Michael Szalapski
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If you just need a still image, how about just doing a screen grab? Print Screen button on a PC and then just go into Photoshop and paste it.
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For those gritty backgrounds…use a couple gritty textures.
That’s it.
Many stock photography places have whole collections dedicated to gritty textures. Lay one or two over a colored solid and play with blending modes and opacities and BAM! You’ll have a gritty background.
Playing around with various color correction and distortion effects coupled with position and scale animations on those layers is also quite fun.The blotches of paint are just that, blotches of paint. Digital Juice’s Compositor’s Toolkit has some stock footage of paint splattering in case you don’t have the facilities to film it yourself. But often all that’s needed is a still shot and you just animate some masks on it.
As far as plug-ins go, I love Knoll Light Factory Pro from Red Giant Software. Lens flares, if used incorrectly, look like poop – no matter how awesome of a plug-in you’ve got. But when I’m ready to go for a lens flare, this one’s amazing. (Now that they’ve added the script on their website for placing the flares in 3d space, controlled by AE’s 3d lights, it’s even better! The flares go behind objects correctly…multiple objects…! Sorry, I’m excited about it.)
– The Great Szalam
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Read the documents at the links that Todd posted for you earlier. You will find the answers to most, if not all, of your questions there.
Also you will learn many other things that will be useful to you later on, especially if you end up with a big client that cares about their logo/color, etc.– The Great Szalam
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I agree completely with Dave on all counts.
Is there a reason you wouldn’t do all of your compositing in AE since that’s what it’s for?– The Great Szalam
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You could make a bunch of movies in AE and tie them all together in your DVD creating program. (Encore, etc.)
You’d make the main movie of all your pictures flowing in, then make transition movies for each individual picture into and out of the large version. And, of course a still frame as a picture for each instance of a large version (which would essentially be a menu).
There are a zillion different ways to create the videos in AE depending on what look you wanted; from basic position keyframing to using Particular or Card Wipe, the possibilities are endless.However, building so many different individual videos and tying them all together in Encore would be really tedious. It will be much faster to do it in Flash as Bogie suggested.
Although, depending on how little time you have and since you obviously don’t know Flash (or AE), might I suggest hiring somebody who knows how to do it? AE and Flash are both very powerful programs, which means neither of them is easy to learn in a hurry.
– The Great Szalam
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You don’t need to “key” the person out; it’s a still picture. Unless you filmed them on a chroma screen it’d be easier to just trace them with a mask. (Also known as rotoscoping). Heck, even if you did shoot them on a chroma screen, considering the style you’re going for, using a mask will still be the better option.
– The Great Szalam
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What version of Windows are you running?
What version of AE are you running?
Do you have the latest updates to AE?
Do you have the latest driver for your graphics card?
Do you have any OpenGL settings on such as rendering with the OpenGL renderer?– The Great Szalam
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I’m not sure what options Vegas gives you, because I don’t use Vegas. A lossless image sequence like Targa at high quality works. Or you could go with Quicktime with the PNG codec.
Interframe compression on footage yields unexpected results. Sometimes it works fine; other times it does not. When I first started playing with HD on AE a few years ago; I noticed AE moving a lot faster (and I mean a LOT faster) when I transcoded my footage from HDV (MPEG-2) into a different format.
– The Great Szalam
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This is likely due to the pixel aspect ratio in which you’re working. Try adjusting the properties of your layer (select it in the timeline and hit ctrl+shift+Y) and check what ratio it’s in. Try changing it to square pixels.
– The Great Szalam
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Do you have multiprocessing turned on in your preferences? If so, turn it off; you don\\\’t have enough RAM for it.
– The Great Szalam
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