Peter O'connell
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You can do it in AE except tracking which is atrocious in AE. I like AE paint and clone tools though. There is a difference overlay setting in AE for cloning which is really handy when you need it. If you really need high quality keying then I would also recommend Primatte 3. It can pull a much better key than the native AE plugins. If you can do all your tracking in silhouette and use Primatte for keying. I think you will be fine.
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I would recommend ‘turbulent displace’ or ‘displacement map’ (under effects>distort). Also Sapphire makes some really good displacement plugins. Hope this helps.
Pete -
I would recommend ‘turbulent displace’ or ‘displacement map’ (under effects>distort). Also Sapphire makes some really good displacement plugins. Hope this helps.
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A well executed multilayer comp is much more likely to impress people in the business and doesn’t necessarily require any 3rd party plugins. 5 seconds of excellent roto will get you way more interest from companies than keyframing some rays emanating from behind a word. IMHO
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One thing that has really sped up my roto lately is to do my roto on a layer which has the little eyeball turned off, and then to lock all other layers. That way you never lose your ram preview so your frames always update instantaneously. It has cut my roto time at least in half. Some functionality for choosing points is limited in this mode, by the way (you must choose multiple points individually, the marquee box for choosing multiple points won’t work).
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The effect in those images is achieved in Photoshop by copying the layer that the image is on, then to the top copy you add a gaussian blur of a few pixels and then change its blending mode to darken.
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Maybe they rendered that stuff out beforehand
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Combustion has a much better tracker, the paint in combustion has more options, like painting on an alpha channel with blending modes, you can pull apart individual vertices in combustion masks to feather them, combustion is node based. Other than that AE and combustion yield quite similar results in my opinion.
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Hi Richard, I think it would only fix the problem if you start your project with it turned on but it doesn’t change the masks that already exist.
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Make sure that preserve constant vertex count is checked in the prefs. Maye that will help.