Michael Munkittrick
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Many people have found success with an external program called “Flix” that is specifically designed for compression of motion video for embedding in a Flash Movie. One resourceful user noted many months ago that it offered a setting called “vectorize” that sheds the soft-edged gradients of natural video and creates some pretty clean and
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Your GIF must have an alpha channel or support an alpha. Simply being “clear” doesn’t make it transparent within your composition. In order to modify the GIF, you need only modify it in Image Ready.
As for the “censored” edge, this is pretty common along high-contrast images when your video output is compressed to a block-style format such as DV or MPEG. To remedy, reduce the depth of contrast and use a different compressor. You can render it to an uncompressed file first and then recompress in an exterior solution and get more reliable results, but as a rule AE should not be your compression tool.
Michael Munkittrick
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I’ve heard of them and they are not spoken of poorly necessarily, but considering the price I’d make absolutely certain that you’re not buying one of the thousands of the infamous eBay “duplicated” disks. Obviously, that’s illegal not to mention the fact that many of the supplemental advantages of any training media is its relationship with the creator and/or publisher and your ability to communicate with them regarding your questions. I’d venture a guess that you’ll not get a lot of support form a CD priced at $20 bucks, second hand or otherwise.
Michael Munkittrick
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Begin by creating a slightly larger comp than your master composition and use the fractal noise set to a soft cloud-like structure. Then use a directional blur set to a low number to add an artificial length to that comp. Import it as a pre-comp into your comp that requires the motion and set the displacement map effect on your image using the lightness and luminance to control the displacement. To add a bit more realism you can use a feathered mask of the original video with the applied effect over your image so that the edges of the “haze” thins as it might in nature.
There are also a few different particle effects that can be used to create a very effective heat haze, not to mention the numerous plugin solutions specifically designed to do just this effect.
Michael Munkittrick
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Did I respond to this question in another forum or was my reply removed? I was just wondering.
Michael Munkittrick
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Lower the overall frame rate substantially, raise compression ratio and select a more lossy format for rendering. There are also externally viable solutions for compression of your final render that can produce good results but they are not included as part of the After Effects toolset. Look to externally available CODECs that compress frames more efficiently and external software solutions designed specifically for frame compression and/or web delivery.
Basically, a 5 minute long file with a broadcast sized frame and a standard frame-rate is going to be pretty large to say the least if you’re attempting to render it to an uncompressed and/or low compression broadcast-ready format. If you can compress to standard DV, Sorenson2/3 or a JPEG based compressor you’ll get far better size results but there is no known way to take full-quality, full-frame video and reduce it to the sizes that I imagine that you’re expecting specifically.
Michael Munkittrick
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That’s a hoot. Yeah, Vincent would have made Palpatine menacing, conniving, dirty, manipulative and generally loathsome…but then again who knows.
Michael Munkittrick
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I didn
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I took a friend, but it’s about $9.75 a ticket at the all-digital theater.
Michael Munkittrick
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Particle Illusion is by far the leader in particle effects creation. It can make ANYTHING you can imagine. From billowing smoke from a bonfire to blood spatters to waterfalls…PI is very, very good.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
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Sony DV
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