added the preset animations that you can just drag onto a layer Adobe has moved in the direction that Red excelled in but it’s not quite the same yet. AE7 integration with Premiere Pro 2 is improved it looks although I don’t use Premiere Pro I can’t say for sure. I will say that both are great tools (Red and AE) to use and they have strengths over each other.After Effects 7.0 Pro new interface it a huge improvment over 6.5 and Boris will need to step it up to compete with it IMO.
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Perhaps this is something that the new version will improve upon the workflow. It seems that it is way more complicated than it needs to be. In AE Pro 7.0 you just apply either a tracking animation or track stabilization to a track/layer-in the settings window you choose which layer the tracking infomation is applied to and what coordinates it’s applies to. Here is a spot I did using tracking tools in AE https://home.stny.rr.com/mcluvlyland/loganRevised.wmv
I would have done this in Red but it was so easy to do in AE and the results were satisfactory that I didn’t. Normally I used Red for this type of thing but using the tools in AE for the first time WITHOUT reading a manual I got the results I needed pretty quickly
As a side note what do any of you Red owners think about the upgrade price to Blue?