[Pierre Jasmin]

For feathering a shape, you need to link the shape to a mask and then use a tool like PV Feather (www.revisionfx.com,$70).

Note it’s a very limited workflow as the link happens before the shape transforms. You can also simply make a color solid and draw a shape with masks and use PV Feather on that (there is also a fill tool in AE to color a mask shape). As far as tracking shape vertices (publishing to UI shape/mask vertices), well you are probably the 10000th user to ask the same thing. 🙁

Pierre
http://www.revisionfx.com

[Pierre Jasmin]

THERE IS A BUG IN AE for ever WHICH I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN HERE + workaround

If the footage comes from Avid, Premiere, FCP etc
I have seen this problem:

In Frame Rate select [x] conform to frame rate and type in exact values
23.976023976
and paste same value in
comp settings FPS
23.976023976
or 29.97002997002997 etc for that matter

These periodic fractions comes from the analog days where there was no floating point in hardware, so video engineers had to represent such things exactly using “rational” numbers (an integer over an integer)
29.97 comes from 30000/1001 (try it in your calculator)
60000/1001 is 59.94005994005994…
24000/1001 is 23.9760239760…

That looks like not much but it can be enough to make some fields “fall” on the wrong frame
Actually importing 59.94005994005994 as Premiere spits out in field project and setting a comp to FPS 59.94 in AE comp settings where you would drop such footgae will actually duplicate each field in AE (the second field will fall like at 0.4999 or something instead of 0.5 or over so will also be returned as the same field as 0.0)
Note sometimes AE abbreviates 29.970 to cue you it’s actually 29.97002997002997

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

Something is possible if you have large res stills by chain morphing (by which I mean animate stills scaling so they match with step dissolves and then replace the dissolves once the timing is fine with morphing)

I am not sure where to get stills for that, you might want to look into Google earth PRO which can generate the movie I think for you

https://earth.google.com/earth_pro.html

and maybe you just make a painting to morph to for the finest close up

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

Something is possible if you have large res stills by chain morphing (by which I mean animate stills scaling so they match with step dissolves and then replace the dissolves once the timing is fine with morphing)

I am not sure where to get stills for that, you might want to look into Google earth PRO which can generate the movie I think for you

https://earth.google.com/earth_pro.html

and maybe you just make a painting to morph to for the finest close up

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

It’s what the “Track Frame” menu in “Auto” mode is supposed to deal with for you automatically.

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

It’s what the “Track Frame” menu in “Auto” mode is supposed to deal with for you automatically.

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

One issue with extreme slow mo is any small error you have plenty of time to see. Normally for this sort of effect it can work best to shoot against a green screen (something keyable) otherwise you might need to provide a roto matte of the actor (or more).

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

One issue with extreme slow mo is any small error you have plenty of time to see. Normally for this sort of effect it can work best to shoot against a green screen (something keyable) otherwise you might need to provide a roto matte of the actor (or more).

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

If you press After Effects (the blue accordion bar)
https://revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/support/
You will find more

If you want to produce a 20X slowdown
Simply 1) drop your footage in comp1, set comp1 duration to a minute (1500 frames at 25 FPS)
2) drop comp1 into comp2 (new comp from comp so it is 1500 frames as well)

In Twixtor set Mode to Speed (it defaults to frame)
Set Speed to 0.05 %
Render

Pierre

[Pierre Jasmin]

If you press After Effects (the blue accordion bar)
https://revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/support/
You will find more

If you want to produce a 20X slowdown
Simply 1) drop your footage in comp1, set comp1 duration to a minute (1500 frames at 25 FPS)
2) drop comp1 into comp2 (new comp from comp so it is 1500 frames as well)

In Twixtor set Mode to Speed (it defaults to frame)
Set Speed to 0.05 %
Render

Pierre