Michael Szalapski
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Go into your composition settings and go to the advanced tab. You will see a check box for “Reserve frame rate when nested or in render queue. That may do what you want. (Or I may have misunderstood your question.)
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No problem. If you have any further questions, let us know.
Oh, and I messed up my typing on the part about the particles, I meant to say,
You may also want to use a particle effect to get some splashes. AE ships with several decent particle generators (such as CC Particle World), but Trapcode Particular is my favorite AE particle tool. I’m also a fan of Wondertouch’s ParticleIllusion, but I use the stand-alone program, not the AE plug-in that was just released.
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I’m not sure what was in that video you were trying to reference, but I’m going to take a guess here that you’ve put a mask on your layer.
With your layer selected, pressing S on your keyboard is a nice shortcut to reveal the scale property of a layer. You should be able to scale it up there.
However, if you’re trying to scale it and it appears to be shifting its position, that’s probably because of the location of the anchor point. A layer rotates and scales around its anchor point.
If you put a mask on a layer that was not centered on the anchor point, any transformations you apply (such as rotation or scaling) may have unexpected results.
When you twirl down a layer’s transform properties, you will see anchor point as an option along with scale, opacity, position, etc. You can adjust the location of the anchor point here. You will see your layer start moving but the anchor point staying still. Instead you can choose the pan behind tool (it’s the one that looks like four arrows around a square) and simply click and drag the anchor point to the center of the layer. The layer won’t appear to move, but if you have the layer’s transformation properties visible, you’ll notice the anchor point’s position changing in the timeline.
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Dave’s right. Also a quick typing of gamma or gamma shift into the search box on the forum turns up a few interesting threads including this one. Hopefully it helps.
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I remember there being a thread on here relativly recently about this and somebody posted a link to a plug-in. The plug-in’s example footage had no wiggle on the lines at all.
However, I’m having pretty good success with Effect>Stylize>Cartoon in AE. In order to smooth motion, perhaps you could use Time>Echo. Set the starting intensity to .5 and the Echo Operator to Composite in Front or Composite in Back. This should add a bit of smooth blurriness to the motion that may help smooth out your line jiggle.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Great post and I love the URL, “Don’t starve, yo!”
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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How are you applying Form to your image to get it to explode? Form should be on its own separate layer. Use the layer maps function of form to colorize it like your layer and set the functionality to “RGBA to RGBA” and your alpha information will come through.
Now, there are much better ways to blow up a part of an image.
A quick community help search for disintegrate turns up quite a few hits including this tutorial.What do you mean about the transparency? Are you still having issues with that? What logistics are you not understanding?
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Unless you have a special RAID setup, your hard drive will not be fast enough to play back a lossless/uncompressed video file. The data rate is just too high.
If you want to play it back, you’ll have to either create a file that uses some form of compression or watch it in a video editing program such as Premiere. (Editing programs create low-resolution proxies or preview versions of the footage that enable them to play back real-time).So, if you’re on a Windows machine you would want your video to be a WMV, if you’re on a Mac you’d want Quicktime using MPEG-4 or something similar. I’m not a fan of using AE to output files like this though; the Adobe Media Encoder is much better at compressing videos for final output.
As Dave LaRonde would say:
Dave’s Stock Answer #3:
Don’t use AE to compress files for final delivery. The various compressors are there only to make quick ‘n dirty files showing a project’s progress to producers, clients, the kids, etc. AE is incapable of doing multipass encoding, a crucial feature that greatly improves the image quality of H.264 and MPEG-type files in particular.Render a high-quality file from AE, and use a different application to do the compression.
Popular ones are Adobe Media Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze and Apple’s Compressor, which comes bundled with Final Cut Suite. Even compressing in Quicktime Pro is better than compressing in AE.
Making good-looking compressed files is almost as much an art as it is a science. It is NOT straightforward at all. I recommend asking a few questions at the COW’s Compression Techniques forum.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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What are you asking about; your footage, your comp, your camera?
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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Have you already shot this? (mistaaaaaake)
Is the camera moving? (MISTAAAAAAKE)If these things are true, it’s going to make it very difficult to make it look good.
There are some tutorials that will help with the shattering of the person.
This one, this one part one and part two, this one and (while I’m at it) this one wouldn’t hurt for the rest of your project.
Although, you might just play with the shatter effect; depending on what you’re going for.
A quick After Effects Community Help Search turns up these and more! You will probably want to use this search feature a lot; it’s great.However, no matter how good your shattering-person skills are, if your camera is moving and you don’t have a clean background plate, it’s going to get more difficult. You will have to create a clean background plate (grass on a football field, I’m guessing), and motion track it to the scene. You will also probably need to do some rotoscoping to put your guy into your new grass before he shatters/explodes/disintegrates.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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