[Peter Litwinowicz]

Todd,

To animate the color independently per-spline as the morph transitions from one image to another you need to turn off “Use Auto Color %” for each spline and then animate the Color Amt for each spline.

There is an explanation of this (with picture), in the RE:Flex manual, located in the Help/REVisionEffects/REFlexManual subdirectory of combustion. THere is also an example of this int the REFlexCombustionTutorial directory that’s in Help/REVisionEffects. The sample combustion workspaces in that directory are not really tutorials so much as sample workspaces set up so you can peruse them after they’ve been set up.

Hope this helps,
Pete LItwinowicz
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Peter Litwinowicz]

You are NOT a total moron.

However, if you had clicked on the “Show More.>>” link under the “What’s New in 3.2.4” and the clicked on “Show Complete History” link, you would have found this:

Version: 3.0 – March 25, 2004
Because we’ve added new options in version 3.0 you’ll see that we’ve renamed the plugin, and that it will show up in the applications as “RSMB 3.x” and “RSMB Pro 3.x.” That way, your old projects will still run and load (using pre-3.0 RSMB).

So you are seeing the missing reference because version 2.0 is really a different plugin than 3.0 as far as AE is concerned. Why? We completely changed how the tracking works and wanted old customers to get the exact same results when they loaded old projects. The best way to do that was to allow 2.0 and 3.0 to co-exist… and the only way to do that was to make separate plugins.

How to fix? Well, you can’t use 2.0 in AE CS3 on an Intel Mac, because 2.0 doesn’t support Intel. The answer is to apply 3.0 to your comp, copy the settings from the 2.0 instance (even though the 2.0 plugin is missing, you can still see the settings in the Effects Controls Window), and remove the 2.0 instance of the plugin.
Pete
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Peter Litwinowicz]

You are NOT a total moron.

However, if you had clicked on the “Show More.>>” link under the “What’s New in 3.2.4” and the clicked on “Show Complete History” link, you would have found this:

Version: 3.0 – March 25, 2004
Because we’ve added new options in version 3.0 you’ll see that we’ve renamed the plugin, and that it will show up in the applications as “RSMB 3.x” and “RSMB Pro 3.x.” That way, your old projects will still run and load (using pre-3.0 RSMB).

So you are seeing the missing reference because version 2.0 is really a different plugin than 3.0 as far as AE is concerned. Why? We completely changed how the tracking works and wanted old customers to get the exact same results when they loaded old projects. The best way to do that was to allow 2.0 and 3.0 to co-exist… and the only way to do that was to make separate plugins.

How to fix? Well, you can’t use 2.0 in AE CS3 on an Intel Mac, because 2.0 doesn’t support Intel. The answer is to apply 3.0 to your comp, copy the settings from the 2.0 instance (even though the 2.0 plugin is missing, you can still see the settings in the Effects Controls Window), and remove the 2.0 instance of the plugin.
Pete
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Peter Litwinowicz]

I’m not 100% sure why you are seeing what you are seeing, but I’m 99% sure. It’s not an Intel Mac issue, it’s a an issue with RMSB being applied to Text or Shape layers, or being applied to an Adjustment layer.

I

[Peter Litwinowicz]

I’m not 100% sure why you are seeing what you are seeing, but I’m 99% sure. It’s not an Intel Mac issue, it’s a an issue with RMSB being applied to Text or Shape layers, or being applied to an Adjustment layer.

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[Peter Litwinowicz]

Hello there,

Mattes are created, usually, by software that allows you to draw or use curved lines to outline areas of the images (also called rotoscoping). Unfortunately, while you can USE such mattes within Twixtor, Twixtor is not responsible for creating such mattes. You must provide the mattes that are created elsewhere. Unfortunately, FCP is also not a good place to create such mattes as far I understand (while FCP is good at editing, it is not the best place to do rotoscoping).

I would advise asking this question in the FCP forum about what techniques and software people THERE use to do their rotoscoping.

Here at RE:Vision Effects, for example, we use a variety of software (other than FCP) to do our rotoscoping: most notably we use After Effects or combustion.

I know this is not much help, but ask this question in the FCP forum and I’m guessing you’ll get lots of good pointers.

Pete Litwinowicz
RE:Vision Effects, Inc.

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Hello there,

Mattes are created, usually, by software that allows you to draw or use curved lines to outline areas of the images (also called rotoscoping). Unfortunately, while you can USE such mattes within Twixtor, Twixtor is not responsible for creating such mattes. You must provide the mattes that are created elsewhere. Unfortunately, FCP is also not a good place to create such mattes as far I understand (while FCP is good at editing, it is not the best place to do rotoscoping).

I would advise asking this question in the FCP forum about what techniques and software people THERE use to do their rotoscoping.

Here at RE:Vision Effects, for example, we use a variety of software (other than FCP) to do our rotoscoping: most notably we use After Effects or combustion.

I know this is not much help, but ask this question in the FCP forum and I’m guessing you’ll get lots of good pointers.

Pete Litwinowicz
RE:Vision Effects, Inc.

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Have you tried our DE:Noise plugin? Priced at $149.95

There is a free demo version (click on the Downloads tabe: https://www.revisionfx.com/products/denoise/

Make sure to look for the manual that is installed with the plugin set by the installer.
Pete Litwinowicz
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Sorry our tutorials aren’t working well for you.

Here is the easiest description for creating a slow-mo from 2 seconds to 4 seconds, as you say you want to do in our online forum:

1) drop your clip into a sequence. Let’s call this sequence1.
2) because our plugin cannot extend the clip, you need to make the clip the final duration that you want by adding the clip as many times as you want to extend the duration. Since you want to make your 2 second clip into 4 seconds, add the clip one more time.
3) then create another sequence (let’s call this sequence2). Drop sequence1 into sequence2
4) apply Twixtor to sequence1 within sequence2. Set the speed of twixtor to 50%.

Hopefully this helps.

Also, did you find the short manual that is installed with the Twixtor plugins? That might help some. In particular the manul points you to a FAQ that details how to set up our Twixtor and FieldsKit plugins when you want to make the original clip longer. I just updated it today, in case you

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Sorry our tutorials aren’t working well for you.

Here is the easiest description for creating a slow-mo from 2 seconds to 4 seconds, as you say you want to do in our online forum:

1) drop your clip into a sequence. Let’s call this sequence1.
2) because our plugin cannot extend the clip, you need to make the clip the final duration that you want by adding the clip as many times as you want to extend the duration. Since you want to make your 2 second clip into 4 seconds, add the clip one more time.
3) then create another sequence (let’s call this sequence2). Drop sequence1 into sequence2
4) apply Twixtor to sequence1 within sequence2. Set the speed of twixtor to 50%.

Hopefully this helps.

Also, did you find the short manual that is installed with the Twixtor plugins? That might help some. In particular the manul points you to a FAQ that details how to set up our Twixtor and FieldsKit plugins when you want to make the original clip longer. I just updated it today, in case you