Simon Bonner
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Andrew Kramer has a preset on videocopilot.net called “bloom” which I think is what you’re looking for.
I would suggest you use this transition sparingly though, as it is becoming VERY overused on US TV, and has recently started to make an appearance here in the UK. To me, it’s the star wipe of the early 21st century 😉
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Why not draw a mask over the letterbox on a new solid? Then you could use the solid as an alpha matte for a precomp where you could put your letters.
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So you want to wiggle on just one dimension – x, y, or z? Or combinations of the three?
You need to add an expression to the position property of the layer. In case you don’t know how to do that: select the layer in the timeline, hit P, hold down Alt and click on the stopwatch. A textbox will appear in the timeline. Into this box type:
w = wiggle(2,25);
[value[0],value[1],value[2]]The first line says to create a variable called w, and then add to this variable a wiggle that occurs 2 times a second and is 25 pixels in size.
The second line says to define dimensions 0, 1 and 2 (which relate to x, y and z – you have to say 0 1 2 instead of x y z for some reason) as ‘value’. Value just means, use the property that existed before the expression was added. So if your x (or 0) value was 325, using value will leave it as 325.
Seeing as 0, 1 and 2 are all defined as value, this expression won’t do anything! What you have to do once you’ve added it to your position property is exchange one or more of the ‘value’s with w. Then 0, 1 or 2 will wiggle according to the w.
If you want two dimensions to wiggle in different ways (more / less frequently, more / less strongly), add more variables on the second and third lines, e.g.
x = wiggle(2,25);
y = wiggle(10,50);
z = wiggle(3,300);
[x[0],y[1],z[2]]Hope this is what you’re looking for.
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Hi Mats,
It sounds like you want it to ‘boil’. Boiling makes otherwise stationary objects look like they’re moving and can make animation more dynamic, but it’s essentially an artefact. The easiest wasy to achieve it is to draw two or three versions of the same picture and then play them one after the other (2 – 3 frames each, or you can experiment to see what works best). Because your pen will be slightly off target each time, the lines that make up the drawing will appear to move, or ‘boil’.
To achieve this in AE, import your 2 or 3 frames as an image sequence and then use the interpret footage dialogue box (I think this is where the option is) to loop the sequence as many times as necessary (I usually just give it a very high number). Then when you drag the layer out in the timeline, it will continually boil.
Hope this is what you mean.
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Hi David,
If it’s a woman speaking and sitting, I suppose the best thing to have done would have been to use a tripod. Obviously this is no use now, but stabilisation is somewhat of a last resort to be used only when you need to go handheld.
Stabilising to a fixed point may make it look a bit artificial aswell, so you may find Andrew Kramer’s recent tutorial on stabilising footage (and getting a little bit of the shake back) useful – videocopilot.net.
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I don’t know about poser, surely then it will look very “cheap cgi”. I’ve used Aharon’s method and can confirm that using black eyeliner around the contours of the nose and mouth really helps. We also filmed on greenscreen and used the keyed version of the original footage to matte out the all white background that we would otherwise have been left with after the cartoonification process. Having said that, this Nokia vid looks like it has been rotoscoped by hand a la Snow White. If your vid isn’t too long and you slow it down to about 10-12 fps, this might be an idea. If you can be bothered that is – chances are I wouldn’t be…
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Encore is Adobe’s DVD authoring programme. In CS2 you could purchase it separately. It currently ships with Premiere Pro CS3 (you can’t get it separately).
You can also render straight to DVD from Premiere, assuming you have that.
Or you can just use whatever DVD authoring programme you were intending to use!
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No problem, hope that works for you. I was making the same mistake myself a year ago… Now I usually work with the toggle switched on the whole time.
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Just to reinterate what Dave said, CC effects only come preinstalled with AECS3: previous versions require a separate installation.
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I would agree with Jeremy. The animation codec is an ‘intermediate’ codec. It preserves quality, but is pretty much unplayable on most systems. Compress a version for final delivery. If you’re making a DVD, import the QT animation into the project and let Encore compress it to mpeg. It definitely isn’t anything to do with playing the video multiple times – playing a clip doesn’t change the data it’s made from.
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