[Mike Clasby]

Maybe try the new effect in AE7 “Smart Blur” (30 day demo at Adobe).

Or Remove Grain in AE6.5.

Or I think the best solution and fastest is to Re-encode the WMV’s to a larger size with Windows Media Encoder 9 which will smooth itself.
Of course you can’t get any better quality than you had in the smaller wmv’s, but if the smaller ones weren’t pixilated, then the new 720×480 shouldn’t be either.

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

It’s free.

Here’ a step by step if you haven’t use the WMV Encoder before:

Convert A File

Source File; Your smaller wmv
Output File: choose a name

File Download – Computer Playback

Video, Audio: the second choice in the dropdown, DVD quality (2 Mbps VBR) should be fine (it’s 640×480, but we’ll change to 720×40 in the properties panel below)

Next – nothing to change

Next – uncheck the box at the bottom – Begin converting when I click Finish (so we can change the 640 to 720)

Finish

Now click the Properties Tab on the tool bar.

Video Size Tab – Change the Width from 640 to 720.
Hit the Apply button.

Click the start encoding button on the toolbar.

I re-encoded a 480×360 to 720×480 and the wmv9 codec smoothes the pixelation you get from going from wmv to AVI.

I have AE 6.5 and it can use the wmv9’s fine.

[Mike Clasby]

That’s funny because I justposted moments ago on your earlier request.

Here’s my hack of an answer:

To get what you want, if I read your post correctly, we need to a two new sliders and modify some expressions.

This is modified (a yikesmikes hack) from Dan

[Mike Clasby]

That’s funny because I justposted moments ago on your earlier request.

Here’s my hack of an answer:

To get what you want, if I read your post correctly, we need to a two new sliders and modify some expressions.

This is modified (a yikesmikes hack) from Dan

[Mike Clasby]

To get what you want, if I read your post correctly, we need to a two new sliders and modify some expressions.

This is modified (a yikesmikes hack) from Dan

[Mike Clasby]

To get what you want, if I read your post correctly, we need to a two new sliders and modify some expressions.

This is modified (a yikesmikes hack) from Dan

[Mike Clasby]

If you just need to extend the clip length (the comp is longer than the clip), right click the footage in the Project Window, Interpret Footage > Main, then loop the footage enough to cover your extended time (4 loops if whole clip is %25).

If the comp is too short to handle the lengthrnrd footage, Composition > Comp Settings.

[Mike Clasby]

Great Job Glennser.

I thought of a tut that might work, same method actually, but I never enabled collapse transformations and therefore it didn’t work for me. Ah, the devil is in the details.

Anyway, Alek, if you want a step by step of Glennser’s post, Click on Aharon’s head at the top of the page and scroll down to:

Lip-Synching Characters in AE

PS – Don’t forget the collapse transformations.

[Mike Clasby]

Great Job Glennser.

I thought of a tut that might work, same method actually, but I never enabled collapse transformations and therefore it didn’t work for me. Ah, the devil is in the details.

Anyway, Alek, if you want a step by step of Glennser’s post, Click on Aharon’s head at the top of the page and scroll down to:

Lip-Synching Characters in AE

PS – Don’t forget the collapse transformations.

[Mike Clasby]

“If I put both masks on the same layer I can use the blending modes to get the effect I want, but then I cannot use the transform function to move each mask independently. ”

Do what you did above, 2 or more masks on the same layer, then Animate the Mask Shape (twirl down the Mask for the Mask Shape and set a keyframe). Double click one of the vertes (node thingy), this gives you a little transform box like in PhotoShop, then down the timeline you can resize, rotate and move.

[Mike Clasby]

Warning, yikes was 0 for 2 on first replies on his last two attempts, so take this with a grain and maybe I won’t go 0 for 3 and strike out. Either way I’m off to paint a wall and stack firewood asap. That being said…

Here’s a quote from an Adobe Support Tut:

Choose Perspective Corner Pin from the Track Type menu in the Tracker Controls palette.

The Perspective Corner Pin track type keeps track of the position of four different feature regions and transforms the shape of a targeted layer accordingly.

This is from Adobe Support. You might have to register, but it’s easy.

Keep motion in perspective
https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin

This is pretty much the same, but it’s a video tut:

Using the new Motion Tracker
https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=487&xml=aft6ttmotiontracker#

https://studio.adobe.com/us/search/main.jsp