Robert Houghton
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Fractal Noise will work as a background element. In my humble opinion to make the storm appear more realistic you’re going to need a layer of churning cloudlike particles (i.e. using particular or some such plugin).
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A little bit of tinkering around with particular’s physics features (using the cloud particle of course) and a distortion map over it would probably fit the job nicely.
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I would use option #1 unless you were trying to match the 3D to a video, then possibly #2. If you do #3 it could throw audio out of synch but that’s if your project is long enough to account for the .97 frames 😉
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Do you have a visual link you can send? From your description it might be possible that FCP might be incorrectly interpolating (possibly automatically) the video into something else. For example, (DV aspect 720×480 versus NTSC 720×486) or Film pullup/down. Those are the guesses I can hazard 🙂
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Do those include revostock and istockphoto?
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The last time I played with Fusion was in ’99 so my knowledge is a bit limited. I do remember that it was a fantastic keyer back then (much more so than AE). After looking at Eyeon’s website, it looks like a good mature product to add to a toolkit. My only hesitation would be to check out Combustion as well since that also is reputed to be a good compositing app.
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For some bizarre reason the overall look of the piece reminds me of the DVD/Tape cover for Time Bandits 🙂
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Ok, I’ll take a stab at it.
If you look closely at the bike riders you can tell they were lit in full sunlight (or something of similar brightness). A decent luma key will pull a hard shadow like that off the pavement. Toss in a bit of a blur to clean up the edges of the shadow and you will have an accurately lit rotoscope.
I initially thought that the bull was a rotoscoped rodeo picture but the shadow is much too clean for that. I don’t know if stage managers rent their stages for that kind of abuse. If not you can probably make a shot like that happen on a bright blue day on a dusty lot.
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Ahh yes, layer sets or “groups” sorry about that not being clear there…
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heheh… what do you think I’m doing now with them? 😉
The problem is that the darn folders have multiple layers and folders in them which makes it more time consuming than it should be to organize this stuff. I’m not talking about small photoshop projects with 20 total layers in it, that would be cake. I work with files that can have up to 200-300 layers. We do long form commercials as well as DVD menus, etc.
I can easily spend a couple of hours just organizing these files in either photoshop or AE.