Simon Bonner
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I will assume you already have the animation of the screens completed. However, it’s still difficult to say what you should do next as I am unsure as to whether you have animated using a camera that is moving in 3D space, or you are simply animating the screens’ position properties to budge them in and out of the visible comp area.
If you are animating screen position, you should consider using a camera instead.
The reason I’m thinking you might be animating screen position is that, if you were using a camera, you would not have to worry about making your footage “stay in the screen” when the screen moves. The footage would share much the same position as the screen, and this wouldn’t change when the camera moved.
However, if you have the animation just as you want it, place the footage beneath the screen in the layer stack, use the pen tool to draw a mask around the edges of the screen if the screen is not already transparent, set the mask to “subtract”, position the footage how you want it, then parent the footage to the screen. When the screen moves, the footage will move with it.
Also remember to turn on motion blur for all your layers and for the comp.
Hope this helps.
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Check out Aharon’s three part tutorial on how to create an odometer:
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/index.html
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Are these two different problems? If so, explain them further so readers can understand more clearly.
If you’re asking, can you use a black and white monochrome image as a mask / matte? then yes, you can.
Place the b&w image above your footage in the layer stack and then set the track matte of your footage to luma matte or luma matte inverted, depending whether you want to see through the white or the black.
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Could be an interlacing problem. Select your footage in the project panel, hit cntl+f to open the interpret footage dialogue, then experiment with the separate fields option. Render out a 5 sec clip for each alternative and see if this fixes the issue.
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Are you sure you’re changing the comp’s frame rate and not reinterpreting the footage? Doing the latter will affect speed. Though, in fact, halving the frame rate should slow the playback speed rather than speed it up, so I’m stumped.
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-0.5db is very close to 0, so you’re not likely to hear much difference. Turn it way down to -50 and you’ll be getting closer.
However, I don’t think I would be the only user of this forum to suggest you don’t work with sound in AE. Not only is it cumbersome and difficult to do, AE doesn’t deal with sound very well, expecially compressed sound.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Richard. Unfortunately, resetting the workspace simply resets the position of the panels etc, and doesn’t affect the presence / absence of the Windows title bar.
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I don’t think the null thing would work for stabilisation, though I may be wrong.
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Andrew Kramer has a couple of tuts on this topic. However, they’re not quick and simple. They look good though.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=92
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=93Simon Bonner
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I haven’t tried to do something exactly like this, but I did create a menu where the highlighting (officially known as a ‘subpicture’) was not one of those horrible, semi-transparent shapes, but instead a black box that surrounded the button. You could do something similar. For example, make an image that fits in the correct place on your menu (could be the name of the place the button takes you to) and set this as the button’s subpicture. It will appear when the button is selected but otherwise be invisible. Search in the help files for subpicture and you should be onto a winner.
Simon Bonner
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