Paul Conigliaro
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This really doesn’t surprise me. That along with Adobe suddenly deciding that D1 16:9 square pixel is 872×486 make me doubt a lot of the default measurements.
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The simplest way I can think to achieve this is to use the fractal layer as a track matte (luma) for the video layer.
If you just want it to affect the man’s face, you may need to use some masking.
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A few questions to help clear things up:
What are your video settings?
Are you using OpenGL?
Is this only on RAM preview, or does it appear in renders as well?
Is it happening just on Full Resolution? Half? Quarter? All?CS3, FCS2
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From what I’ve seen, it’s a shift going into FCP. Fortunately, the shifts have been so subtle that I can just correct them with a color corrector and be done with it. I know others have not been so lucky.
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To enable time-remapping, select your layer and go to Layer:Time:Enable Time Remapping. This will show a new property in your timeline to keyframe the timing of the layer.
Toggle-hold keyframes hold the value until another keyframe comes up. As an example, if you have two normal keyframes for opacity, 0 & 100%, the layer will slowly fade up. With toggle hold keyframes, the opacity will remain at 0% until it gets to the 100% keyframe.
To use toggle-hold keyframes, right-click on the keyframe in the timeline and select “Toggle Hold Keyframe.” I’d suggest using these on the time-remapping too, as it will easily allow you to do freeze frames & stuttering.
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I’m sure someone else will come along and post some links, but I believe the problem stems from FCP misinterpreting gamma, as well as issues with converting between RGB and YUV.
And it’s not just After Effects. I’ve exported a clip out of FCP and directly back in, only to notice slight level shifts in the scopes.
The best results I’ve achieved have involved exporting out of FCP in Uncompressed (10 or 8 bit), regardless of original codec, and rendering out of AE as Animation. Sometimes I might take those animation files into compressor for format conversion.
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Create a solid in the comp and apply the radio waves effect to that, then you can play with the various transparency modes & opacity to reveal the clips underneath.
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What I would try, though this is more manual, is duplicating the layer, shifting the position, and masking it. This will give you the bands. Beyond that, you can enable time-remapping to “stutter” the bands (since that is frequently what happens with dirty heads) and keyframe the opacity of the banded layer (toggle-hold, so they will jump between 0 and 100%)
Playing around with keyframes, positions of the maskes, etc, will go a long way to “selling” the effect.
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This comes up a lot.
After Effects is a 32-bit program. This means it can only address 3GB of memory.
You can push AE to use more under the multiprocessing section of the preferences. I believe each additional process you add can use up to 3GB each. However, this will not help with RAM previews.
(Disclaimer: I’ve been wrong before. But while the details might be off, I believe most of this post to be accurate.)
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I guess I’m a wonk, now, huh?
After scanning the keyboard shortcut list and trying nearly every keyboard combination that makes any sense, I don’t believe this shortcut exists. Now, CMND+OPT(CTRL+ALT)+Up/Down will move the layer up and down in the layer stack, so one would think that CMND+OPT+Left/Right would take care of it, right? Yeah, no.
The closest I can give you is moving keyframes: OPT/ALT+Left/Right
I guess I’m a wonk that can’t help much.
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