Nate Vander plas
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COW Coins
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This might be possible for a somewhat skilled person. Basically, if you subtract the camera move, or at least limit it to a pan this effect becomes much easier. Shoot your frozen people in front of a green screen and insert them into the composition in proper perspective in the scene. You will then either have to shoot your walking guy in front of the green screen as well or do a lot of roto work. Once you have the elements put them in front and behind your main guy to make them look 3D. If you panned you will have to motion track the footage so that people don’t float or slide around. Basically, unless you nail the lighting, keying, tracking, and compositing this won’t be very impressive.
Another alternative is to have people stand still and keep the camera moving fast enough to avoid noticing this (usually obvious) fact. You might even combine the two.
Bottom line, if you’re not a pro with lots of time and money, try something simpler. -
I believe Avid’s widescreen dimensions are 853 x 480, which is unique to Avid and frankly rather annoying.
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Seems like once you’ve done a project (as long as it isn’t huge) it won’t take horribly long to recreate it. Especially if you do the whole keyframe copy-paste idea mentioned above.
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I’m not sure I understand you completely, but if you’re having major problems with the mirror effect maybe the best option is to simply duplicate your layer you want mirrored and then adjust the horizontal scale to the negatives (in other words, flip it around). Then position it where you want it, mask it if necessary, and parent it to your original layer.
If you have any other questions please ask- I’m not sure if I answered your question or not. -
I don’t think there are any tutorials on simply animating a mask, but I recommend watching all the tutorials on this site. Some of them might show you how as part of a bigger thing. Basically in your tools pallette there is a “pen tool” with which you can draw a mask with as many vertices as you want. If you drag while you click you can make them curvy. Then, to animate it just find the property “mask shape” and set keyframes, moving the mask where you want it when.
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Do you mean you want your text to look like it’s on the ground or a wall (or some other flat object)? If so, make the text layer 3D and then rotate it in 3D space to look like it’s on the object. A drop shadow can help too.
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Look at this.
projector effect thread -
Search for projector on this forum- there’s lots of stuff out there I think.
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I don’t think I’ve ever said this on this forum before, but lol! That was so random yikesmikes.
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The screen doesn’t have to turn white from the rays. You can fake it with a white solid- animate a mask on it to look like it’s the rays.