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Hi Mark
I hope that your tutorials are meant for the COW. Always good to have new people come on board.
To get started, it’s a good idea to hone in on your strengths. Then look at what’s available to see if you can improve on their techniques/design. You could also have a better technique with which to achieve certain effects or design.
I hope you get some juicy replies here. And don’t forget to search the COW cao’ we’ve had a few posts such as yours and there were quite a number of replies then.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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Sounds like an issue with Pixel Aspect Ratios. Perform a Search here at the COW on aspect ratio and you should find lots of information to help you understand what’s going on with your footage.
If you’re going to post again, please provide more information on your footage dimensions, composition settings and render+output settings.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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I’ve not heard of issues with MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or WMVs in Powerpoint. I would stick to those. What platform are you on. Please provide more details of your issues.
And use the Add Media Object command rather than the Add Video command. A Media Object provides video playback buttons which are useful if you want to stop, pause etc during playback.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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If you are going to be using huge footage items, then it’s best to invest some time planning your work. With regards to image sizes, I recommend starting with something decently sized, no larger than 1Kx1K. Then scale it as required.
The idea here is to get a gauge on how big your footage should be.Once you’re done with the moves, you’ll need to look at the scale values for the layer to know how huge your ‘final’ footage should be. Navigate to the keyframe value with the largest percentage for scale. Right-click on the Scale value within the Switches Column in the timeline, and select Edit Value. In the accompanying popup window, change units from Pecentage to Pizels.
This value is what you will need as the maximum pixel size for the footage. you may want to pad the values for contingency. But working quickly in this manner allows you to ascertain your pixel (resolution) requirements without breaking AE’s image buffer.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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The thread below was posted just yeaterday.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/914664
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Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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Good Night
Roland Kahlenberg
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Write-on is what you want. Apply Write-on to your layer of choice and then perform the track. For the track target, choose the Brush-position for Write-on.
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Roland Kahlenberg
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This one is one of Dan Ebbert’s oldie but goodie Expression scripts.
You’ll need both layers in your compe. Set both layers to 3D.
Switch off the back layer. Rename it BackLayer and set its Z-position to -1.
Apply Effect>Channel>Blend to the front layer and then apply the following script to the “Blend with Original” parameter. Ensure that “Blend with Layer” is set appropriately to the BackLayer.
//Start of Script
LayerName=this_comp.layer(“BackLayer”).position;
a = to_world_vec([0,0,1]);
b = LayerName – to_world(anchor_point);
c = dot(a,b)/length(b);
if (c > 0){
0
}else{
100
}
//EOSCheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace -
Try this one ->
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/911136Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace -
Not too sure which plugin Andrew used but take a look at this AEP from Trapcode called Bend from this URL – https://www.trapcode.com/products_3dstroke.html.
The trick is to use the Z-Clip Front and Back values on two identical layers – one below and the other above the object you want to swirl around.
HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace