Russ Andersson
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I’m launching it from a GUI executable. The .com is a command-line program, you can double-click it and you get the console window no matter what.
After some teeth-gnashing, I did determine that afterfx.exe also processes the -r option, allowing one to launch scripts from the other programs without opening a console window.
There is a big gotcha, though, which has likely thrown off other people on the net who have tried to do this…. AfterFX.exe does not perform any quote processing — you must NOT put any quotes around the full path name of the AfterFX executable, and you must NOT put any quote around the full path name of the script to be run. You must do this:
C:program filesadobeadobe after effects ccsupport filesafterfx.exe -r d:my longpath nameand script.jsx
By contrast, AfterFX.com is fine with the usual quoting you’d put around the executable name and script name.
You can easily verify this for the script name from a console window; it applies for exe too though its a little harder to verify. Hopefully this will save someone some hair.
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The SynthEyes image preprocessor and stabilizer are invertible, so this workflow is pretty straightforward. You should pad up the image in the preprocessor before stabilizing, so that you don’t have to have any part of it get cropped, since you want the full original image back. You should specify a higher output resolution, so that the padding area doesn’t cause any downsampling.
After you output the stabilized sequence and add your effects, you take the same scene in SynthEyes, and do a Shot/Change Shot Images to your modified footage. That will give you an option to select for re-distorting CGI effects; it will reconfigure the image preprocessor to remove the upsample, stabilization, and padding — giving you back images that match your original.
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SynthEyes is not free under any circumstances. Using a torrent is called “theft” not “free.”
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Just a quick thought—-did you transfer everything from your old machine? Perhaps you have an older PowerPC-only AE in place? If so then the new Mac Pro will be running using Rosetta and poor performance is to be expected. Cure would be to re-install a current Universal version of AE.
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Anyone with some comments on what the Motion 3 3-D environment *can* be used for? Any ways you might want to use it reasonably with matchmoved cameras?
The different data format isn’t the issue — I have an initial rough cut that exports 3-D camera moves to Motion 3. But I’m asking if it is worth the trouble to finish it—if there is a way to ultimately use the results in Motion 3, notwithstanding the initial hurdle of getting data into it.
If you want to use Motion 3’s 3-D environment with camera tracking data, now is the time to speak up, and point out a productive way to configure Motion for that work. Thanks.
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Excellent, thanks!
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You’d be better off generating the shadow in C4D using a shadow-catcher setup and some proxy geometry—in this case a simple ground plane. You’ll have trouble if you try to expand the rendered image to be able to generate the shadow this way in Shake—you’ll have to recalculate a wider field of view very carefully as well. I could generate the equation if I had to, but it would be a pain and ultimately this isn’t a robust technique for generating true shadows.
Paying the rent: you might like to check out our SynthEyes package (www.ssontech.com) for a state-of-the-art yet affordable tracking solution.