[Shahin Ghahremani]

Thank you Walter for your great information, I didn’t know the matter that technical, I was actually trying to solve the problem practically, so thanks anyway for correcting me!

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Shahin

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Shoma irani hastid? kheili az molaghatetoon khoshbakhtam, agar emkan dare linki az animation hatoon bedid, moshtaaghe didaneshoon hastam.
Which field of Animation are you working in? I’m doing Character Animation by the way.
khosh hal misham dar tamas bashim.

Shahin

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I never tried this plug-in, but I just checked the RED web site and watched the tutorial, it seems like you cannot simply make the mask on top of the layer that included the Psunami effect, as this plug-in is processing some data through your GPU so it is somehow a realtime processing. what you may do is, make it as a pre-compose and try to assign the mask over the pre-composed layer, or else you might need to render it out and import the rendered footage to your scene and make your masking over it!
Hope this can help.

Shahin

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OK, now I got what you mean, if I am not mistaken you have a video with some moving objects and you need to cover up those objects with a solid white color and make the rest of the shot with solid black or vise versa!
if that’s the case, I would say, yes you can but you still need to do frame by frame masking!!! you know why cause this is you who must define the border between the edges of the moving object and its background, and if you use any plugin or filter, I don’t think it will be accurate enough in these cases! so I suggest you, to use masking tool and draw a path around the parts you want to cover up them with white color and change the nodes’ positions frame by frame and make key frames for the path shape for each frame, if you are a CS4 user, indeed! Obviously, that’s a very time consuming and honestly painful job, but this is what we call it rotoscoping, and when it comes to roto there is no way out! However, as I said in the older post, AE CS5 has a very powerful ability for this kind of masking which is called “Rotobrush” which is really making things easier, I have no idea how the programming algorithm works, but the result is awesome, and your computer can amazingly define the moving pixels and your moving objects so you can easily mask it out, but be aware that even this new feature might have some weaknesses, so everything is depending on your video quality and the contrast, and how well the pixels and edge-lines are recognizable!!! here is a link to a tutorial that shows how to use Rotobrush Tool, so you’ll get what I am talking about better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI23227FN5o&feature=related

There are a lot on YouTube, just search for Rotobrush on AE CS5!
OK, after you done with the rotoscoping part, you can simply copy the masking layer of what Rotobrush has made for you and paste it into a white or black solid object that you have made before (I assume like you’ve already made a black or white solid layer, cause you really need it if you want to cover up the masked area with only 1 color!)
Wow! That’s a long post already, sorry about that, but I wish this time it works for you.
Good luck!

Shahin

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Brian, I really would like to help you about this issue, but the thing is, I still haven’t get exactly what you mean! As what I understand from your post, you might want to extract some objects from your video without masking frame by frame (Rotoscoping)! Well practically it is somehow not possible, I mean you probably need to do some frame by frame work on your video, even though there are some new features available on AE CS5 which makes the rotoscoping way easier!
Or else, you might need to have a very good quality video with a clear Green screen background, so you can simply key out the green color and keep the rest of the objects of your scene untouched for applying other stuff on top!
I think you may need to search about Rotoscoping and Green screen masking to figure out how do they work.
I hope this was an answer to your question, if it is not, then I guess you need to provide some links to the tutorial video that you were talking about, so we could have a better view of what you are saying!

Good luck!

Shahin

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Ok Adam, yes there might be actually some ways for this, but I would draw a path and then create a round text character, like a dot or an O or something which is not really important at the moment as long as it looks like a blip on a radar, and link the character to the path, so that the character can move over the path by changing the text elements. then you can assign some effects to the text character and make it looks nicer, flashy with glow or something!
this is my way, hope it can help!

Shahin

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Tristan have you tried disabling or enabling your OpenGL feature inside AE? Cause I think this is something to do with your GPU settings. It might help, just check into your AE preferences and see whether OpenGL is active or not, if is active make it disable and check, because if you have something in your scene which is not supported by your GPU OpenGL version, it won’t render it properly! although if everything can be supported by the GPU then enabling the OpenGL is a big help in saving time!
Goodluck 🙂

Shahin

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Hello Sergio,
well I haven’t faced this problem, and you can actually control that which track you need to export and which not! By the way here is my way for exporting a video together with audio track in a single file,
after I finished with my composition and adjusted the work area using the timeline work area bar, I go to Composition > Make movie
Then your request will be added under ‘Render Queue’ which you can simply set all the settings due to your demand.
But usually exporting media in 2 different files happens when you choose MPEG file compression, in that case AE or PR gives you an .m2v and a .wav file if i am not mistaken which then you may need another software to compile them together. So to avoid that, yet getting an MPEG file format in your output you need to check ‘Multiplex DVD’ radio-button under the Audio settings of the menu!
Hope this can help you.

Shahin

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Here are the steps by assuming that the clip is already set onto the timeline and ready to go:
1. simply go to File > Export > Media
2. on the menu window just opened, UNCHECK the EXPORT VIDEO and select WINDOWS WAVE FORM from the Format drop down menu bar
(actually when you select the format as .Wav the EXPORT VIDEO will automatically go off!)
3. Now under the summery you can see a summery of the file you will get after all, so if you satisfy then just click on EXPORT straight away, though if not just adjust the bit rate and any other quality options given as you want then press Export. (Just keep in mind that it would be better if you also set the location of the output file from the menu now otherwise you may wander around to find your file later!)
That’s all!
Now import the Audio file into any audio editing software that you have and assign your manipulation to it!
By the way you can also do some simple audio editing within Premiere itself and then export the final result though it depends on the complexity of the edit that you want, since Premiere is not specifically for audio editing!
Good luck.

Shahin

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Hi Nicole, that is very simple to export only the audio track of your video and edit it in a professional software! What you only need is a QuickTime Pro or Adobe premiere or even Adobe encoder! however QuickTime pro is way easier and faster way in this case, and what you only need to do is opening your video clip with QuickTime pro and export it to an audio file that you need like mp3 or wav, but basically this only possible if your video file format is a .mov / .avi / .flv and some other formats and/or compressions that are supported by QuickTime!
By the way Adobe premiere also can be a good alternative for this, again if only your video file can be imported by Premiere, indeed. and the way is so easy again which you only need to drop your video file onto the timeline and UNLINK the audio and video track from one the other and delete the video track and keep the audio on the time line and export whatever remains on the timeline to an audio file! That’s it!
Hope this can help you!

Regards

Shahin

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