[Neil Redman]

Thank you so much that did it! I just had to change the extension to .mov and it worked!

[Neil Redman]

Hey,
thanks for the help guys I created a 32kHz preset now and it works. I still get the impression that the footage is slightly squished together, however if I set it to anamorphic it goes even more to the other extreme so thats definetely not that. But its good enough for the purpose I need it for.

Just out of curiosity though is there any better way to figure out the format on DV tape lake a software that can find that out or is it the easiest thing to do, just to go through the FCP presets and see what will work?

[Neil Redman]

Hey, thanks you, but I already tried all that in all variations. I’m using a 50mm preset camera and all the other objects/layers respond just fine to it. I guess it has something to do how that whole Live Photoshop 3D effect is set up, since you are basically controlling a 2D layer over a 3D null object over all kinds of expressions and the values don’t seem to fit seamlessly together with the position values of other objects.

However the 3D object I wanted to use wasn’t anything too complex, more like an sphere like object. So I ended up creating a object with a particle system in AFX that resembles that look very closely and now I can position it perfectly in 3D space.

– Neil

[Neil Redman]

Hi, thanks for the help. Unfortunately it still doesn’t really work the way I want it.

“Did you set the 3d object to use the AE camera in the effects window? If that doesn’t work then maybe delete the camera in the 3d object’s comp.”
Yes, I did that and I tried it with deleting the 3d object’s camera but that didn’t work.

The parenting to the null helps at least somehow with the positioning. I found now that I can only see the object when I set the position of the control layer exactly to the Point of Interest of the camera. However the problem is that when I move the null object by only 1 pixel in any direction the object jumps almost from site of the canvas to the other side. So it appears impossible to positioning it with my existing 3D layers, so that when the camera flies by it, it is only visible for 1 or 2 frames before it exists the view. So it basically behaves completely to the camera than my other 3d layers do. And when I set the position of the control layer to the position of a 3d layer that is seen by the camera, then my 3D object want be in view.

I hope that is understandable. Is there any solution to this problem? I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to prerender it to a 2d layer so that I get realistic transformations as the camera passes it, but I fear that that is what I have to do.

Thanks Neil