Peter O'connell
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Hi, why not contact Barry Berman directly (the guy who wrote the mocon scripts)?
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[Charles Taylor] “Also, is there a shortcut to lock all layers but the current layer?”
Click a lock and drag across all other layers you want to lock. This can probably be done with scripting too.
[Charles Taylor] “you have a persistent transform handle that will move and rotate the shape and that doesn’t interfere with the rest of your work.”
If you choose to leave your layer on, marquee select the points you want and then double click any one of them to transform only them. If the roto layer’s visibility is off (to preserve the ram cache), click a point to add it to the selection of points or click on a line connecting 2 points to add 2 points at a time then double click the selection to get the marquee box.
[Charles Taylor] “In AE, you can click on the whole tangent handle”
I can’t click on a handle to control it. Which AE are you using? Are you sure you aren’t confusing this with clicking on the mask itself (but not directly on a point)
CS5 is coming out in a few days so lets hope some of your beefs get addressed. My solutions are all kind of workarounds. I do agree that Shake has a very nice roto tool set. And as far as Nuke’s roto it has apparently much improved since the release of Nuke 6.
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[Charles Taylor] “if you click off of the roto in the comp window once too many times you end up de-selecting the roto and having to click on it again in the layer window”
Just hit the layer number on the numeric keypad if you lose your roto-shape. I personally never use the layer window for roto.
[Charles Taylor] “I don’t want to move that layer. I don’t want to select that layer.”
Lock all layers other than the roto layer. Turn the roto layer visibility off for fast ram playback (You sacrifice marquee sub-selections when you do this though).
[Charles Taylor] “Also, the difficulty of switching between transforming the whole shape vs. one point.”
Double click for a transform box around all points. Option click to select all points without a transform box.
[Charles Taylor] “And the fact that you can’t decide whether moving a point should move the adjacent tangent handles to smooth the curve or not”
consider switching your mask to roto-bezier mode.
[Charles Taylor] “it’s way too easy to click on the handle accidentally”
It isn’t the handle, it is anywhere on the mask itself which can be handy at times.
Pete
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Hi. It was just announced at NAB. try this search in Google, you will get several hits:
foundry nab “after effects” 3d tracker
Pete
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The Foundry is coming out with a 3D tracker for After Effects soon.
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Hi. You might be able to get your roto shapes in via Silhouette.
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Hi Roland. Using draft mode is an interesting option. This forces the image to the nearest full pixel, right?
For tracking at 2k for something you are going to see in a cinema, you need to get down to between 0.1 and 0.2 pixel accuracy in order for a track to look rock solid, so in this case draft mode might not be the best option. There is no easy answer to this problem. When you stabilize a plate very accurately, it invariably will get softened slightly due to the sub-pixel re-sampling you mentioned.
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Hi. If you move your footage 0.47 pixels in x and 0.38 pixels in y (for example) and you then compare that to the original (using AE’s snapshot feature), you will see the softness that the producer is talking about.
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