Mike Zimbard
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What Dave says is very true – spots of this level of complexity are tackled by big teams of designers, 2D/3D artists, etc and it shows. If you want to tackle something more simplistic in After Effects I would check out Andrew Kramer’s ink flows (videocopilot.net and look at Riot Gear) and just try building some simple comps. This is all footage that he shot and is designed for motion graphic artists. For more control you’ll definitely a dedicated fluid dynamics program like Real Flow. Good luck!
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Will do – thanks very much!
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Thanks Jeremy – very good to know. That’s a great tip on VTR exchange vs. FCP. So basically I’m just installing VTR Exchange on my laptop and setting my codec and input through the AJA interface (I’ve never used it before) – I assume it has something equivalent to “Capture Now” in FCP?
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Are you seeing jerkiness within the FCP canvas or on a broadcast monitor? I know this is the AE forum, but in addition to what Roland suggested you might also want to give us your FCP Sequence settings.
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I’ve been hoping for a puppet tool that works in 3D space ever since the original puppet tool was released. Have made a feature request for it because I feel it would an incredibly powerful tool to have. If anyone else agrees please help make it happen: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Any chance you could fake this is a 3D effect by using CC page turn on your triangle? That will give you what looks like a dimensional fold, but if the object is rotated on it’s side you will see that it is really flat.
Zaxwerks 3D warp should do exactly what you’re looking for, but it will cost you a little extra money. Not sure if Zax has demos but you may be able to try it out first and see if it does what you need. Good luck!
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Yes Gary – makes perfect sense. Thanks very much. Is it easiest to account for this delay by just marking in 1 frame earlier on your SD VTR so that your record in-point is where you want it?
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You can install this Pro Res decoder for Windows:
https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10forwindows.html
With this you’ll be able to read Pro Res files that were created on a MAC. You cannot, however, create a Pro Res file as this is only a decoder.
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Is that acknowledged in the manual? Seems like a big deal and I can’t remember ever hearing that before regarding the hardware down-converts.
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Ah – ok. Makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification. Is this not the case with an NTSC downconvert or do you have to account for the one frame with any K3 conversion?
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Very interesting. Jeremy can you explain why? I’m trying to understand why a frame would be lost. Aren’t you just going from 1920×1080 @25 fps to 768×576 @25fps? How is this different from an NTSC downconversion @ 29.97? Just curious as to the technical reason.