Spencer Tweed
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Agreed. Take a regular old bed sheet, layer it a few times, put it a few feet back and hit it with some light from behind. We’ve done several videos this way and it works great – just make sure to clip the white out with some color correction. I’d say this is way easier than shooting green screen or a real background.
If you shoot green screen you’ll create a LOT more work for yourself and it won’t look as good in the end.
– Spencer
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I can’t see your photo, but from what you say here I’d use Keylight. The spill suppressor on that is… extreme – but if you know what you’re doing it’ll do the best job you’ll get without 3rd party tools.
To make it not change your alpha channel set the “clip white” to 1 and up the “screen shrink/grow” to something like 10 or so. Then for most projects you’ll want to change the “Replace Method” to “Hard Colour.” Lastly change your “Replace Colour” to something that fits your image.
– Spencer
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Wow! What kind of disk is your performance cache on? And what GPU do you have?
– Spencer
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I’ve got a mac but I do all of my work on a PC – do you know how to convert it to work on Windows if I write in Xcode? From the documentation it sounds like it shouldn’t be too difficult…
– Spencer
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Bummer.. Ah well, makes sense.
– Spencer
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I’ll not only make lots of notes for myself, I think I’m going to put together a step-by-step once I get this all figured out!
Unfortunately I don’t have Visual Studio and can’t quite justify buying it right now – I was in school when I was last using it and got all MSDN software for free. But alas that computer crashed a few years ago and I formatted it :'(
Is it naive to think that there’s some form of free IDE that’ll work for me? (Like I said, I’m really just a beginner here…)
– Spencer
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I see on the scripting approach. At that point I guess it would be like an advanced preset… Though I guess it could do the trick I’d like to figure out how to actually code it.
Got it on the API. Do you think you could point me in the direction to get those working? I’ve been trying to find something around that just gives me the first few steps that I’m missing to get those sample plug-ins going. I know I’m able to figure out typing in the actual code, but I have absolutely no experience with all of the steps to just getting there. Sorry if that sounds a little helpless, just trying to figure out where to start here…
(I have been looking through the documentation that Adobe provides – which seem geared to the total professional programmer who has already written thousands of plug-ins… Not much guidance there.)
Thanks for spending the time to answer my Q’s btw!
– Spencer
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Hm, I just had an idea (and this is said with no concept of what it would take to do this). Do you think anyone will whack together a program that is able to “convert” PB plug-ins to C++ or some sort of equivalent? It doesn’t seem too far-fetched, considering some people have put a lot of time and work into some of these pixel bender codes…
– Spencer
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Hey Dan,
I’m aware of the learning curve of C++, I actually did a little bit of C++ a while ago. But mostly I’ve messed around with C#, HTML, and of course AE’s expressions. What I’m trying to figure out is just how to break into that learning curve. All I need to know is how to get my foot in the door with AE’s SDK and I’m sure I can figure out the rest.
If I go the script route, do you think AE’s scripting language will support what I want? I didn’t know that you really had the temporal dimension in scripting – so how would I be able to apply my settings to all frames?
– Spencer
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Looks great! As you said, the tracking needs work. But that’s all I see to fix in the shot!
– Spencer