Ron Coy
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yeah, it’d be nice… but then they couldn’t offer it for the low low price they currently do… 🙂
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I remember back in the day, I set up the help PDF to print as a small quarter page sized booklet. All you had to do was fold the page in half and in half again, put the pages in order and staple them. The folded pages ended up with the opposite/2 sided pages in the correct order so that when you stacked them correctly, you had a small staple bound pamphlet.
I’ll have to try it again and post a tutorial on it!
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there are tricks to speeding up preview renders, like rendering every other frame…
Jaysen Hansen has a PDF of tips on speeding up AE workflows. It’s on his website. xeler8r.com
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black magic’s should be available on their site… last time I looked (a month or so ago) they were.
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no, I don’t think Apple ProRes has that problem. Others might, but it depends on the codec.
Most codecs built on Mpeg or a variation of it will have this problem. I believe this is the case with native HDV.
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that’s a matter of debate… a can of worms I’m afraid to open myself.
On this forum, you’ll likely hear After Effects as the choice. Well, duh. It’s an After Effects forum.
I don’t use Motion much yet. I am familiar and comfortable with the After Effects interface and toolset. However, there are REALLY cool built in functions of Motion (especially the latest version) that I could utilize much faster and easier than I can do things in After Effects. You can look at the Motion page on Apple’s website for videos that show some of the capabilities of the program.
That being said, I think that After Effects is definitely more powerful. It is more flexible, offers more control over everything, and has a ton of very useful plugins and filters, and a ton of resources (that didn’t exist when I first started with it) that make learning it much easier. Well, maybe not easier to learn than Motion, but certainly cheaper.
Easier to use does not equal better. Motion can do some cool stuff quickly, and it has a bright future as a compositing program for non-compositors (meaning video editors can pick it up more easily than using After Effects IMHO), but if you want to do really awesome stuff, with a rock solid toolset… can’t beat After Effects.
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you may not have to make the sheet of paper as large as that, but it would either have to be long enough to do a continual scroll over the time you want it to be moving, or you can scroll it for say, 3 seconds, then duplicate and offset the layers so that it basically loops for the total amount of time needed.
as far as your fractal noise filter goes, why not run that filter on a photoshop document… make the paper itself an image in photoshop where you can control the look of it without it rendering over and over. Unless you are changing the fractal noise over time, you don’t need the filter rendering 30 times a second… render it once in photoshop.
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I don’t know when it was there, but I didn’t find a crossfade in AE 6.5 or CS3, which are the two versons I have on different machines.
you might be able to write expressions or just save the opacity levels for two layers to presets.
Or you can just animate the opacity of the layers where they overlap so that one is at 0 when the other is at 100 and vice versa (but I assume you knew that)
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hey, whatever works man.
the thing about After Effects is that there are many ways to skin a cat. What works for me may not work for you, because our sources may be different, and the look we want to achieve may be slightly different. That’s the artistic part of the creative process… That’s the part I love.
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you need to enable time remapping for the layer, then change the endpoint of the time remap to make the footage play faster.
then go to the Animation menu and click Browse Presets and find the Image-Special Effects folder. There are some cool distortion presets in there to make the video look like it’s being fast forwarded, if you tweak them and add to them.
That should at least get you started.