Nicholas Toth
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Sounds like some motion tracking, particle effects, and most imporantly, referencing your AE manual!
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Make sure all of your 3d pre-comps are BELOW any regular 3d layers —- and be careful of adjustment layers within comped 3d layers — they break things up.
I’m sure there are more quirks, but those are some I’ve personally run into.
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YO RENDERNYC!
I test drove the new motion today. Its nice, they finally have a 3d system that includes standard particle generator (as in the particles are translated in 3d space and react to the new cameras — think particular), and some really nice motion tracking and stabilizing options. Specifically I was impressed with the image stabilization — its really really easy to use, and after you solve for a shot its very quick to make your decision on how much stabilization you want. I pried to see if you could take tracking data and copy it to the clipboard, (then atleast you could use motion as an option to track a shot if AE is doing a garbage job) but the option was unavailable.
The problem that really chapped my backside was there is no DOF option in the new camera system, and I asked about pulling a depth map, and nobody knew. They were running them on the Quad 3.0’s (not the octos) and it it was smoking.
The whole new final cut suite is pretty neat, but adobe’s studio is still more seamless and powerful in my mind. And if something is easier to make in motion, you can listerally just import it as a quicktime into AE (the project file….).
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I’m at NAB, and the stupid ‘ high speed internet ‘ connection is way to slow. Its crawling! But it is in fact downloading, so as far as I can see it is working. I hope to get to take it for a test drive tomorrow, at the Adobe booth — hopefully on an octo-mac.
I’ll ftp some pictures I take tomorrow, and throw them up for you guys this week. There’s a sweet banner promoting FCP studio 2 in front of the building…
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can’t wait to see the public beta version of AE CS3!
https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/
when is it rumored to go up? this week?
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Use still — and output your motion vectors to Reelsmart — and apply motion blur in post.
Those are the best results that I have gotten.
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Seems like motion is getting better, but potatoe potato its all about the artist.
Certain things like its FCP integration is AWESOME, and utilities like AUTOMOTION allow you to rip right through lower thirds and generic bulk text. Its definately progressed since the first version, which looking back was awful.
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AHHHHH!
The same thing happened on my Macbook Slow — I wound up having to actually wipe the windows end, then re-install. It kind of happens out of nowhere.
Does your screen turn blue? If you get the blue screen make sure all of your drivers are up to date — I’ve had that happen frequently also —-
Lastly, if it comes down to it, try a windows repair install.
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Dang it.
Yes we have that, but I was just curious to why my frames vanished when I re-outputted vs. them being read, skipped, and the missing frames replaced.
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And use the free unmult plug-in by Red Giant software! Or a different blending mode!