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[ugg the wanderer]
is there a way to set/shift comp colors so that they’re broadcast safe? how reliable is the effect plugin Broadcast Colors? “
Not reliable at all. Only adding an extra “Levels” effect will give you enough headroom to adjust your colors and still maintain the fidelity of the original. “Broadcast Colors” will diminisch colors in areas/ ranges it should leave untouched.
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[Dave LaRonde] “Brian Maffitt of Total Training once made the comment that he didn’t know why anybody would go out and buy backgrounds any more… and he was talking about AE 5.0.”
Well, I wouldn’t concur with this assesment. Unless you happen to have an excessive footage library or, like me, access to 3D programs, there are many reasons for buying backgrounds or parts of them. The same goes if you use AE standard tools only – after quite a short while all your BGs tend to look rather samey, no matter how much you tweak it. Along those lines Fractal Noise isn’t the greatest and best tool for this. One of the main reasons why people use instant backdrops is the lack of time for creating (and rendering) custom ones. Granted, there’s always the danger of overusing certain themes, but as long as the stuff is of such good quality like e.g. some from DigitalJuice there is no good argument against using them even if you are proficient enough in AE and could build them yourself.
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Like the others said there is a difference between Java and JavaScript, so make sure you figure that out first. If you can find a JavaScript course, make sure it is generic enough and especially explains some mathematical stuff as well as the more useful classes, objects and methods related to that math and strings. Unfortunately there is a great misconception out there that JavaScript is used on the web only and 90% of all courses will only teach you things like creating buttons and other web fancies. That’s not going to help you much.
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Like the others said there is a difference between Java and JavaScript, so make sure you figure that out first. If you can find a JavaScript course, make sure it is generic enough and especially explains some mathematical stuff as well as the more useful classes, objects and methods related to that math and strings. Unfortunately there is a great misconception out there that JavaScript is used on the web only and 90% of all courses will only teach you things like creating buttons and other web fancies. That’s not going to help you much.
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I would have to agree with Dan here. This is heavy 3D math if you use expressions and far to convoluted. Either try CC Cylinder with a grid as texture or use Trapcode’s 3D Stroke with its repeater function to create your structures. Both tools use AE’s camera and it shouldn’t be too difficult to line them up with your footage. Just make sure you are working in square pixel comps.
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I would have to agree with Dan here. This is heavy 3D math if you use expressions and far to convoluted. Either try CC Cylinder with a grid as texture or use Trapcode’s 3D Stroke with its repeater function to create your structures. Both tools use AE’s camera and it shouldn’t be too difficult to line them up with your footage. Just make sure you are working in square pixel comps.
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Only orientation will accept arrays, normal rotation is split to separate channels so you will need to use rotationX, rotationY and rotationZ and create separate values for them.
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You need to re-create the auto orient behavior using a simple expression. Add this to the orientation parameter:
my_orient=lookAt(position,thisComp.layer(“Camera”).position)
X=orientation[0];
Y=my_orient[1];
Z=orientation[2];[X,Y,Z]
You may need to add an angular value to compensate for flipping.
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You need to re-create the auto orient behavior using a simple expression. Add this to the orientation parameter:
my_orient=lookAt(position,thisComp.layer(“Camera”).position)
X=orientation[0];
Y=my_orient[1];
Z=orientation[2];[X,Y,Z]
You may need to add an angular value to compensate for flipping.
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Nope, since each version has a different feature set and hence stores different data in its project file. Anyway, I wouldn’t touch v6 if it was gold – it was the worst version in a long time and since the upgrade to 6.5 is only 99 $ or something like that, there’s not much point to sticking to 6.
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