Simon Bonner
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Search for ‘wiggle’ in AE help files. Or Aharon has some intro tutorials in the AE podcast section.
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The raw footage is 540 * 1080? That’s an unusual size for a camera to output. Am I understanding correctly that the image is 540 wide by 1080 high? HDTV has a height of 1080, but the width would be 1440, 1280 or 1920. NTSC D1 square pixel would have a height of 540…
I’m wondering which it is because it may be that you are using non-square pixels in your raw footage. In your project panel, select the raw footage and take a look at the info displayed at the top of the panel. It will give the file’s name, then below information on dimensions and pixel aspect ratio, e.g. 1280 x 720 (1.0). Check that AE is interpreting your footage correctly. That is, it’s recognised the footage dimensions and aspect ratio and provided the correct figures. If it hasn’t, select the asset and hit cntl+f to open the interpret footage dialogue box and change the necessary settings.
In your comp, did you rescale or modify your raw footage in any way? A lot of people, when they start to use AE, make a comp from a non-square pixel asset and don’t understand why it looks horizontally squashed, so they stretch it until it looks right. Then when they render it, it looks bad! The reason the display looks squashed is because AE displays non-square pixels as though they were square by default. You can check what the output will look like by toggling the “toggle pixel aspect ratio correction” switch, which you can find on the bottom of the composition window, towards the right (the box with the arrow above it). I don’t know if this is your problem as I don’t know if / how you’ve modified your footage.
Anyway, as I said earlier, I imagine FLV will work best with square pixels. Even if your raw footage is non-square, you can still add it to a square pixel comp and it will work. AE will just crop the edges of the footage.
Other than that, I’m stuck. If you post a link to the vid itself, assuming it’s live, that may help more.
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Hi Reynand,
The order of the FX is important because the FX at the top of the stack are applied to the solid first (it may look like the effects are being applied to each other, but this is not the case).
If you want FX to be independent, you’ll have to apply them to independent layers. It might be a pain to have lots of grey solids, but that’s the only way to separate out the FX.
Depending on what you want to achieve, you could have several solid layers for particle FX and then add an adjustment layer on top of the layer stack and add to this your glow effect (assuming you don’t want different settings of glow for each particle layer – if you do, it’s back to adding a new glow effect to each solid).
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Hi,
You don’t necessarily “need” flash (I’ve made flv videos with AE that work fine, and have never even set eyes on flash), so that isn’t the real problem here.
I would need to know more details about your problem. As I understand it, you have discovered the dimensions your video must be (350 * 392) and have resized your comp to match, so that is no longer the problem. You are now experiencing some kind of distortion in your video. I’m not sure what you mean by “figures” (people?) and by “half the size of the flash screen”: are they stretched somehow, or is the video undistorted and just takes up a small space in the browser?
As I’m not sure what’s going on, it’s difficult to say what needs to be done. I assume you’ve changed the video dimensions – did you change them in the render queue somehow, or are you changing them in the comp settings (selecting the comp in the project panel and hitting cntl+k, altering the dimensions, selecting ok, then right clicking on the video in the composition panel, choosing transform from the context menu, and hitting “fit to comp width/height” to scale the video up/down to fit the new dimensions)? Also, what were the original dimensions?
Another possibility might (and I stress ‘might’, as I’m not an expert in how the flv format works) be that you are using composition settings with non-square pixels (the type of pixels that are used in tv). Try setting them to square pixels (the kind used in computer monitors). That may – or may not – help.
Perhaps you could also post your prof’s code too?
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I’m not as experienced as Dave, but I think he means CyCore. Unless CyCore used to be called Canoa during the 6.5 era, that is…
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I can’t see why it might be “shrinking”, as you call it (I assume you mean it’s displayed with reduced dimensions?). Take a look at the code used by the website to display the video – you may need to modify it so the specified width and height match the dimensions of your video.
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Well, you could copy and paste the section you want into a new Prem timeline and then just import this one timeline into AE. It’ll import all your assets too, even the ones that aren’t in your selected timeline, but you can just delete them or ignore them in the project panel and work on the comp representing the timeline.
If you want to import an edited clip, edit it in premiere and then import the timeline into AE. It will import the unedited asset (the video file itself) and also a new composition which will contain the edited file – double click on it in the project panel to open it up.
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If you mean, “Can I put two piece of footage on the same layer if they are both ‘made from’ the same video asset?” that’s a no I’m afraid. If you’re asking about what can be precomposed, anything can. Any number of layers: doesn’t matter that they are. This answer your question?
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Firstly, I’ve not read either of these books, so take this with a pinch of salt. I would say return the Meyer book as it appears (from the title) to teach motion graphics only. The classroom in a book title will show you how to create motion graphics (e.g. moving text) and visual effects (e.g. compositing). Then again, if you’re not into VFX you could stick with the Meyer book.
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Hi Idan,
Unfortunately you can’t place more than one footage item in each layer in AE. That frustrated me too when I first moved over from Premiere, but you get used to it. If you want to neaten up your timeline panel, you can precompose the two different layers and that will put them in a single comp of their own that will be on a single layer (select both and hit cntl+alt+c)
Simon Bonner
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