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If you need to break up an already edited shot into separate layers in AE, this script is very helpful:
https://aescripts.com/magnum-the-edit-detector/-Matt
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I’ve used Synth Eyes to do this in the past, and it worked very well. It is pricey though, and does require a bit of learning. One important thing if you try that route is to work with the raw unstablilized footage. If you try to use a 3d tracker like Synth Eyes with footage that has already been stabilized in 2d, it won’t work correctly because the perspective will be slightly off and the 3d tracker won’t be able to build an accurate model. Synth Eyes has some built in 3d stabilization features that you can use to stabilize the footage and your virtual 3d camera at the same time.
-Matt
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You’re welcome!
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I can’t see your jpg, but are you familiar with pixel aspect ratio?
The quicktime player usually displays movies in square pixels,
If you were working with non-square pixels in AE, and had Pixel Aspect Ratio correction turned on,
the width of images in the render would appear to change.Here is an Adobe help article:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f3aa.htmlCheers,
-Matt
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Another thought,
instead of using the Stroke effect, you could try using the Vegas effect with one segment, animating the length property. You will probably have to animate the Mid-Point position and opacity too. Adjust the hardness to taste.-Matt
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Why not use something like CC wide time, or CC force motion blur to add a little bit of motion blur to the effect? That should give you the effect of a feathered leading edge to the line.
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More motion blur would help on a pan like this. It also feels like you might have a couple abrupt speed changes there. I can definitely feel a keyframe where it slows down at the end. You should make sure any extra keyframes in your camera path have a smooth speed curve. You might want to consider changing any middle keyframes to “rove across time” and just adjust the speed beziers at the start and finish.
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I’ve also never used the ‘Apply Image’ command in Photoshop, but what you are describing sounds very much like the “Set Channels” effect in AE. Have you tried that?
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You could make the connecting lines in a similar fashion using underscores or dashes scaled horizontally and twisting around the z axis as they rise. Per Character text animators aren’t very intuitive, but you can do some nifty stuff with them.
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You could also try to using text animators with “per character 3d” enabled. I just made a pretty good single helix by adding one text animator to my string that offset the characters’ anchor points along the z axis. Then added another text animator with shape set to “ramp up” that adjusted the position along the y, and rotation around the y.
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