[Stephen Pickering]

Thank you. I’ll try the 1 frame trick. That’s what was frustrating me- waiting for a full video only to find that the character is now wearing a plastic sleeve andd tattoos all over.

[Stephen Pickering]

I appreciate your help on this. Unfortunately, I’m getting very unreliable generations, even following your prompt exactly. I’m using the cloud version. Here’s one of the examples:

[Stephen Pickering]

I really appreciate it. I’m watching the tutorial right now!

[Stephen Pickering]

Hey John, that looks great. Ideally I would like it centered on the hand, but I’d love to know how you’re doing it. Thank you!

[Stephen Pickering]

Yes, that’s exactly it. I want to have writing on his palm, but I need to be able to modify the writing. My thought was to track it, then I have a pre-comp with the writing that I can modify as needed.

Here’s the file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXsO425KN-0XxeDG0hopLEHT151c9SVJ/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for any suggestions!

drive.google.com

hand open.mov

hand open.mov

[Stephen Pickering]

[Stephen Pickering]

I was so excited to hear about this but unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it to run on our windows machines.

I haven’t given up on this but I don’t hold out much hope for it at the moment. It sounds like it’s still experimental on Windows.

I hope I can get it working because this would be incredible to use for certain rough edits. Thanks for sharing the info on it!

[Stephen Pickering]

That’s a great idea, Mark. I never thought about Facebook and didn’t realize it was that easy to download from.

I haven’t finished the Google form yet and was disappointed to find that it’s not quite as secure as I hoped if not within the domain of the receivers (ie, the school district), so it’s an extra hoop for the district to publish the form, but I think it’s going to work out. I’ll let you know!

[Stephen Pickering]

Hi Mike,

I appreciate you getting back to me. We think we’re onto a solution using Google Forms. We are still testing the idea, but it looks like it will work out perfectly for us. If it does work, I’ll share more. But basically, it’s a form that requires the user to be signed in using their Gmail account. The form has several options for uploads, including video (with a size limit) and images. These get uploaded to our Google Drive folder and Forms automatically adds the uploader’s name to the file name (which can later be rearranged as needed using “Bulk Rename Utility”). The form sends all form data to a Google Sheet that we can then identify (automatically) which users have submitted files (and which of the options they submitted) as well as which have not replied.

There are still some hiccups we’re working out, but learning about Google Forms has been a lot of fun, and when we’re done I think this will be an absolutely perfect solution… but we’ll see!

Thank you again,
-Stephen

[Stephen Pickering]

[Kalleheikki Kannisto] “Here’s a link to a fairly convoluted solution for a similar situation, will need some adjustment for your needs. Haven’t tested in recent versions, don’t know it if works in CC2019.

https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=3341...”

Thanks so much for posting this. We’re trying it out now but have some other expressions going on which is a bit tricky.

Thank you again and I’ll update if I get it working the way we are hoping.

-Stephen