[Phil Williams]

I suppose it just felt that I was doing something “wrong” by making the image layers shake, rather than shaking the camera. But of course, applying the motion track to the camera totally screwed up the keyframing of the specially-timed camera moves.

[Phil Williams]

Thankyou!

[Phil Williams]

Heh! Just dropped that on, and it’s done – thanks! ☺

I’d been messing around with Keylight and not getting the effect I wanted…

[Phil Williams]

This tutorial might help:

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[Phil Williams]

You need to create a new background with the objects removed, and then composite the actor on top of the background. This could be quick and easy or very difficult.

If the camera was locked off on a tripod, then it could be easy. A classic approach would be to just grab a still frame of the scene and paint out the background objects using the clone tool in either AE or Photoshop. Then re-composite your actor over that still.

If the camera is moving, which means the background is constantly moving and shifting perspective, then it’s going to be much more difficult. It might even be impossible to do. It all depends on the shot.

[Phil Williams]

Thankyou! That fixed it!

[Phil Williams]

Hi Mark,

There’s no field rendering option. There’s field dominance, which you can change between None, Not Set, Upper or Lower, but setting it to None or Not Set does not switch off field rendering.

I can apply a deinterlace filter to the .motn project, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to toggle field rendering in FCP otherwise.

[Phil Williams]

Thanks for that, Andy. BTW it was your Video Wall tutorial that taught me how you could use the “start frame offset” function of a replicator, so thanks for that as well 🙂

[Phil Williams]

Thanks for that, Stephen. I can see how that would give you extra flexibility, because then you could fly the individual logos in from offscreen to build up the circle, and fly them off again after they’ve done their carousel thing.

I guess I was thinking along the lines of a movie, a replicator and the “start frame offset” because that would make it child’s play to move all the logos around the perimeter of the circle in a start-stop-start “tie rack” or “roulette wheel” motion, using just the one offset parameter. Co-ordinating that sort of animation for 8 individual logos on 8 individual layers feels like it could get complicated 🙂

[Phil Williams]

Hi Mark,

I’ve only just seen this, so many belated thanks! You’re a star!