Richard Frazer
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Perfect! Thanks a lot.
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Yes – doing this for a living I can assure you that its all rotoscoping. When people talk about all this magical VFX work just being done “on computers” I dont think they realise that armies of artists sit in dark rooms doing nothing but rotoscoping on pretty much any film involving CGI. With the best greenscreen setup in the world, there is usually need for some additional roto to get shots right.
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Im not aware of any quick way of doing this. I often have to push things further back in Z-space and then manually scale them to compensate. I guess you could write an Expression that scales them in relation to distance from the camera, but it would involve some maths with the angle of the camera lens that I cant quite work out.
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Hi Sam
Im not trying to use AE to edit the sequence – I am compositing a scene that has already been edited by our offline editor. The catch is that it’s a fight scene, so it has lots and lots of cuts (there are nearly 100 shots in a 2 minute sequene). My usual workflow of compositing and rendering each shot seperately to reassemble in FCP gets bogged down in this situation. Also, I need to see the flow of each shot running back to back, as the look is quite stylized and it is important check the consistency of motion.
There are more practical problems of pre-composing each shot, as I have layers parented to null objects in order to provide consistent camera shake between all layers. If I break up the parenting by pre-composing, I lose the ability to tweak this without it getting very complex.
I think I may try what Kevin suggsted with the “force motion blur” filter- Ive not used it before so wasnt sure how it worked. -
Thanks for your thoughts on this. Im not sure how I can keyframe switching the motion blur off and on – as far as Im aware there is just the switch for a layer and the global switch for the whole comp – CC environment has no setting just for itself.
as for pre-comping each clip, i had thought about this. Without boring you with explanations, this would basically be a hideously long-winded process due to some of the interaction between layers that i have going on. -
I’d also like to know if anyone has a fix for this. It really does add quite a huge amount of unnecessary time when batching lots of files. it would seem crazy that there isn’t a preference setting somewhere to avoid this..