Steve Renard
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First, read at least the basics in the AE manual.
Second, put your AI file in the timeline, press the S-key (which will bring up the “scale” property), and adjust the scale as appropriate.
Finally, if the manual doesn’t do it for you, check out any number of places on the web (starting with Creative Cow) that go through the basics of how to work in AE.
Good luck,
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I’m not a Premiere user (I use FCP and DVD Studio), but in all my experience making DVDs and using AE, I’ve never come across something like that where AE was the variable. Are you dropping your AE elements straight into the Premiere timeline, or rendering them first? I suppose something along those lines might confuse Premiere when it sends the file out to Encore… Also, is it JUST the AE sections that appear full screen, or the whole movie on the disc?
If you’re dropping the AE stuff straight into Premiere’s timeline, try rendering it out first and see if that solves the problem. Otherwise I’d say look for settings in Encore that are doing something strange for you.
I highly doubt this is an AE problem, but perhaps there’s a Premiere expert out there who will disagree with me.
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Hi Will,
If you’re new to AE creating fire like that will be a bit project, but I’d suggest starting with the Trapcode Particular plugin, using smokelets for your particles, and messing with the color to get the look right. Then use the velocity and physics settings to adjust for the look you want in terms of the motion. You could also try some of the presets that they package along with it, and use those as a starting point.
Good luck!
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You should be able to do a reflection of the bars by duplicating the elements and using expressions to move them in relation to the originals. Or, a simpler way to do it is to do the animation on the bars then pre-comp them, then make that comp a 3D layer and rotate it into the position that you want. I’m just talking through this as I think about it and haven’t tried it, but that should work. I’ve used the expression route before with great results, though, and I’ve also had luck with parenting for reflections, but only when the object is a fixed distance away from the reflective surface.
Good luck,
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I agree with Dave on all but the need to avoid DV footage. Using AE and the Keylight plugin you can get quite good results keying even DV footage. I’m like a broken record today about tutorials, but check out Andrew Kramer’s tutorials at videocopilot.net for some excellent green screen techniques that you can use with DV footage.
Steve
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Did you shoot your actors over the background, or over a keyable background such as a green screen? I’d like to be able to help you, but I don’t know if you’ve provided enough information here. It sounds like you want to key them into another piece of footage, but unless you shot them on a keyable background you’re definitely barking up the wrong tree…
Please post more information (stills or example videos are always helpful) and I’ll do my best to help you. Also check out the tutorials at videocopilot.net and/or the Creative Cow AE podcast to see if one of them shows how to do something like what you’re trying to do.
Steve
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Hey Aharon,
Clearly I’m behind the times, but good luck man! I will miss you on the podcast, but I can certainly understand where you’re at – my wife and I had our first in September and it’s incredible how much time the little buggers take up… 🙂
Good luck to you and your wife, and I hope you find success in your work and with your family.
Steve Renard
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No problem. Don’t you hate it when it’s something silly like that? I wouldn’t have known what it was unless I had run into the same thing on the first version of AE that had that feature (7, maybe?) and I was looking at my stuff saying “Why does the text look like crap???”
As a point of procedure, though, keep in mind that even though it looks rough in the preview, it WILL render clean in the final output. Not sure why AE can’t handle the pixel aspect issue better, but there you are…
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Best I’ve got is to cut your number of particles by, say, 20%, then duplicate it four times and colorize each layer. I’m sure someone cleverer than me has a more elegant solution to this, but I hope it helps for now!
Steve
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