Steve Roberts
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Indeed.
The problem with diff keying (aside from noise) arises when FG and BG show areas of the same color … which is usually around grays and browns.
Is there any way you can mess with levels & color correction on the footage to pull out any colors that might be similar between the two? (applying the same effect to the clip with talent and the clip without). Then you key, then use the keyed footage as an alpha matte.It might work …
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… and if the computer crashes mid-render (perish the thought), you only need to re-render the missing frames in the image sequence. Just a thought.
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Well … from a compositing standpoint, a few minutes is rather long. We generally deal in short form (under a minute), or work with shots of a few seconds at a time.
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Did you search the COW for “fluorescent”?
(note the “uo” spelling.)
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Sometimes an agency acts as intermediary. For our UK spots, Pearl & Dean was the contact — they gave us the specs. On the audio side, they were very stringent Dolby specs, which have relaxed somewhat since then. On the picture side, SD PAL DigiBeta was the spec, believe it or not. It didn’t look as horrible on the big screen as we thought, but we do hope they ask for HD on the next one.
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[Padraic Culham] “… I’ve not had much luck rendering out a DVCProHD QT from AE …”
Same here. If the final has to be DVCProHD, I render out of AE to something like Animation then let QT Pro compress it to DVCProHD.
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Back in the day …
… we used to make all kinds of sacrifices to preview our work. 160×120, quarter res, effects switched off, layers switched off and so on. In recent years, faster processors and more RAM have allowed us to preview more complete comps at higher res, so those sacrifices aren’t as necessary.
Except for one. With really heavy comps, I only preview part of the comp while I’m working. I delay a full-length preview until I expect to go to lunch or something, or when I’ve previewed all the parts and want to see the whole. Previewing the whole, with a heavy comp, is still a bit of a luxury.
And what Dave said.
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There comes a time when a young AE artist’s fancy turns to thoughts of Cinema 4D. 🙂
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If the Freeform layer has to be 2D (with 3D cube left unchecked) then I’d say it’s like all of AE’s other 3D effects.
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