[Peter Stenhouse]

ignore the above! It is working! I am not sure what happened but I was pasting in only part of the expression.
Sorry to have wasted your time reading this post… though if I have brought more attention to this useful expression then it has served some purpose.
Thanks Dan!

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[Peter Stenhouse]

Thanks for the response. In my preliminary experimetns I have already encountered the PITA that is project collection. What is the Batch method you use, is it more than simply queuing a bunch of comps to render.
Thanks again
Peter

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[Peter Stenhouse]

Hey there.
this is probably not exactly what you are looking for but. You could just apply expression control effects to the layers, sliders, position, angle control etc and simply link them with pick whip expressions to the layers transform attributes. Then save those effects and expressions as an animation preset that you can apply to any layer that you want effects style control of. Then whenever you select a layer those controls will appear in the effects panel. I will often create a null and link attributes of many layers to expression controllers on it so I can tweak numerous attributes within the effects panel.
Hope this helps

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[Peter Stenhouse]

Thanks alot Dan it works very well.
cheers
Peter

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[Peter Stenhouse]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately the files are corrupt rather than being a memory problem.
I have had very few problems with image sequences till now.
I found the best way to detect them was to drag the entire sequence into preview, which will throw up a error message specifying images which won’t load. Scanning the thumbnails will also show which images are recognized as PNGs but are incomplete, i.e, half black.
so yeah
Painful, time consuming,

thanks again
Sincerely
Peter

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[Peter Stenhouse]

So “lookat” will point an object at another, but it won’t return values outside of -90 to 90 degrees. how do I get it to Look at with a range of 360 degrees?

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[Peter Stenhouse]

We don’t have any 60fps footage, though I have tried a little something with AE’s timewarp, and it looks fine, at about quarter speed it holds up pretty well. But I am sure I can push it further still with what we shoot which will be under ideal conditions. Thanks for your advice.
Sincerely
Peter

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[Peter Stenhouse]

I am not having much luck with importing the text file into maya. When I compare the pasted keyframe data with a maya .ma there seem to be alot of flags that I don’t have. What kind of text format does it need to be? I am not that familiar with MEL so am not sure how to begin using the keyframe data this way.
Thanks for the response
Sincerely
Peter

[Peter Stenhouse]

Hi

I am using keylight to key out some 16mm footage.

however after i have pulled a key the footage is becoming very buzzy and edges look
very jagged. I can change this using keylight, but surely the orginal key should be better than this
before I play with the settings? I also know the noise on 16mm is more than say vari-cam…

Woud re-importing it in frames help?

thanks

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[Peter Stenhouse]

Hi

I am using keylight to key out some 16mm footage.

however after i have pulled a key the footage is becoming very buzzy and edges look
very jagged. I can change this using keylight, but surely the orginal key should be better than this
before I play with the settings? I also know the noise on 16mm is more than say vari-cam…

Woud re-importing it in frames help?

thanks

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