Pat Jaeger
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Hey Dettmer,
You forgot to attach the image! lol
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you could always use the method where you space out a number of duplicate layers close together in z-space. If there is a lot of motion, the motion blur may cover up the fact that it is not a true 3D object.
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All i can suggest is that you make sure ‘caps lock’ is not on as this can pause some functions of the program. Other than that im stumped.
Hope ive helped,
Pat Jaeger -
Have you had a look at Andrew Kramer’s ‘Earth Zoom’ tutorial? He provides the textures he used in the project file as well:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/ Hope Ive helped,
Pat Jaeger -
You can apply a blur to the edge only by creating a new adjustment layer with a Gaussian blur of 4. Then set the transfer mode to colour and you have a slightly softened edge before the key. Ive used this method countless times on DV footage and its allowed me to get a much cleaner edge than without it.
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Hey,
Im not sure about the settings as I havnt tested with your footage yet but you may get a better key if you make a tighter junk matte.
Have a look at Aharon Rabinowitz’s ‘super tight junk matte’ tutorial:https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/junk_mattes.php -
Add a rectangular Mask to your footage with the end of it on the edge where you want the text to stop and set its mode to ‘subtract’.
You could also check out some of Andrew Kramer’s free news templates found at:
https://www.videocopilot.net/blogstuff/NewsTemplates.zip Hope I’ve helped,
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What codec is used for your footage?
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if you’re willing to spend a bit of money you could buy Trapcode ‘Lux’ which adds volumetric lighting to ordinary after effects lights.
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try moving the anchor point of the layer into the middle of the ellipse. To do so, click on the ‘pan behind tool’ (left of the ellipse tool) and drag the anchor point into the middle.
Hope ive helped,
Pat Jaeger