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Robert Newton
December 3, 2012 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Getting QT quality h.264 out of Windows AE

Excellent. Thanks for all this advice, guys. Yes, Dave, I know h.264 is lossy, but the .h.264 are just for review copies to be attached to emails. We use Animation codec (or sometimes Jpeg2000) for finals.

I haven’t used AME before, but I’m about to download it.

Robert
Robert Newton
September 26, 2012 at 1:07 am in reply to: Snapping a layer to another layer’s position in 3D space

D’oh! of course. I use that technique all the time, but it never crossed my mind, etc etc.

Thanks so much, Joe. Love that tip.

Robert Newton
Robert Newton
December 11, 2011 at 2:50 am in reply to: FCP user switching to Avid_MC on PC – XDCam workflow question

Ahhh, that all makes sense. Now I know why it didn’t work when I copied just the CLPR folders over. That’s what I was looking for, thanks so much Andrew. Plus the consolidation tip might be the way to go. Didn’t realize it maintained the XDCAM codec.
Robert Newton
November 4, 2011 at 2:55 pm in reply to: 3D Tracking for placing animation across room surfaces

Thanks for the tip on Camera Tracker. I’ve been using Syntheyes for years. Just finished over 100 shots for a series with Syntheyes, and though I really like it, I would love to have something integrated with After Effects.

And at $170, that’s a lot cheaper than Syntheyes. I’ve got some really hard shots I just did. I’ll test them with Camera Tracker.

Robert N.
Robert Newton
November 3, 2011 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Apply tracking data to masks?

Wow, James, way to knock the ball out of the park with that answer.

That was EXACTLY the correct way to do what the original questioner was looking for. For animating the mask on a non-transforming object inside a scene – basically keeping a tight roto around an object that isn’t moving – James’s explanation above is THE way to do it.

A great way to highlight an object in a scene.
A great way to blur a single object in a scene.
A great way to color correct an object, like a chair, in a scene.

So many uses. No need for scripts (because the original mask isn’t changing that much, just transforming along x and y.) Thanks James for setting it out step-by-like that.

Robert N.
Robert Newton
March 30, 2010 at 12:47 pm in reply to: White balance changing mid-shot

Don & Mike,

Thanks for those tips! Very useful as I figure out my workflow on this camera.

Robert
Robert Newton
March 30, 2010 at 12:49 am in reply to: White balance changing mid-shot

Thanks for those tips Ray, I will check those out. Just the kind of supplement to the manual I was looking for.
Robert Newton
March 29, 2010 at 5:13 pm in reply to: White balance changing mid-shot

Thx for the quick reply.

Aah, yes ATW was indeed on. I thought that if you actually white balanced with a preset it overrode the ATW.

That was most likely my problem.

Really love this camera, but still figuring out the auto vs manual settings.

Robert
Robert Newton
July 26, 2006 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Does FCP 4.5 have a “replace with…” function like AE?

Thanks Tom,

I haven’t actually tried that function yet. I’ll give it a shot.

Robert
Robert Newton
May 17, 2006 at 6:29 pm in reply to: .wmv files directly out of AE Windows

I’m in Windows. Forgot to add that.

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