Mike Derk
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Good to know. Thanks.
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I don’t have the camera sitting here so I can’t double-check how I shot it. (Helpful, I know.) So all I can do is tell you what the capture settings were when I captured the footage.
I know the 300dpi wasn’t necessary. The thing is that it was working, so I didn’t want to mess with it.
More odd: the pictures only came out right with square pixels.
Anyway, the project is done. Nice to know that I didn’t do anything right!
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For reasons that are unclear to me, if I remade the images at 8×4.5 inches, 300dpi and reimported them, they worked just fine.
Is it possible that the problems I was having had nothing to do with the images themselves, but because I was editing them in PS *after* I’d put them into the sequence? Recreating and reimporting them got around that and solved the problem?
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Cancel that. I had the aspect ratio (under the Motion tab) set to 9 — a left over fix I was trying.
When I set it back to 0, and check the “anamorphic” box in the sequence settings panel, the photo looks too wide…
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I can add this: if I check the anamorphic checkbox, the footage gets stretched horizontally.
The files I’m importing from PS (with square pixels) look right.
I can only get one of the two things to “behave” the way I want it to. I think the workaround is to tinker with the photos, since they’re a minimal part of the video.
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All I can tell you is that the capture preset is Anamorphic, and the canvas is clearly 4:3.
I can see the dark gray/light gray checkerboard behind my footage at the top and bottom.
The footage looks right. It’s not pinched or stretched, but it doesn’t cover the whole canvas either.
So, I guess this isn’t actually anamorphic. What would you call it?
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Have you tried fooling around with Mr. Mercury?
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Aharon has made a podcast about Weather Replacement — the second part talks about rain on the lens.
There’s also a tutorial at videocopilot about creating rain.
I doubt the entire answer is going to be in there, since you also need to create the blood spurt, but you will probably find some helpful things.
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Aharon has a tutorial on “animating a signature” (look in the podcasts area) that might be useful.
I’ve also seen a video tutorial about growing vines. I can’t find it right now, but it uses “Stroke” to reveal an image. Essentially, you import the entire image, cover it, and then reveal it using masks.
Hopefully someone else will be able to point you to it.
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Aharon has a tutorial on “animating a signature” (look in the podcasts area) that might be useful.
I’ve also seen a video tutorial about growing vines. I can’t find it right now, but it uses “Stroke” to reveal an image. Essentially, you import the entire image, cover it, and then reveal it using masks.
Hopefully someone else will be able to point you to it.