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Matthew Beall
June 18, 2011 at 2:17 am in reply to: Shooting a clean image of a phone screen

Some of the phones do have HDMI out.. Unfortunately, only one of our phones do (we are shooting almost 20 phones) and it doesn’t show the homescreen/desktop for interaction.. It just shows photos and videos when the HDMI is hooked up..
Matthew Beall
June 17, 2011 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Shooting a clean image of a phone screen

Hi Todd,

I understand replacing the screen, in fact I am an animator and I have several 3D phones I’m animating for other projects.. Sadly, I have found no way to get a clean video capture of a phone screen that I can use as a texture for my 3D phones.. I’m having to settle for screen captures..

On this project, however, we have to show user interaction.. We have a real person showing several “how-to” examples on real phones.. We have found no way to shoot the phone where we can get a clear image of the screen.. Is it because the 5D is too high-res? Everything is locked down.. I think the director is going for the ‘phone in white void’ i-phone commercial look..

Thanks
Matthew Beall
January 19, 2011 at 2:39 am in reply to: DVD Architect Arrow Indicator

Got it..

Set your Inactive button color to the background color or transparent.. Then it dissapears when not active!
Matthew Beall
December 28, 2010 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Text extruded in Photoshop doesn’t motion blur

There are other problems..

The 3D layers pop on and off randomly, even shift position.. I have no idea why..

I guess I should experiment when I don’t have a deadline..! 🙂
Matthew Beall
December 28, 2010 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Text extruded in Photoshop doesn’t motion blur

Arg..

Thanks for the info..

Time to re-build this comp as 2D I guess..

Working with 3D in AE is SO SLOW…. 🙁
Matthew Beall
November 22, 2010 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Render for Flash

Is there anyway to use a stencil and keep it vector..?

I have a silouhette of a lady dancing in front of a bunch of riki-tikis, I can’t figure how to stencil the riki-tikis with her silhouette and keep it vector…

-Matthew
Matthew Beall
May 27, 2010 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Bullet Point

Awesome! Thanks!

Truly you are “Great”..

-Matthew
Matthew Beall
April 6, 2010 at 9:21 pm in reply to: Animating a Puppet Tool layer

This works until I turn on the 3D layer option.. Then the layer only puppets when it is within the mesh range.. outside of that, it either doesn’t puppet or goes crazy..

-Matthew
Matthew Beall
April 6, 2010 at 2:35 pm in reply to: Animating a Puppet Tool layer

Nothing works, I guess it is a 3Dcomp/camera problem.. I can’t get it to both animate via puppet tool AND continuously rasterize the vector..

I guess I can convert everything to a shape layer and just animate the shape..

-Matthew
Matthew Beall
April 6, 2010 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Animating a Puppet Tool layer

Arg, that is aggravating..

So what is the solution? Link the puppet-layer to a null and animate the null?

-Matthew

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