Steve Roberts
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Check the sticky post at the top of the forum.
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Well, it’s like 3 frames or something, right? See if you can find some high-speed or strobe footage on the web, and you can use those frames as a guide, allowing for the slowdown.
Here, try this:
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I smell render failure. 🙂
Seriously, you might want to fake it with a NASA galaxy shot. Mask it around the stars and feather the mask. Dupe the layer, make the dupes 3D layers, and separate them all a bit in Z-space. Leave the middle layer’s mask alone, but shrink (negative expand) the mask on each of the layers on either side of it, so the mask gets smaller as you go out.
It’s like making a sphere using circle planes: the middle one is biggest, with the others getting progressively smaller as you go out.
This way you can fly into a galaxy and pass through layers of stars. Add a few stars in-between and near camera path for effect.
Give it a go …
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A lot of things in AE are like that, for example, effect names. Sometimes renaming can help keep a complex project straight.
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Hmph. I’ve checked the prefs file, and can’t seem to find an entry for that sort of thing. Sorry.
Have you asked at aenhancers.com? They’re scriptish folk there.
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Not AE. You might have to choose a specific install folder, but usually AE creates its own such as “After Effects 7”. No worries. When I was on Windows, I had multiple versions on the drive all the time.
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You could modify the structure in the Project window before collecting … ? AE follows that structure.
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In the past, you were technically able to run the old software, but under an unsupported license. Or something.
At any rate, no matter what we say, you’ll still have to call Adobe. Take note of the name or employee number (whatever) of the person to whom you speak. Their fulfilment department has been known to forget previous conversations.
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You’ll need to buy and learn a 3D app for that, since those requirements are beyond AE’s abilities.
If it’s a job, you should hire somebody who can use a 3D app.
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Excellent.
Roto is an art, and it doesn’t have to be a total pain. The worst case would be an amorphous flowing blob, or a dancer wearing a big flowing cape. But a lot of things have shapes whose motion can be predicted and masked with minimal keyframes and vertices once we learn to study the motion and draw efficiently.