[Quejet]

Yah you want something physical! Well I’ve personally never heard of anything that is capable of doing what you want
but just because that someone hasn’t made the plug in doesn’t mean you cant make it yourself.

Firstly consider your options. What if you were to take some footage of rope dangling across the room and key that in instead? That would definitely look very good.

Another option would be to use masks and stroke, animate the mask ever so slightly to produce the dangling rope effect

if this isn’t any good, then… well its something…
you could use expressions to create the physics yourself. But there really aren’t that many people out there willing to go so far for such an effect.

I think your best bet is the masks.

[Quejet]

hes right, the reason your file size is larger is because there is alot more movement in the second clip.

[Quejet]

your first method worked the best

i still need to refine my keying on him, it was a quick 10 second job.

[Quejet]

Views don’t allow you to see the composition in different states (one view with the layers visibility off and one view with the layers visibility on), They DO however low focused close ins of an area and still having a view of the overall picture of the composition, they also are very helpful when it comes to working in 3d with after effects

as to why keylight saw fit to mention that you can split the views, i can only guess

more then likely they wanted you to zoom into an edge for one view, and keep an overall picture of what your keying in another, and tweak the keylight values until the key comes out nice.

[Quejet]

hmm perhaps you are right about glow being the wrong tool, however i don’t believe trapcodes shine is the perfect tool either (though a notable suggestion none the less)

the reason I’m thinking this is that:

trapcode shine is directional (emanating from a point)
trapcode shine is volumetric
trapcode shine 99 bucks .(

the blur seems interesting, and compacting layers on top of each other seems interesting as well, perhaps CC composite can be used? Ill start playing around!

[Quejet]

Hmm. I appreciate that I’m a bran spanking new member of creative cow, however my experience with after effects isn’t as limited as you think it is. (refer to sig for example)
glow isn’t doing what we want, not because of threshold. the point of this is that for one glow effect, all the settings, no mater what they are set to, don’t give me the result im looking for, which is a much larger bloom.

I have a feeling this point isn’t getting across so to illustrate this better for you, Dave could you do me a favour and open after effects? Create a comp oh say 480 640 (thats the resolution i commonly work in anyway…) and create a thin solid (10 px sound good?) for the glow

set this in the centre and try to glow this layer so that you get a strong bloom that reaches the top and bottom of the composition.

if you successfully get this to work, post a picture of this and give us some settings. And you will have solved the problem!

[Quejet]

hehe, I appreciate that, unfortunately i really have. although i will admit that the images i showed you didn’t demonstrate ramping the intensity up for the larger radius, still, this really has a constrained effect, what i mean by this is that once radius gets to some value, it doesn’t matter how much intensity i have, it just doesn’t do anything.