[Moog Gravett]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

If I’m reading that right, that would create extra pixels all around the ‘blobs’? Which is not really what I need.

I’ve attached a picture to help illustrate,

Object A and Object B travel towards each other. They are separate items with alpha channels.
When they get within ‘x’ pixels of each other, I want them to have a bridge pop in on the next frame. No extra pixels can be around the rest of the objects. Currently I’m animating a number of masks between a number of objects, which is less than ideal 🙂

I know this sounds rather picky, but it’s really the only way my specific set up will work.

Hope there’s some thoughts.

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[Moog Gravett]

oooh – that’s going to be worth a look. Cheers 🙂

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[Moog Gravett]

Thanks again for all input. Definitely looks like a case of hard lesson learned. 🙁

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[Moog Gravett]

Thanks mate,

yeah, I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that it’s learning the hard way.

thanks to all for input

moog

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[Moog Gravett]

Cheers for the heads up Dave, I thought as much too, the trouble is I’m creating looping videos of people, so all my keyframes are really precise so I can’t very easily identify matching frames between rates. Also, the keyframes may have many keyframes in a 10 frame range (for example) so I wonder how to scale those as one unit but keep that in ratio with the footage.

Do you happen to know a mathematical solution at all?

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[Moog Gravett]

Hi Matthew,

cheers for the idea, however, I’ve tried that already, but what happens is the keyframes I’ve placed align with different points in the video.

any other thoughts are most welcome.

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[Moog Gravett]

Thanks, I’ll have a play with that.

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[Moog Gravett]

Hi Dave,

I couldn’t get it to work that way either and thought it might be easier with shape objects. But if thers a way round with text layers and masked solids etc… I could make that work.

Got any tips?

M

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[Moog Gravett]

Just thought I’d let any future people checking this thread that I worked out what my particular problem was.

I was trying to use a video file as an environment map. It didn’t seem to like that so i just selected a frame and made it a freeze frame. All seems fine now.

Moog

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[Moog Gravett]

I have multiprocessing off already, but I need to have raytracing on to do the extrusion don’t i?

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