Mikey Bouchereau
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Ok since your footage is not keyable. You need to duplicate it. So you have 2 layers of the exact same thing. Then on the top layer you want to roto/mask out the background area that you don’t want. Essentially you are seperating the element you want something to happen behind by making it a seperate layer. (tip even though you’ve duplicates your layer turn off the bottom layer for bow so you can see how the mask works.) now put you composited element between the 2 background layers Now you have your effect behind a person or object. To have it it on top you add another layer.
Basically you should have a project that has a layer structure like this:
effect (on top of everything)
footage (part of it masked)
effect (showing though the masked area)
footage (so you still have a background)hopefully that helps.
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Posted from my iPhone, so please for give any typos or run on sentences.Mikey B!
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Every once in a while I will use motion to make a fly through slideshow. Where at the pictures are spaced out in 3D space and I use the camera to fly through all the photos. You can do this by making a quicktime movie out of your still images. Just make sure that the movie is playing each photo for 1 frame each. You do that by making sure that you turn off Play Frames in the emitter tab. You also want to make sure your random start frame is turned on. Also so you dont get any repeated images turn your birth rate to 0 and your initial number to the number of photos you have. And then make the life of the particles length of the project so they dont turn off. Kind of like this but more camera moves to show off each photo. If you have questions I may post an example.
https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae50_e.html
Mikey B!
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Yes Zak I saw your comment. Thank you so much for it. I’ve been teaching these programs in person for years but I have never done any sort of tutorial video, so I am a bit self conscious about it.
Noah, yeah I though it was really ironic to create this type of commercial with all apple products. But thats how things work right. Its a job and we use what tools we have to get it done.
Mikey B!
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I would look at Primatte Keyer Pro. I recently purchased it. Totally amazing! It blows keylight out of the water. It was able to fix stuff I used to have to roto. Its totally worth a look.
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/primatte-keyer-pro/
Mikey B!
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Here ya go I just made you a compressor Droplet, I have FCS 3 so I am not sure if it will work with early versions. These are the specs for the droplet
Name: 5.1 Surround 720 h264
Description: Do not use on aspects other than 16×9 or it will will cause picture distortion. This will mimic the 720p Apple Trailer.
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 2.69 GB/hour of source
Audio EncoderAAC, 5.1 (C L R Ls Rs LFE), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 1280
Height: 720
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls On:Retiming: (Better) Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Better (Motion Adaptive)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: ProgressiveCodec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Key frame interval: 45
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 6.418 (Mbps)
Fast Start: onCompressed header
requires QuickTime 3 Minimum310_5.1surround720h264.app.zip
Mikey B!
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Hey Randy,
A trick that I do when I need to create Anamorphic templates is, to open it from the master templates and load it in the viewer, the drag it from the viewer to your project in your browser, when in your browser make sure you are in list view and look for the column called anamorphic and add a check to your template now when you double click on the file it will be anamorphic.
Hope that Helps
Mikey B!
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Ah Yeah, I guess I assumed that Illustrator would keep blacks black even if it did the conversion but yeah, Motion and the rest of the Apple apps only work in RGB.
Mikey B!
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No I agree, I’ve already update my laptop to Snow Leopard, I am waiting on my Mac Pro until Core Melt and Noise Industries gets the Snow Leopard and AE Quartz Composer bug fixed. This is why I am so interested in the 4870 on my 1st Gen Mac Pro. Do you know if the MXO2 LE with Max Technology will have the same benefits as the CompressHD, the Web Site just links to the CompressHD page when you choose the with Max icon.
Mike B!
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It’s a CMYK to RGB conversion issue. Open the logo in Illustrator then go to File>Document Color Mode>RGB Color Then resave your logo and then drop it in motion, now the black will be black. This has been an issue with all of apple’s video apps when converting CMYK to RGB. Hope that help!
Mikey B!
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Mark I understand its purpose, but you said: “Better Motion performance and faster exports… what a beautiful concept.” How does the compressHD offer better motion performance other than faster h.264 encodes. Or am I reading to much into the comment? In my mind I was hoping this would be like motion taking advantage of a second GPU of sorts.