Steve Roberts
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You could try this:
1. Add markers (* on the numeric keypad) to the footage layer, indicating where each footstep occurs
2. Apply time remapping to your “single-footstep” audio layer.
3. Extend the out-point of the audio layer to the end of the comp.
4. Convert the second keyframe to a hold keyframe (right-click on the keyframe and select “toggle hold keyframe”)
5. Move one frame to the right and scrub the time-remap value (drag the value with the mouse) so it reads 0. This will “rewind” the playback of your sound to the beginning.
6. Select these 3 keyframes and Copy them.
7. Move to the next frame where the footstep occurs and Paste the 3 keyframes. Do a RAM preview to test.
8. If it works, go ahead and Paste the 3 keyframes where each footstep occurs (at each marker).I just tried this, so it works. 🙂
If the footstep sound is too long for the time available between footsteps, you may need to create 2 footstep audio layers: one for the left foot, and one for the right foot.
Good luck, and Happy New Year!
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Whatever internal card has the Firewire port on it (on the computer) should be OHCI-compliant.
From the AE help:
“You can preview the contents of your Layer, Footage, or Composition window on an external video monitor if you have a third-party device that facilitates this feature, such as a video digitizing card or a FireWire port (Mac OS). After Effects 6.5 also supports this feature on Windows OHCI cards. Set the Video Preview preferences to identify the device After Effects uses to display output and to specify the type of previews to display on the device.”I don’t know if your card is OHCI-compliant — you’d have to check the computer’s (or card’s) documentation.
Steve
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Nope — I mean the hardware inside the computer that has the Firewire (iLink, IEEE1394)port attached to it. Sounds like the Pyro card.
Steve
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Have you tried rendering to a different codec? Animation, TGA, then re-rendering to PJPEG?
Photo-JPEG at a different quality setting?
Playing the movie on a different hard drive?
Sliding everything 2 seconds to the right to make a longer movie, then trimming off the extra in QT Player?Steve
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Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and buy and learn a real 3D application to do this sort of thing. (or hire someone) I believe that many of those apps have hair and fur generators (possibly as plugins) that can be used to simulate grass.
Steve
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May all your friends ask you, “what are you smiling about?”
Happy New year!
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May all your friends ask you, “what are you smiling about?”
Happy New year!
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I’m with Thomas — maybe your DV card isn’t compliant?
If you suspect the deck, why not hook up a camcorder for a test?
Steve
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Intermediate codecs (when making movies to be further altered in another application):
– Quicktime Animation
– Quicktime Photo-JPEG (when disk space is short)
– Microcosm (from DigitalAnarchy – when you need 16-bitperchannel)
– Targa/Tiff/Pict stills (when the render may be slow and you want to use two instances of AE to speed it up)(or when the editing app prefers TGAs)
– Whatever codec the editor wants (Avid meridien, for example)
– The relevant hardware codec if you have a video I/O card (e.g. Blackmagic 8-bit “uncompressed” for the Decklink cards)Delivery codecs (the final codec for playback to tape or by the end user):
– The relevant hardware codecs for playback to tape deck (e.g. Blackmagic)
– DV
– Quicktime Sorenson Pro
– Windows Media (can only be created on Windows?)Anybody else?
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Firewire preview for Windows was added to recent versions of AE, starting with 6.5, I think. Echo Fire was necessary before that.
Steve