Paolo Ciccone
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Sorry if this sounds obvious but have you adjusted the white balance? Is the blue tint visible when shooting indoor or outdoor?
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Hey, thank you for the feedback about the demo reel. Much appreciated.
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Hey Gary, thank you for the “heads-up”. I fixed it. The HD-100 and Hd-200 use two different color matrices so you cannot interchange the formats. Look in the TrueColor section and use the configuration shown in Part 3.
Best.
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The workflow goes like this:
– Shoot the footage.
– Import the footage into a 3D tracking software. Syntheyes works wonderfully: https://www.ssontech.com/index.html
– Once Syntheyes solves the scene and creates the 3D trackers you need to export the data to a 3D modeling software. I use Blender and it works perfectly (https://www.blender.org)
– In Blender you open the exported scene which creates an animation with the geometry corresponding to the real-life scene. Since this is accurate, every object that you place in it will track with the real life camera.
– Add some 3D text, see my “Blender Survival Guide – part 3” to learn how. The 3D text now fits the scene.
– Light the scene to match the original footage, add some Ambient Occlusion to the text for added realism.
– Render the scene as a series of frames (PNG/TIFF) with an alpha channel.
– Import the original footage and the rendered one in After Effects, compose it and render it.Sound like I’m gonna have to make a tutorial 🙂 After I’m done with the Survival Guide…
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Paolo Ciccone
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You can consider Lux Render. Lux is a physically-based, un-biased renderer that is Open Source and produces stunning results. It also allows you to manipulate the light sources after the rendering and update the scene in real time. It has a C4D plugin.
See https://www.luxrender.net/v/exporters
Good luck.
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Paolo Ciccone
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I forgot that there is another software that is pretty much a must-have if you do animations: djv.
This is a OSS player that allows you to playback image sequences like there were movie clips.
Once you have it running, go to the preferences, click on the File IO tab and select QuickTime/Save. Set the codec to JPEG lossless and then drag-and-drop the first frame in your animation into the djv window. From the menu select File/Save, give the name with the .mov extension and you’re done.DJV is at https://djv.sourceforge.net/
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Don’t know about PS but FCP doesn’t handle sequences of images. You can use Blender’s sequence editor to do the same.
If you’re not familiar with Blender, it’s a 3D modeling/animation software. It’s Open Source and you can download it from https://www.blender.org
Search YouTube for tutorials on how to turn a image sequence to a clip.—
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If you have QuickTime Pro you can load all the frames as a sequence of images, and then export the clips as a QT movie with the codec of your choice. You then load the clip in FCP.
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Glad to help. BTW, if you want to use TrueColor be sure to get teh version that is at my website, it’s the latest.
Good luck.
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Paolo Ciccone
Pret-A-3D
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