Sean Emer
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What are you trying to do?
-Sean Emer
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I did this in a graphic in which the camera ‘flies’ through a field of photographs. Whenever I had the camera spin around to the other side of a photo, I needed to see a new photo. I didn’t know any expression stuff, so all I did was make two layers – the front layer and the back layer. I put them in the same position in 3D space and then keyframed them to turn on/off when the camera was halfway through the turn. It was seemless and simple.
-Sean Emer
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I assume you mean this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/912717
There are some cool ideas in there, for sure. To me, when I saw the commercial on TV the first time, it looked as if they had achieved that effect using stop motion on a live action set. I know it sounds incredibly tedious, but you must admit that it certainly looks almost clamation-like the way the woman moves.
If only life had ‘Ctrl-Z’
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I’m not an expert on time lapse photography, but I was on the location of a discovery channel show a week or so ago, and the crew did a timelapse shot throughout the whole day with a still camera. The show is called Really Big Things I think, so if you want to see how their time lapse stuff looks, check out one of their episodes. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
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I’d hook my monitor up right now, but the only analog to digital converter I have is an old advc100, and it doesn’t work anymore. My dsr-45 is on our A machine for media transfers and higher budget cuts, so oh well. I’ll be back at school soon, so I’ll find a way to get a monitor working up there.
Thanks for all the help guys.
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Alright I did as you suggested with the Animation codec etc. etc., and I’m seeing the same quality response in Avid, so tomorrow morning I’m just going to burn a test DVD since I’m suspecting now this is more an issue of Avid’s preview display than my render settings etc.
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thanks for that tip! I don’t know what I would do without this forum, haha!
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Thanks for the tips, and I would have an external CRT monitor for this kind of thing but its packed up for a big shoot coming up, so I’m flying blidn, as it were.
I’m gonna screw around for a little while, and if I find an answer, I’ll post it back here in case anybody else has an issue like this.
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thank you for the response! I am still a film student in college, so I have a lot to learn about the technicalities in digital media. My AE comp is on the D1/DV NTSC setting (0.9). In avid my import settings (relevant to frame size) are as follows:
Under ‘Aspect Ratio, Pixel Aspect’ I have selected ‘Maintain, non-square’ This is out of a choice of ‘601, non-square’, ‘Maintain, non-square’, ‘Maintain, square’, and ‘Maintain and Resize, square’
Under File Field Order, I have chosen Non-interlaced.
The final cut will be heading to DVD for reproduction and sale, so it may be viewed on both TVs and Computers (so… what now? haha)
You mentioned that some programs mayu automatically adjust the aspect ratio for previewing? I’ve seen those warnings in Photoshop and AE, but never in Avid, so I’m not sure what to think.
Any further help would be great!
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I might be going off course here, but if all you needed to track was that one object (example… tracking a pinpoint lightsource in a shot in order to add effects to it), then after the object leaves the shot, it would be easier to just manually keyframe the rest of the information to get whatever you’re applying the motion-track to offscreen. Of course I don’t know the project you’re working on, so that might be completely unhelpful, haha.