[Paul Bertham]

maybe you have a talk to an underwater photographer or filmer before you start shooing right away just considering the background.

in water, fundamentals of physics are changing, may it be gravity facts but be prepared for opto-electronical facts (within your camera) which have to be considered by filming with a camera for every inch you move underwater.

same rules as for working out of water: LIGHT!
a good weight of battery operated scuba-lights would do if the budget does not allow hiring expensive waterproof underwater lights.
daylight that breaks trough the water surface changes with every inch of depth you dive.

a good consideration would be using an outoor pool (or indoor) at night, just with the underwater lights on – as long as you can finish your shooting until daybreak.

in the end, ingesting/converting your footage in the highest, lossless format you can achive, is a good way to go.
study some video codecs which could help you having nice results when it comes to key out your footage, repectivelz color correcting you footage, to keep all the details and a sharp crisp image.

if i’d work with after effects for the entire shot, i’d probably do a nice rough color correction to the footage to get rid of unwanted color information, precompose it and then keying. its a non destructive process, you alwys can use the matte of your precomp and add it to your original footage if it works better. AE gives you some powerful tools, but consider if you like to try to work in 16 bit or higher (depending on your ingest/image conversion), its a bit of experimenting.
But as i’ve mentioned, try to find the right codec with good chroma sampling and use AE. It comes with color finesse, be shure updating to the latest plugin version, and i’m shure you’ll get some good results.

however, good luck mate

[Paul Bertham]

Hi Darby,

both suggestions are’nt really a workaround whenever it comes working with audio in after effects, ok fair to say that AE is a pure compositing tool, but i’m asking myself – already for years now – why the hell is any movie playing back flawlessly if i double click it in the project window to open the player, and why it always comes to RAM previewing since the clip is in the comp timeline without a single filter added?

did the adobe dev guys forgot something or is it a task which is impossible to achieve?

don’t know how much request i already sent to them (Adobe) regarding this topic.

cheers

[Paul Bertham]

Hi,

sorry for my rants. i’m somehow confused with final cut pro these days with every project i do. i’m relied to a damn properly working NLE otherwise i will quit my job as an editor forever.

i can’t stand Apples poor support on Pro Applications anymore.

we’ve had media100i and it was somehow frustrating to work with in the last years, so i’m afraid having all the limitations and hassles again.

i have an octa intel mac with kona LHe and i will give it a try with a Demo first of Media100 SD/HD Suite.

thank you for your replies.

Paul

[Paul Bertham]

I NEED O N E APPLICATION! OK!???

nothing less, nothing more!

got it?

[Paul Bertham]

ok guys, i’ve did not sleep since october, so sorry that i’ve sounded like a guy who escaped from the psychatric clinic…

just kidding.

long story short: i went back to shooting location in europe with a “wheel-rig” completely reshooting the scene.

never overvalue computers against manuals skills 😉

thanks for your tireless efforts.

cheers

[Paul Bertham]

while you hold shit and alt key together

😉 if deadlines short, i bet everyone will have to hold everything together as much as possible 😉

btw. does this “secret” option still exists in CS4?

cheers

[Paul Bertham]

most recent version is 9.0.1
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4085

try auto update or download package from link above.

[Paul Bertham]

AE CS4 does not include CC plugs nor the Mocha tracker due to 3rd party license regulations. if you enter a valid license for AE all plugins will then appear.

[Paul Bertham]

do you have the most recent AE update?

you could try running a disk permission repair via MAC OS disk utility.

another solution is to recreate AEs preference file.
shut down after effects and find the preference file Adobe After Effects 8.0 Prefs.txt in the directory
users/user name/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/8.0/

just replace the .txt extension with .OLD so you will keep this existing pref because if AE restarts it then writes a new preference file and intializes (reset) the software.
if this was not the way to solve your problem you then can trash the newly created prefs and rename the .OLD back to .txt

this could might also be a possible solution
https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79a5.html

and here on improving performace
https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WSF13D6BED-C53B-408a-B2D6-C8B4205D4FB7.html

but don’t expect miracles coz OSX isn’t 64Bit (still).

[Paul Bertham]

it has nothing to do with time lapse or even in a time lapse manner…

call it morphing, transformation, whatever.

track your motion of the grape, hand, add the tracker information to a null object, find a raisin image or equivalent footage, parent it to the null, position the image layer well and mask it out to fit into your composition and animate the mask along to movement.

ou can also play with mattes parented to the tracker null, keeps you away from keyframing masks.