Michael Zoppo
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Well, AE’s tracker is one of its weaker points, its not horrible, but its not as good as it could be. I (MEANING JUST ME) believe that combustion has a better tracker, and whats good about it is if your confused with working in combustions interface you can just export the tracking data and bring it into AE. But if you really want to get away from pixel tracking and put in some money (and a good amount of it) Go for Mocha. There should be a link to mocha somehwere on the left of this very page on a banner. It is a planar tracker and works VERY WELL.
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Well what you can do is take the footage your editing and do whatever your gonna do to it, render the final copy and render the original copy, in after effects put a mask over the final copy and slide it off screen to reveal the original copy, or vice-versa. I figure this is the easiest way in terms of rendering time and simplicity.
MIkey
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No, its very possible with a dark image, for instance take a black solid and resize it so its smaller than your comp window, and choose to view only the alpha, the black solid will show up clear as day white. If your exporting correctly which i believe you are, (i dont know all the settings) than there must be some opaque image in the bg. Thats my 2 cents.
Search around more in the forums and see if you can find anything.
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Well if you have photoshop, make a template for all the pictures (maybe a block solid with rounded rectangular blocks cut out) place it over each picture, save it, import it into AE, then use a mask(s) to animate the blocks in and out.
Hope this is what you were looking for.
mikey
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If I have been using my terms wrong, (which i do quite often) then yes, I would like the camera to track through the wall.
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Windows XP is great, I agree, but as far as protection against corruption and viruses and just overall crashing I would have to say the mac has it beat by a long shot. Although most studios I have heard of use Windows for After Effects because they believe it runs smoother, and it just may be so. But another thing that really turns me away from Microsoft is the company itself, Im not gonna shop at a company I dont trust. And Microsft is certainly not on my list, most of there campaigns are just for the purpose of money, and I know they are suppose to be trying to make money but everything they make just falls apart. Take for example the xbox, its horrible and so is the 360 they always crash and cause problems and the customer service is horrible where as if you look at a company like Nintendo, they are a people person company and have a reliable machine and free internet, where as microsoft charges the user which is ridiculous. But im ranting so I shall stop. I would have to say that Mac has more pros vs cons , then microsoft does.
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Just click the 3d check box and place it behind the chess board in z-space.
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haha, well dont I feel stupid, as far as i know for that theres two types of that effect i think, one is for the split channel with the crappy red and blue glasses which can be done, (might want to check the manual online) and as for the imax theatre glasses, Im not sure how they do that one, there was an interesting article in the local newspaper about how they do it but I was to lazy to read it, i’ll check and see what I can find out
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Well if by 3d movies you mean 3d animation, then no , after effects is not capable of anything that is of the “modeling animation” or anything like that, Pro Invigorator is a plug in that allows for some 3d modeling, but still your not gonna get anything extremely intense with after effects. You can turn layers on 3d switches and rotate them in 3d space but you can not build anthing with polygons or sub-d surfaces in after effects. Hope this has been some sort of help to your question.
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this is a common problem I have run into a lot also. There is purge feature in the secret menu of after effects you can get to it by holding down “shift” and going “After Effects”>preferences>let go of shift>And go to the scroll down tab and you should see secret, i would put in about 15 or 30, but this does not always work, your best bet would be to shut down the computer and restart it. This usually works for me.