[Stephen Pickering]

How do I go about getting out of “moderated mode”? I posted my video clip yesterday along with a link to my project file and neither are being published. I assume I am in moderated mode because I am pretty new to the forums…
Thanks,
Stephen

[Stephen Pickering]

“The footage to be projected can be set up to act like a real projection that way, and it should naturally warp in the correct manner as it plays across 3D solids texture-mapped with photos from the real buildings. Certainly you can create a still photo to act like a lighting “gel” in Lightwave, and then project that onto surfaces. They do this with stained glass window effects in CGI church models and the like, all the time. The only difference here would be to do it with motion footage, though if it was perhaps a still image sequence of targa stills, you get the effect of both. ”

That’s a great idea but unfortunately my 3D skills are not adequate to accomplish this… I am able to project the image using “light transmission” in AE but I can’t seem to get it to distort onto 3d elements.

As I type this I realize the 3D environment I was trying to use was created using Andrew Kramer’s 3D projection tutorial (which created a 3d environment using solids but having an image mapped or “projected” to it. Since an image is already being projected that is probably why I cannot project my new image on top of it… I could try constructing a 3d environment in AE by just taking a photograph and chopping it up and using the actual photo (not solids with a photo being projected onto it) to create the actual 3D elements. With that said I fear this will get me in over my head and complicate the project more than I am able to handle…

[Stephen Pickering]

Thanks again for your input! I have not implemented any of your ideas yet but I’ll take another look at the project tonight and see where I can work on it. I have uploaded the project file here https://drywaterentertainment.com/misc/projection.zip. It has some elements I was practicing with from Video Copilot. I will upload a short render in a little while.
Thanks again!
-Stephen

[Stephen Pickering]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your quick response. I’ll take another look at it tonight after work and maybe get a clip online for some more help. I think scale was a huge part of it now that you mention it…

Thanks again,

Stephen

[Stephen Pickering]

Hi Vince, thanks for your reply. What do you mean by “tape record?” My understanding is that the videographer will be recording to DVCPRO tape and will be later digitized using a deck. On Location would be an option except that there will be both sitting interview footage as well as a lot of b-roll (outdoor, moving, etc) which will make it less ideal.
If it is being digitized using a deck I suppose I may be able to digitize directly to PPro on a laptop- how would the compression work with this? Would there be any advantage to digitizing to FC than to PPro?
Thank you again for your input, it’s really appreciated!
-Stephen

[Stephen Pickering]

I too have this error! I have tried removing all overides but I still get the error. is there any way to fix this error for good? Has anyone contacted Adobe yet? I’ll try them and see what happens.

[Stephen Pickering]

I found it. Under Project>Project Serrings>General.
Thanks.

[Stephen Pickering]

Thank you all for your replies.

The drives are not full and were defragmented prior to capturing. They are all 7200RPM. The timeline is only 1 hour (with 3 hours of source material) but it is also a multi-cam timeline.

It just seems like it has gotten slower and slower and I have not done too much more; a few edits here and there but it seemed like it used to go much faster even with this same project…

Thanks again,

-Stephen