Pat Jaeger
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have you changed it into a 3D layer? Also, check the ‘collapse transformations’ button in the timeline, its next to the ‘quality’ checkbox.
hope this helps,
Pat Jaeger -
are you talking about the loop when RAM previews are played? If so, just click the button next to the RAM preview button to change the way it plays back.
hope ive helped,
Pat Jaeger -
hey Jim,
If you want you can just continue clicking the analyse one frame forward button in the tracker controls, or to speed it up you can click the analyse forward button and stop it before it reaches the end of the part that needs tracking and then analyse it frame by frame.
hope what i said makes sense :p
Pat Jaeger -
Hi,
To start with, have you lit your greenscreen and subject so that there is a consistent colour and less green spill on the subject? If not search google for “greenscreen lighting” or similar. Also, what are you filming with? If you are filming with DV or HDV it will be a lot harder to get a good key but it is still possible.
check out https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=50 for help with keying, also try this if you have DV/HDV footage, make a new adjustment layer and put it above your footage and apply a gaussian blur of 4 to it. then set the transfer mode to color. this will smooth out the colour transition so that you will hopefully get a cleaner key. you may also need to scale your footage up to 101% after applying the blur as it also blurs out the edge of the frame.
hope ive helped,
Pat Jaeger -
cool, thanks a lot for that, ill have a look at it 🙂
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if the shorts are the only really dark thing in the shot you could make a matte and then set a skin coloured layer to ‘luma inverted matte’ in the track matte menu.
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You may have to remove the pulldown from the footage seeing as you have repeated frames every so often. right click on the footage and go interpret>main and click guess 3:2 pulldown while also setting the frame rate to 24p.
Hope this helps,
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Ryan Wieber has a method of creating contact flashes when lightsabers collide which might work perfectly for a camera flash as well. Go to:
https://www.ryan-w.com/ryan-w/tutorials_sabers2.html and follow the steps in the ‘contact flashes’ section
Pat Jaeger
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you do know that you can get after efftecs to use all 16GB of your RAM by enabling multiprocessing dont you? If not then you can set after effects to use a certain amount of RAM per core (usually 2GB per core i think) and it will render multiple frames simultaneously.
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Since you’re using dv, try applying an adjustment layer above your footage (before the key) with a gaussian blur of 4, then set the layers transfer mode to colour. This has helped me to get much nicer keys as it helps to clean up the jaggy edges of DV.
Hopefully it will also help you,
Pat jaeger