Scott Novasic
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well talk about choosing the toughest of broadcast graphics to try and imitate! The amazing amount of depth and complex layering calls for a really organized apporoach. Its heavily 3d so your going to at the very least need to use AE’s 3d space. It would help if you had invigerator 3d from zaxwerks to get some of the shapes down. All I can say is study the sportcenter animation very carefully and take notes on a number of the effects and layers and create them individually in their own comps… then composite them independently until you get the complexity you want. Trapcode red giant plugs are great to have, but again… this is such a challenging graphic that one paragraph is never gonna be enough to get you where youll need to be. I would not attempt it outside of a true 3d app… but thats me…
good luck
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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sometimes i dupe my comps image… offset it, pull the color out and fast blur it. It will stay with your image because it IS your image.
just a thought…
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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I have real good luck with the liquify plug in in the distortion menu. Once you get used to it, you can really make some unique stuff. I combine it with a displacer, like shade shape to and some environmental settings and you can achieve any number of textures from thin blood to gloopy jelly…
good luck…
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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im not a camera expert, but usually i ask for the codec used by client which usually ships with camera software. I import their footage into a 1920×1080 comp on MY AE end, and output it the same to the client uncompressed. I do not want to re-compress their already ‘compressed’ data. Let “their” editing software take your PROPERLY sized output and interpet IT into its system. To cover your ‘quality butt’ so to speak. Thats how I would do it. Do not separate the fields unless they are requesting 1080i. And if they did not SHOOT 1080i than your just going to be duplicating fields anyway… kind of useless..
good luck.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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time displacement is very tricky. Some footage like clouds and such respond well to AE’s tools. Hard edged objects can present problems. Assuming all your settings are set to best, than I would recommend a third party product… re visions Twixtor which in my experience does it the best using an award winning algorithm.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
pre comp the bandaid you have already created. Use the pen tool to mask it out during the frames you need. During the frames you dont, simply set the transparency setting in one frame or field to zero then back to 100 as you may need the mask active again. Setting it to zero renders it null and inactive.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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the thing I look for in my ae machine (on a mac) is a MINIMUM of 2 gigs of ram per core of CPU. In your case, minimum of 8. BUT, cs5 changes things somewhat, and the more memory the better.
Also, MULTIPLE large screen hi res monitors. Todays HD video requirements really need space to breath.
I did not notice you mention screens. I LOVE the Dell 30inch screen over apples. (I have both) better image better price and more versatile positioning. (and I love all things apple, so recommending Dell anything is odd from me) Personally I want an 8 core machine. I would even consider a slightly older mac, in that the pricing is so much better than the new towers. Lots of fast internal storage is nice to have as well. Dont know the matrox card well…. try and get at card with 512 megs on it if you can.
Overall, you will NEVER regret the purchase of great monitors, and they WILL make you more productive.
And lots of memory would be second. # of cores third. video card 4th hard drives 5thgood luck, and consider refurbished machines from the apple store. I almost always buy refurbished and use some of the savings on an applecare plan. Its a win win with no risk.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
if a character jumps, isnt he then ‘moving’? Not sure of your question. You could try a motion blur set at the proper angle and cranked super high. Or the ‘fast blur’ filter with horizontal only selected. That may do what you need.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
twixtor from re-vision effects does this the best. Time re-mapping. But its not cheap. You really need to know your 3d program well enough to ease in and out within IT and avoid trying to mess with the motion after the fact. You are, from the photo, trying to hold still images for more than one frame increments. Not sure why, probably to attempt to ease them in, but thats just not how the animation workflow should occur.
good luck
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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good news is im 90% sure its a frame rate conversion thing, plus the facts Steve mentioned are valid as well. Bad News is, at least from ME, is, im not sure where it would have happened. Keep your frame rates consistent whenever possible to help yourself out.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects