Simon Bonner
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H.264 is a delivery codec and therefore highly compressed. You can tweak the settings to get the level of compression you want, though you may be better off compressing from a dedicated compression programme like squeeze. If you’re going to be processing the clip again (i.e. sending to DVD), you would be better off using a lossless codec, like animation set to 100%.
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At the moment it sounds like it could be solved with parenting.
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You’re rotating the camera, right? Perhaps the camera’s pivot point to far in front of the tv, so when ou rotate the camera, it ends up “inside” the tv (i.e. between the layers that make it up). The back of a layer looks the same as the front, so you may be looking at the back of one of the layers.
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Yes, it’s a shame the effect isn’t rendered as a vector. If it’s too slow, you could work with the comp resolution turned down to half/third.
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This sounds like a job best accomplished using a 3D programme. The small nose, for example, will need to change shape as the face turns. However, you may be able to get some way towards the effect by using some of the techniques in Andrew Kramer’s eye replacement tutorials (and possibly the set extensions tutorial) at videocopilot.net.
I assume you’ve not already shot the footage. Try to film close ups directly on and with minimal sideways movement to maintain the realism of the effect.
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Scaling up an adjustment layer will not scale up the effects it produces, it will just scale up its area of influence.
I’ve had a quick go at replicating your problem, and I think the only solution might be to add the audio track to a new comp with large dimensions, add a solid layer above it, precompose both layers, add the effect to the precomp, then nest this precomp into your main comp. That way it will be large to begin with and you won’t need to scale it up.
So, to clarify, you will have:
1) a main comp (normal dimensions) with precomp 1 in it.
2) precomp 1 (large) with precomp 2 in it: the effect is added to precomp 2.
3) precomp 2 (large) with a solid layer and the audio file in it.Finally, it’s worth mentioning that you should only use uncompressed audio in AE as the programme doesn’t always work well with compressed formats like MP3.
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You could use thee turbulent displace effect, animate the evolution property, and switch the frame rate way down so the smoothly changing distortion becomes choppy.
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Yes you can, but I don’t believe you can do it via the render queue – you have to go via File > Export. AE also has a ready-made comp preset for web banners (toggle down the preset menu when you make a new comp).
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The coninuously rasterize switch is also known as the collapse transformation switch. It sounds like you are collapsing transformations here – try zooming in the precomp rather than the main comp, then you would not need to scale up inside the main comp at all.
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